Christopher Leger

Intellectual Property, Individual Rights, and Technology

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DNS hijacking by your ISP

August 28th, 2008 · No Comments

Listening to the current episode of security now, I heard a very disturbing story from a listener. This listener is a Charter Communications ISP customer, and put OpenDNS into his router for his DNS server. He did this to patch the huge DNS security flaw that many ISPs are reticent to fix (including Charter). However, [...]

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Tags: FCC · Internet Security · Politics · Technology Policy · cable · networks

safer online banking

February 7th, 2008 · No Comments

I became acutely aware of two factor authentication only after listening to a few episodes of Security Now. Two factor authentication takes the standard login and password that is ubiquitous on the internet and adds a second layer of security – something that you have on you. This is the exact system that ATM cards [...]

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Tags: Internet Security