NET SEND

So there I am, working in a department that repairs Nokia firewalls, Sequent servers, and a few other odds and ends. This was the first job I’d ever had where I had my own desktop space, in the bank corner of an old cleanroom (no longer used as such), and between me on the door …

The best-ever email

I had gotten my A+ certification and broke into IT! This was a pretty big deal because, and I kid you not, I got a pay raise of like a dollar an hour going into IT. Yes indeed, I was almost paying all my bills, and it was great. Newly married and newly a father …

I am fine with being graded, why?

Some years back I started a new gig working on a DoD contract providing technical support to a branch of the U.S. Military. I’d left a great job in IT to pursue a dream, the dream was short-lived, and I found that in the 6-months since I’d left my secure job the market had gotten …

Use Scapy to import, edit, and export a pcap – checksums win

I've spent time importing and editing pcap files in Scapy with partial success. It seemed I was missing some knowledge that had eluded me from the Scapy documentation site, as helpful as that resource is. An article I found helpful early on is @catalyst256's The Very Unoffical Dummies Guide To Scapy, specifically pages 21 and …

MCMS: SFDM prompt

In 1998 I worked at Micron Custom Manufacturing Services in Nampa, Idaho. My title was “Operator L1” and I worked on a literal assembly line where we built (from component level on the PCB, to assembling the chassis) Nokia firewalls, Extreme network equipment and similar products. In case you couldn’t tell from my title, yes, …