Xblog

So, xman.org accidentally was left to expire. Any of you domain parkers out there will be disappointed to learn that I’ve now locked it away for the next decade. I kind of feel sorry for Network Solutions given how much spam must have been routed their way. I’m sure mail and other services will continue as per normal shortly.

It’s always cool when you are doing something that people feel is unconventional, and then you discover that one of the more respected minds out there basically thinks the same way. This was my happy discovery today as I read Bruce Schneier’s Steal This Wi-Fi, having gone through pretty much exactly the same thought process. I still find it truly bizarre to think of access to the Internet as the gatekeeper of sorts. The bottom line is that getting on to the Internet is trivially easy, even if your name is Osama Bin Laden. There network is just too large and too unregulated. The trick is limiting what unauthorized people can do once they are on the network.