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Email I received from the ACLU this morning. Timely! Also attributed to Mr. Snowden - and I love this one: Hi David– Simple truths can change the world. Two years ago today, in a Hong Kong hotel room, three journalists and I waited nervously to…

I decided a while ago that I wanted to try a next-gen firewall.  So I recently acquired a small ARM-based PC with dual LAN interfaces, installed a disk in it and set to work getting Sophos Home UTM running. An old friend and co-worker of…

In an earlier post I wrote about the importance of charting the network. Since then, I did just that, as I mentioned, in LucidChart. Here are some of my impressions from doing that for my home network. I used LucidChart's 7-day free trial of the Pro…

A really important thing to do if you have more than three or four devices on your network, even your little home network, is to maintain an up-to-date network diagram.  You don't notice how your home network grows... you get some new toy and it…