Neat. I found the following in my drafts. I thought I had lost it...

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I need to re-build my entire system. Someone broke in to colliertech.org and used the system to send huge amounts of spam. This cost my upstream provider a ton of money. I then misplaced my USB disk which contains a(n admittedly obscure) filesystem with my PGP key, colliertech.org's private root x.509 key and the same for my family.

I could assume that whoever found my usb disk would pass it on to a lost-and-found location without having torn it apart, figured out how to mount the filesystem, brute-forced the password out of the pgp key and x.509 keys, etc, etc. But I won't. I will now admit defeat and start over.

But first, I'm going to read chapter 19.34 of teh RCW, some books on intrusion detection and prevention, some docs on MAC, specifically SELinux as it pertains to Debian.

My mentor and owner/operator of the largest ISPs on the Kitsap Peninsula during the late 1990s said something about the incident that made me think. He said something to the tune of "you were trained better than that."

I don't know that I had ever been trained in security, other than during my stint at Security Portal... But I only worked on writing Perl code there... I was only tangentally associated with any security stuff...

So now I'm going to edumacate myself :)

WoLF PSORT: protein localization predictor

http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/gkm259v1?ijkey=7rAn6VnzAJbPKAO&keytype=ref

(please ignore the extra symbols in the following. I just copied and pasted from a different page to give a basic synopsis)

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WoLF PSORT: protein localization predictor
Paul Horton, Keun-Joon Park, Takeshi Obayashi, Naoya Fujita, Hajime Harada1, C.J. Adams-Collier and Kenta Nakai,

Computational Biology Research Center, AIST, Tokyo, Japan, 2Center for Genome Science, National Institute of Health, Korea Center for Disease Control & Prevention, 5 Nokbeon-Dong, Eunpyung-Gu, Seoul 122-701 Korea, 3Human Genome Center, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan and 4Collier Technologies, Everett, WA, USA

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: + 81-3-5449-5131; Fax: + 81-3-5449-5133; Email: knakai@ims.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Received January 30, 2007. Revised March 26, 2007. Accepted April 8, 2007.

WoLF PSORT is an extension of the PSORT II program for protein subcellular location prediction. WoLF PSORT converts protein amino acid sequences into numerical localization features; based on sorting signals, amino acid composition and functional motifs such as DNA-binding motifs. After conversion, a simple k-nearest neighbor classifier is used for prediction. Using html, the evidence for each prediction is shown in two ways: (i) a list of proteins of known localization with the most similar localization features to the query, and (ii) tables with detailed information about individual localization features. For convenience, sequence alignments of the query to similar proteins and links to UniProt and Gene Ontology are provided. Taken together, this information allows a user to understand the evidence (or lack thereof) behind the predictions made for particular proteins. WoLF PSORT is available at wolfpsort.org