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Critical theory and the midwits that promote it are back in style.

Did not know that male's were the only employees that "schmooze". You learn something everyday.

True, but the packets in-flight can take different routes. If you have a machine on the switch, you know you've captured all the packets that were in-flight. This make it easier to break the encrypted packets.

It's a choice--everything in security is a risk-management assessment, but I'm surprised rsync.net was able to get so many security certifications with this setup.

Dumb switches will blast packets to all interfaces that are connected. If there's a machine on the switch that's in promiscuous mode, it can see all the packets on the local network (including the backups coming in from customers).

Managed switches typically have ACL support. I get the KISS principle, but this setup seems to be trading security for simplicity.

Debian GNU/kFreeBSD does the reverse. In my opinion, where Linux outshines FreeBSD is in hardware support.

WeWork has always seemed like a Ponzi scheme to me. This reinforces my theory.

I've been looking for something like this for a while. It's hard to break into FPGA design coming from a Software Engineering viewpoint, but I think it teaches how the machine REALLY works and can produce better Software developers.