Smartphones and location-tracking (Dilbert strip)

Reminds me of the iPhone & Andriod issue that made the news a while ago:iPhone: http://blogs.cisco.com/security/iphone-location-tracking-important-even-if-it-doesnt-matter-to-you/Android: https://github.com/packetlss/android-locdumpP.S.: No need to mention that I'm a DIlbert fan ;-)

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RA-Guard evasion and related vulnerabilities

I've just published two new IETF Internet-Drafts, that document the problem of RA-Guard evasion, and propose mitigations.They are two Internet-Drafts:IPv6 Router Advertisement Guard (RA-Guard) Evasion, available at: http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-gont-v6ops-ra-guard-evasion-00.txtSecurity Implications of…

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Why IPv6 won’t rid the Internet of Network Address Translation

SearchEnterpriseWAN.com has published an article entitled "Why IPv6 won't rid the Internet of Network Address Translation" that I have authored for them.The article begins with:Why IPv6 won't rid the Internet…

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Recommendations for Transport-Protocol Port Randomization (IETF RFC 6056)

Folks,Our document "Recommendations for Transport-Protocol Port Randomization" has just been published as IETF RFC 6056.The Abstract of the RFC is:During the last few years, awareness has been raised about a…

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