when is rains it pours.

A major flaw in cisco routers surfaced this week. By sending a carefully crafted packet, one can completely hang any cisco router/firewall/switch. To make matters worse, the exploit came out today which I think is the reason why I cant access half the sites out there. Took a crash course in cisco routers and cisco security in the last 2 days 🙁

Juniper has put up a nice set of Anti-cisco cartoons 😉

As for other stuff, someone really needs to shove a coconut up Microsoft’s ass.

First of all the Homeland Security Department has chosen Microsoft Corp. as its preferred supplier of desktop computer and server software. What the heck is wrong with them. When will they learn that diversity is important esp if you are the US gov.

Second, MS is giving away $1000 bucks an hour for MSN messenger users. What the fuck is wrong with them ? As someone on slashdot says, every msn users will get a pop-up next week saying “You’ve won $1000 in the MSN Messenger giveaway, just go this website and enter your SS# and credit card info for verification.”