The lawyers for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority have just filed a motion asking for a modification of the terms, but not the duration, of the temporary restraining order [PDF] it won against the MIT students who had wanted to present a security paper at DEFCON on vulnerabilities in Boston transit cards.

Trend spotting: Microsoft uses the ultimate excuse to punish and exclude GNU/Linux.

Whether you are online or offline, freedom matters. Like good health you never think about it or miss it until it is under threat or actually gone. If you love freedom, you probably love free software and it has given us some terrific tools with which to defend freedom.

The guide will take you through the setup of the pfSense firewall with one WAN interface, one LAN interface and one Opt1-WiFi Interface. This guide was written for Linksys, Netgear, and D-link users with no firewall or router experience. No experience is needed with FreeBSD or GNU/Linux to install and run pfSense.

A few days ago i published a short article describing how Windows Vista would accept incorrect passwords at the login screen. Now, as if God/Microsoft her/himself had intervened, my Vista connected to the network, installed some unspecified update, and the password problem is solved. The weird thing is - Vista refuses to connect to my WLAN, so it shouldn't have been able to get any updates.

Part three of a five part post series on setting up Linux and Unix servers securely.

Part one of a five part post series on setting up Linux and Unix servers securely.