Hi! I'm PhoneBoy. Who am I? Glad you asked!
Long ago, when I didn't work for Check Point Software, this site used to be a well-visited FAQ site on the Check Point firewall products. Nowadays, I sit in my virtual office and write about what I'm interested in, which includes: computers, telecom, VoIP Service, mobile phones, and many other forms of shiny gadgets.
Some other projects I'm doing include: PhoneBoy's Security Theater, where I discuss computer and network security-related topics, and PhoneBoy Speaks, a daily podcast where I discuss whatever technology and security issues are on my mind.
If you happen to use a Virtual Private Server provider that utilizes SolusVM, an exploit was released for SolusVM, which in turn was widely exploited against a number of VPS providers. One of my websites was impacted by this, though my provider emailed more or less right away.
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A few topics tonight:
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The first computer I owned as a TRS-80 Model MC-10. The games I had for it were the ones I typed in from books like David H. Ahl’s Basic Computer Games, which has been brought back as an e-Book with the programs redone in Microsoft’s Small Basic, with a few of the examples available on Microsoft’s site. Maybe I can give this to my son and let him learn programming in a way similar to how I did.
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It’s Fathers Day in many countries around the world today. Unfortunately, my relationship with my father was not fantastic and I regret I did not take the opportunity to rectify that before he passed on.
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Reports are that Symantec is laying of 1700 people. I don’t believe that’s always the right answer.
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FreedomPop has an interesting proposition: a mobile hotspot that you buy once and it comes with 500MB of data every month for free. Their planned mobile phone service offering will be even more interesting: 500MB of data per month, unlimited texts, and 200 voice minutes per month for free.
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One of the things I like about the workflow I’ve built for this podcast is that I can easily try or use different tools. Someone suggested I give Recordium a shot on my iPhone, which I personally don’t think suits this purpose, but I could in a pinch, of course 
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