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RSA - A day spent by the beach...sort of

Break out the tin foil hats, they're listening!

I suppose I shouldn't really be surprised by the news I read today. Honestly, I guess it's not surprise that washes over me when I read this sort of thing. It's more a feeling of deep seated dread. Dread, anger, and helplessness. It's the last of which that irritates me the most.

F5 FirePass makes the Front Page!

Network World has an article running on their front page right now talking about our plans to improve FirePass, our SSL VPN product here at F5.

The article discusses upgrading the capabilities of the systems so that they can handle up to 20,000 concurrent users. The reason this article is so cool to me is the part where they

Did you know?: RFID hacking is easy, widespread, and growing fast.

It's frightening how easy it is to steal someone's RFID information and duplicate it in minutes. In the example the article lists they're only stealing access to an office building. While losing computer equipment would be bad enough, imagine the implications of this easy, touch-free, nearly unnoticable theft to civilians in the non-tech arena. What happens when all Passports have RFID tags? How about Credit Cards? Car ignitions? Even the doors to your home? Now imagine that it's just as

Did you know?: RFID implants becoming common place. Surely it's Double-plus ungood.

The idea of inserting a trackable, constantly transmitting electronic device, which is non-upgradable, underneath my very epidermis, brings forth painful visages to which my mind's eye can only summon echoing shreaks of terror and unfathomable dread as a response.

iRules: Removing the "Server: BIGIP" header

Did you know: Someone's trying to "sanitize" suspicious traffic?

Critical applications being networked makes the network critical.

If you have a critical application being delivered over the network, then guess what...your network is now critical. Moreover, as this article and many before it go on to discuss, the network that these applications run on becomes more than just a delivery mechanism, it becomes part of the application itself.

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