Jose Nazario

a 30-something technologist who used to be a biochemist. now i travel the world helping people secure their networks. all from ann arbor, mi.

here you'll find my blog, projects, pictures, my wiki, and much more. what you wont find is a strong set of design skills.

Recent Blog Posts

Corporate Blogging for Technical People

Here are some notes for technical teams when asked or encouraged to do blogging for their employer. Conversely, the notes can serve the marketing and web teams who ask their technical talent to begin blogging. This assumes the policy is to let the technical talent blog, and not someone who writes copy for marketing.

Do show a lot of enthusiasm for what you enjoy about your job
Do use the blog to highlight your teams work, the product, and its success
Do use the blog to highlight interesting uses of the product or service
Do write about what you love, it shows
Dont reveal customers unless specifically authorized to do so
Dont badmouth your competition

For marketing people

Do let your people speak with their own voice
Do let your team be enthusiastic about the products and services they're building
Dont edit more than you need to; invest in some good writing help if you need it, but keep their voice their own
Dont force them to write on certain subjects, let them blog on what they love

In short, blog your passions and successes. Don't treat the blog as an updatable glossy brochure. Good work will reflect well on the team.

[link] Tuesday, Aug 26, 2008 @ 04:34pm

lots of press

spent lots of time on the phone, on TV even (PBS, CNN, almost Fox) talking about the DDoS angle of the russia-georgia attacks.

[link] Saturday, Aug 23, 2008 @ 08:26pm

bug hunting: PAM SMB

more bug hunting via google codesearch. this one is in PAM_SMB. it doesn't appear to be a security bug.

not that pam_smb is now deprecated. thanks for Andrea at ocert for helping *finally* get me in touch with the pam_smb guys.

--- pam_smb_auth.c.orig 2006-10-05 14:33:14.000000000 -0400
+++ pam_smb_auth.c      2006-10-05 14:33:21.000000000 -0400
@@ -228,7 +228,7 @@
               error code for non-existant users -- alex */            if ( ( !pw->pw_passwd ) && ( !p ) )
-             if ( flags && PAM_DISALLOW_NULL_AUTHTOK )
+             if ( flags & PAM_DISALLOW_NULL_AUTHTOK )
                return PAM_SUCCESS;
            pp = crypt(p, salt);

[link] Tuesday, Apr 15, 2008 @ 10:36am

Recent Wiki Changes

wiki:cold_potato_salad on Thursday, Sep 04, 2008 @ 12:07pm
wiki:recipes on Thursday, Sep 04, 2008 @ 12:06pm
wiki:almond_cookies on Thursday, Sep 04, 2008 @ 12:06pm
wiki:recipes on Thursday, Sep 04, 2008 @ 12:05pm
wiki:peach_galettes on Thursday, Sep 04, 2008 @ 12:05pm
wiki:recipes on Thursday, Sep 04, 2008 @ 12:04pm
wiki:beef_beans_stir_fry on Thursday, Sep 04, 2008 @ 12:03pm
wiki:recipes on Thursday, Sep 04, 2008 @ 12:03pm
wiki:izmir_kofte on Thursday, Sep 04, 2008 @ 12:02pm
wiki:recipes on Thursday, Sep 04, 2008 @ 12:00pm