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An Analysis of A NASA Dbase Hack-and-Dump

February 7, 2012 By
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[Editor's note: this analysis predates any official announcements by NASA] Recently, some news of a NASA hack-and-dump passed my twitter deck.  I decided after watching a few of my friends re-tweet the news that it might be worth checking out.  At least I'd see if I could perform some password analysis on any dumped credentials, or even test out the new Crucialpoint Cloudera Hadoop password cracker on any leftover hashes.  What follows is a … [Read more...]

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When do you pick HBase instead of MySQL?

January 24, 2011 By

Facebook works its data magic at scales others only dream of. And they do this for over 600,000,000 people, in real time!  (see: Facebook's New Real-Time Messaging System: HBase To Store 135+ Billion Messages A Month). Cade Metz just wrote a piece diving deeper into this at The Register. His article is titled "HBase: Shops swap MySQL for open source Google mimic."  This great reporting underscores something we already knew, that Facebook is a pioneer … [Read more...]

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Open Source for America: A resource for the Gov2.0 CTO

July 22, 2009 By

With this post I'd like to tell you a bit more about the coalition Open Source for America and why I believe it is so important for our collective future.  I would also like to encourage you to join this coalition yourself.   Whether you represent industry, academia, non-profit organizations or are an individual technologist this coalition needs your help and support. The coalition is designed to serve as a centralized resource for information on … [Read more...]

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What does the Oracle-Sun news mean for enterprise CTOs?

April 22, 2009 By

OK, sometimes I get emotionally attached to great technology.  I need to watch that, I know humans are what is important.  But science is cool too, and it gets really really exciting to watch great humans create and field great technologies.  That is why I have long been a fan of both Oracle and Sun.  I like many other powerhouse IT companies as well... but those are the two names dominating this week's news and it has been the topic of dozens of … [Read more...]

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Open Source Databases

March 5, 2009 By

All indications are the next significant growth segment for open source software will be in databases. This follows the trend of open source operating systems (Open Solaris and Linux). Two open source databases of note are Hadoop and MySQL. Hadoop is not for everyone. It is a very powerful open source software focused on highly scalable distributed computing. It implements the MapReduce distributing computing metaphor in use at some very large … [Read more...]

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