I am retiring this social media account. Find me as @hal_pomeranz@infosec.exchange
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Back in that era the root name servers were actual physical machines. Our NASA project ran the root name server at the "Federal Internet eXchange West Coast" (FIX West) inside a secure building at Ames. In those days you could run a root name server on a Sun Sparcstation.
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I jobbed around quite a bit, and eventually ended up working at NASA Ames in the early 1990s. As part of the Network Operations group, I managed the DNS and also managed to melt down the entire network when my automation scripts produced broken zone files. That was a Bad Day.
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And that's how you start down the slippery slope of being the local email admin. You were stupid enough to volunteer and to care that things worked. Bell Labs was also the job that got me into Information Security. Fun times!
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Oh and we were replacing the old 9600 baud Datakit serial infrastructure with 10baseT (and in some cases 10base2) TCP/IP. The old-timers wanted to to UUCP over TCP/IP and I said "Hell no! Welcome to SMTP!" This was 1989.
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But all that experience with UUCP and Sendmail really helped out at my first job doing computer support at Bell Labs Holmdel. We were replacing Sys V VAX systems with these new Sun Sparc machines.
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When I became a student Sys Admin, my task was to get Sendmail working with out 1200 baud UUCP email feed (yep, no broadband Internet to our school in those days). Honestly, I couldn't do it and had to punt to one of the more senior admins.
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In 1986 I was attending a small liberal arts college that had a CS program with a single faculty position that was cross-listed with the math department. So the CS students got to run the small network of Sun3 machines.
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If you felt a strange disturbance in the Force it was just me finally turning off the email/DNS services that I've been running for decades. This is somewhat bittersweet for me, so hang on for some stream of consciousness storytelling about 30+ years of email management.
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I know COVID is on everybody’s minds right now but don’t neglect your other regular vaccinations. It’s flu vaccine time again, and this is particularly important for the immunocompromised.
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For those of you who have been missing it during the COVID crisis, this is what leadership looks like. Kudos to @strandjs and @WWHackinFest for making the tough call and doing the right thing. youtube.com/GZ__IuhDqyc
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Demonstrably false. Certainly the sex workers are not benefitting financially from losing their livelihoods.
Somebody is spending a lot of money lobbying to make the Internet hostile to sex workers. Who benefits financially from this?
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You do know what is right. Beware any person or group who tries to interfere with your personal moral compass. True mastery comes from within.
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My county in Florida is now offering booster COVID vaccines for the immunocompromised. While I’d like to see more of our population getting their first dose, this is good news for those that need it. seminolecountyfl.gov/departm…
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