Happy IPv6 day

Are you ready for IPv6 Day?

Google has a handy little test to see if you are going to have any issues with the cut over.

For those of you that don't know about it, IPv6 day is the 24 hour test run for Google, Facebook, Yahoo!, Akamai and Limelight Networks and some of the major organizations that will offer their content over IPv6 for a 24-hour test period. The goal of the Test Day is to motivate organizations across the industry – ISPs, hardware makers, operating system vendors and web companies – to prepare their services for IPv6 to ensure a successful transition as IPv4 addresses run out.


You can read more about it on World IPv6 Day.

Alzheimers

Slashdot is running a story on a possible link between Alzheimers and sleep deprivation. The results as with all studies require additional studies, but if the plaques that from in the brain are linked with Alzheimers and the plaques build up faster when the protein identified are higher, and the protein is higher when you are awake it would give insight into a lifestyle prevention of Alzheimers.

New Scientist via Slashdot

Remote listening devices

Scary, probably true article from a few days ago about the ability to listen to the output of a keyboard (assuming ps/2) by tapping into the electrical grid nearby. In an office building I think that there is some deflection in that there is a solid chance that there are several people typing at any given moment, so it is likely to be a little harder to isolate one signal from another. Some of the Slashdot commenters pondered if this is what a few unfunded researchers where able to come up with just consider what the NSA would be able to to. I thought this dated article would help those people sleep at night. The Van Eck's effect is the rather interesting ability to use get the information from CRT's and LCD's. The Wikipedia Article about the Tempest project that investigated the phenomenon and tried to secure assets against it, has no information on the active use of this technology for intelligence gathering, but is interesting in its own right. Either way, it is an interesting extension of old research and just further illustrates the relative insecurity of computers.

Slashdot via Network World