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Want to get a BLOG that improve over time – and help the BLLG-system-creators improve their pride and joy?

A fine thing about Open Source tools is that one are able to help with debugging – making the world a tiny bit better each time. As a consequence of this, the 2.3-version of Wordpress contain a LOT of enhancements! This is the reason for this blog to be located at ketil.vestby.name, leaving vestby.name to other things.

Thanks to the Wordpress team, including the people developing the system, it is improving rapidly!

Tonight, I got a early copy of a book on firewalls, to read and review for No Starch Press. This got a solution for the problem described on this blog a few days ago: The tools for the script kiddies today are seriously heavy

The solution described in the book are elegant and simple: Combine different tools for network intrusion detection, with tools for network exploitation, and make them controle parts of the Iptables system (see the unreliable guides for more information about it, from the original head behind Iptables)

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Here is the receipt used to get rid of the spammers on this site:

The receipt is in three steps:

Remember to repeat the last two steps from time to time

Step one: Provoke

Provoke some garbage, by writing some comments about spammers. Make sure the comments are a bit rude

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