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  • Resources for Pan-Platform Computing
    • Open BSD
      A BSD licensed UNIX variation. I don't know any "real producers" open or commercial that are more passionate about security than these people:

      "The OpenBSD project produces a FREE, multi-platform 4.4BSD-based UNIX-like operating system. [Their] efforts emphasize portability, standardization, correctness, proactive security and integrated cryptography. OpenBSD supports binary emulation of most programs from SVR4 (Solaris), FreeBSD, Linux, BSD/OS, SunOS and HP-UX."

      I've done one install of this so far. It went smoothly, and I plan to do many more in the future.

    • Damn Small Linux
      A very small Linux that boots directly from CD.

    • Knoppix Linux Distribution
      Their tag line says it all: From zero to Linux in 5 minuites.

    • QEMU - Processor Emulator
      As per their About section... QEMU is a generic and open source processor emulator which achieves a good emulation speed by using dynamic translation. It also has a full system emulation mode that basically emulates and as such, virtualizes a full PC.

  • Education & Certification
  • System & User Support
  • Developer Stuff
    • A Tutorial On Character Code Issues
      This is the greatest wealth of introductory and advanced informaation we've found on this subject. Everything you've ever wanted to know about character codings such as Unicode, ASCII, EBCDIC utf-8, utf-7, Latin 1, ISO 8859-xx, and more. This resource even includes links to tables that map between various encodings.

    • QuirksMode.org - JavaScript & CSS Reference from PPK
      One of the best Web Developer and JavaScript pages around. It is maintained by freelance web developer extraordinaire Peter-Paul Koch In his words the site: contains more than 150 pages with CSS and JavaScript tips and tricks, and is one of the best sources on the WWW for studying and defeating browser incompatibilities.

    • Cool Computing Timelines
      This site provides very detailed timeline diagrams showing the histories of Unix/Linux, programming languages, and Windows.

    • REST (Representational State Transfer)
  • Security and vulnerability
    • GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG)
      Per their site: GnuPG is a complete and free replacement for PGP. Because it does not use the patented IDEA algorithm, it can be used without any restrictions. GnuPG is an RFC2440 (OpenPGP) compliant application.

    • US-CERT
      A primary U.S. Government site for all who are interested in network security vulnerabilities, incident handling, and reporting. Includes a way to report incidents. This is operated by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

    • CERT/CC
      A primary site for all who are interested in network security vulnerabilities, incident handling, and reporting.

    • SANS Internet Storm Center
      Analyses and references about software security, as well as alerts about current problems.

    • Semantec's Security Response Center
      Current information on known exploits, with links to vendor alerts, patches, and hotfixes.

    • Net Security Website
      Analyses include economic losses due to various malware infestations.

    • Hackerwatch
      Very nice visualizations of infestations and attacks can be found on this McAfee sponsored site.

  • Government/Compliance/Regulation (U.S.)
    • Thomas
      U.S. Legislative information on the Internet.

    • Judicial Watch (JudicialWatch.org)
      established in 1994 to serve as an ethical and legal "watchdog" over our government, legal, and judicial systems and to promote a return to ethics and morality in our nation's public life.

  • FUD and Stupid Marketing Tricks
    • Microsoft funding of security report decried
      Two participants in the study (Richard Ford of the Florida Inst. of Technology and Herbert Thompson of Security Inovations Inc.) didn't bother to report that MicroSoft funded the study when they gave the talk at RSA Conference.

    • Rotten Effort
      May 08, 2006 (Computerworld) Some bulls are determined to break a lot of china on their way down. How do you avoid the flying shards? I'd recommend getting as far away as possible, as quickly as possible. Here's a back road to one such place:

  • Copyright Protection/Anti-Plagiarism
    • Internet Infringement Protection
      Find plagiarized copies of your content on the Web. Many people use their creativity to produce useful and unique contributions. But then there are those who concentrate on finding clever and destructive ways to take credit for other people's contributions. This service helps you to find the latter. :-) You still have to go after them though...

  • Misc/Fun
  • Script Listing Sites





























 
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