The goal of the DNSSEC-Tools Project is “to create a set of software tools, patches, applications, wrappers, extensions, and plugins that will help ease the deployment of DNSSEC related technologies.” The project website is at:
A new and improved DNSSEC-check utility with a completely re-written GUI and support for a number of platforms including Android and Harmattan (N9) devices.
dnssec-nodes now parses unbound log files
dnssec-system-tray now parses unbound log files
rollerd
Added support for phase-specific commands in rollerd. This allows the zone operator to customize processing of the rollerd utility during different rollerd phases.
Added support for zone groups in rollerd. This allows a collection of zones to be controlled as a group, rather each of those zones individually.
Improved the manner in which rollerd indexes the zones being managed, with the significantly decreased access times for rollerd’s data files. This results in rollerd being able to support a lot more zones with a single rollerd instance.
rollctl and the rollover GUI programs may have new commands to allow for immediate termination of rollerd.
New DNSSEC-capable applications
Added a patch to enable DNSSEC validation in Qt based applications
Added patch to enable local validation in NTP, with the ability to handle a specific chicken and egg problem related to the interdependency between DNSSEC and an accurate system clock.
Validator library:
The library has been ported to the Android OS
Added support for hard-coding validator configuration information that gets used in the absence of other configuration data. This feature allows the validator library to be self-contained in environments where setting up configuration data at specific locations in the file system is not always feasible.
It’s very cool to see these new features added and we look forward to seeing what developers build with these new capabilities!
P.S. The DNSSEC-Tools project also seems to have a brand new Twitter account, @DNSSECTools, that could use some followers!
Oh, the scammers and spammers.... I was amused in today's normal haul of bogus comments across my various blogs to get this one:
If you’re willing to place a link to my client, <URL-deleted> with the anchor text “<client-name-deleted>” in one of your new articles then I will send you a one-time payment of $60 via PayPal.
<client-name-deleted> provides the best deals for <deleted> across the country. If you’re interested, please let me know the email address where you’d like me to send the PayPal payment and I will send it once you add the link.
I'd seen this type of message many times before, of course, but just deleted them as a matter of course.
This time, though, I picked up on "to my client".
One wonders, does the client understand the sleazy way in which this person is going about their work? Does the client even care? Are they just paying for "results"?
I do wonder, too, how many people out there just go ahead and accept the offer... hey, $60 can buy a bit and... "why not? They're just asking for a link!" Probably a number of folks... which then only leads to more messages like this...
P.S. And no, I've never taken money to put links in articles. And I certainly wouldn't for only $60. Now... add maybe 2 or 3 zeroes to that number and maybe I'd start considering it... ;-)
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The pain of her treatment is that felt by at least 1 in 8 women during their lifetime. Her scars on her chest are like those of my wife and so many other women for whom the "cure" involved radical changes to their bodies.
Her sense of betrayal is that of so many women.
It's not that the Susan G. Komen For The Cure organization can't choose who it wants to fund based on ideological/political reasons. It can. That is a perfectly valid way to run an organization and to choose who to fund.
But that's not what people signed up for.
It's not what they donated money for.
It's not what they ran or walked races for.
They donated/ran/walked/volunteered... FOR THE CURE.
There was never an asterisk on the "cure".
It was never "for the cure as long as said cure meets our ideological/political guidelines".
It was for the cure. Period. Full stop.
Perhaps it was naive to believe that no politics were involved, but people believed in the story of the Susan G. Komen For The Cure organization. They completely empathized with Nancy Brinker founding the organization based on a promise to her sister who died of breast cancer. They believed in the story. They supported the organization with their time, money and energy. They made the Komen organization the amazingly powerful force that that is today.
Sure, the Komen Board eventually reversed its position, which was pretty much guaranteed to satisfy almost no one. And certainly many people may be pleased at the departure of Komen VP Karen Handel.
But Komen has a far larger problem.
The proverbial curtain has been pulled back and Komen supporters are learning more about the organization that they have supported.
Regardless of how you may personally feel about embryonic stem cell research and whether you think it is should be pursued or whether you think it should be outlawed, this is another example of the politicization of Komen's grant-making.
It was for the cure. Period. Full stop. Never with an asterisk.
And more questions are being raised about Komen's methods, their choices, their staffing... and, well, pretty much everything about the organization.
And while there can be no doubt that the Komen organization has done a tremendous amount of work for breast cancer education and research (just look at the last few pages of their 2010 Form 990 to see all the many grants they've given), the question many of us (including my wife and I, who have been definite Komen supporters during my wife's ongoing fight with breast cancer) are now asking is:
Are they the right organization to whom to donate?
Can we trust Komen's leaders to truly put the "cure" above their personal politics?
Are there better organizations where we should focus our time, dollars and energy? Can our dollars be more effective going to organizations directly involved with research?
Komen's now lost the trust of the Linda's of the world who believed so strongly in the mission and purpose of the organization. Can they regain that trust? Maybe. Maybe not.
It was for the cure. Period. Full stop. Never with an asterisk.
The goal of the DNSSEC-Tools Project is “to create a set of software tools, patches, applications, wrappers, extensions, and plugins that will help ease the deployment of DNSSEC related technologies.” The project website is at:
