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Dan York
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Dec 29
FIR #788 – 12/29/14 – For Immediate Release
11th year of FIR begins next week; Quick News: TripAdvisor fined for fake reviews; Coca-Cola dumps voicemail, not all Facebook users want to review their year, tech companies oppose Marriott's Wi-Fi blocking plans; Ragan promo; News That Fits: influencers are burned out on influencer marketing, Dan York's Tech Report, measuring ad performance based on attention, Media Monitoring Minute from CustomScoop, listener comments, public shaming of leaders will become more common, Michael Netzley's Asia Report, Igloo Software promo, the last week on the FIR Podcast Network, how news outlets use Instagram to tell stories; music from Deleveled; and more.
Dec 29
FIR #788 – 12/29/14 – For Immediate Release
Quick News: TripAdvisor fined for fake reviews; Coca-Cola dumps voicemail, not all Facebook users want to review their year, tech companies oppose Marriott's Wi-Fi blocking plans; Ragan promo; News That Fits: influencers are burned out on influencer marketing, Dan York's Tech Report, measuring ad performance based on attention, Media Monitoring Minute from CustomScoop, listener comments, public shaming of leaders will become more common, Michael Netzley's Asia Report, Igloo Software promo, the last week on the FIR Podcast Network, how news outlets use Instagram to tell stories; music from Deleveled; and more.
Dec 29
ERNW Compares Penetration Testing Tools IPv6 Support
Which network security penetration testing tools support IPv6? What caveats should you know about the ones that do support IPv6?
Recently the team as security firm ERNW published their December 2014 newsletter with the headline “Penetration Testing Tools that (do not) Support IPv6” where they took a lengthy tour through a wide range of security tools to assess their IPv6 readiness. As they say in their introduction, their goals were to:
- Find out which of our favorite penetration testing tools can be used natively using IPv6 as an underlying layer-3 protocol.
- Find alternative solutions for the rest
They specifically only tested open source or free versions of commercial tools and did not test IPv6-specific tools. They were seeking to understand which of the commonly available current (IPv4) test tools also worked well with IPv6.
The bulk of the document (pages 9-51) consists of walk-throughs of exploration of each of the various tools in different categories. They examine the tool, provide screenshots in many cases and then state a conclusion about how well or not the tool supports IPv6.
What I personally found most useful was section 15, the Appendix, starting on page 56 that provided a table view with a list of all the tools tested and a quick summary of how well (or not) the tool supported IPv6.
If you are interested in security testing and specifically for IPv6 networks, this document is definitely worth a read!
And if you are new to IPv6 and want to learn more, please visit our Start Here page to find resources targeted at your role or type of organization.
Dec 28
Watching Live Curling At 65mph on I-91
Today was an amazing testament to the power of today's mobile Internet. We traveled to Connecticut today to visit some friends and family, but we also wanted to watch the live video stream of one of the youth in our Petersham Curling Club youth program playing in the national Playdowns up in Rochester, NY. So, while my wife drove I set up my iPhone as a personal hot spot and used my iPad to display the live video stream from the Playdowns.
It worked out great... and was just amazing to think about!
Some thoughts via audio:
https://soundcloud.com/danyork/tdyr-207-an-amazing-day-of-the
Dec 28
TDYR 207 – An Amazing Day of the Mobile Internet and Live Video Streams
TDYR 207 - An Amazing Day of the Mobile Internet and Live Video Streams by Dan York
Dec 28
Video – Making Sense Out Of An IPv6 Address
Looking to understand how IPv6 addresses are put together? Here’s a great video from Keith Barker that explains IPv6 addresses in a very easy-to-understand style:
And when you’re done watching, please head on over to our Start Here page to find resources about IPv6 tailored to your job role or type of company or organization…
Dec 28
Watching North Korea’s Internet Connectivity Go Up and Down Via Twitter (Featured Blog)
One thing I enjoy about following Dyn Research (formerly Renesys) on Twitter is that they provide quite interesting graphics and charts about Internet outages. They've been tracking North Korea's Internet access quite closely over the past week and their tweets have been quite enlightening. Back on December 22, for instance, DynResearch tweeted a chart showing a 9-hour, 31-minute outage... More...
Dec 27
Aswath Rao Says I’m Wrong About VoIP In India
India has NOT been a very friendly place for VoIP historically, and so we'll have to see what happens here...
In a series of tweets Aswath pointed out that the TRAI has in fact been very supportive of IP-to-IP VoIP services and has left them unregulated. The regulation has all been around VoIP services interconnecting to the Indian PSTN. Aswath's tweets: https://twitter.com/aswath/status/548681349344034818
You are mistaken when you say "India has NOT been a very friendly place for VoIP historically". And I have pted it out many times.https://twitter.com/aswath/status/548681697227980800
From the get go, TRAI has regulated only IP to Indian PSTN. IP/IP & IP to foreign PSTN have been unregulatedhttps://twitter.com/aswath/status/548687939862290432
My point is that TRAI has been very enlightened in its ruling. Even after 11/26 attack & pressure it has not reg IP/IP
Given that Aswath has been very involved in VoIP in India for many years, I'll defer to his opinion on this one.
Thanks, Aswath, for challenging me on this sentence.
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Dec 27
TDYR 206 – I Threw Over 100 Rocks At Houses Today
TDYR 206 - I Threw Over 100 Rocks At Houses Today by Dan York
