Acidus wrote:
Today I'm launching Zoompf, a new kind of web performance company. We don't deploy sensors, simulate user load, or monitor your application from data centers around the global. We don't try to answer the question "How fast are my web apps?" We answer the next logical and frankly more important question: "How do I make my web applications go faster?"

Great talk tonight at Phreaknic and best of luck on the venture! You've given me a lot of things to think about already.

RE: Zoompf: Or, Why I Left Security To Work On Web Performance

Acidus wrote:
Pretty Hate Machine is 20 years old.

... ... [sigh] ...

I was thinking the same thing about Space Quest III the other day.

RE: Feeling old

Acidus wrote:
Ran across an old document today at work. When SPI was purchased by HP a little over a year ago my boss had me compose a memo about why we needed completely unfiltered internet access. HP IT doesn't like us very much...

Nice writeup.

The main problem with unfiltered/unproxied access is logging/accountability. Passive URL monitoring via the IDS devices takes care of web logging and as long as the hosts are static/reserved DHCP and authenticated, there's your accountability too. Since you won't be getting authenticated proxy logs, you'll have to correlate auth and access logs.

It's a bit more work to accommodate the "problem children" but at the end of the day all the regulatory nuts and bolts are still effectively intact with that sort of monitoring system.

RE: Memo from Work

Acidus wrote:
If I hear one more sound bite about "Main street" and "Wall Street" I think I will literally go insane. Seriously, please, shut the hell up!

FOR REAL.

"Wall Street/Main Street" has overtaken "irregardless" on my lexical annoyances stack.

Can't we just send lenders who wrote these junk loans and mortgagees who bought them to forced labor camps for a while, use the free labor to temporarily overtake China's manufacturing prices, equalized the trade balance and dig out that way?

Accountability and book balancing handled in one fell swoop!

RE: At the corner of Main and Wall...

Acidus wrote:
See this. See this right. freaking. now. The awesomeness is... awesome.

Except for the contrived conclusion that seemed bolted on out of necessity more than anything (I'm thinking more along the lines of "huh huh, BatRadar, huh huh") I agree wholeheartedly. What a fucked up Joker! Mad mad mad

RE: The Dark Knight