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The USENIX Magazine

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Titles in blue are open to everyone. The others require USENIX membership until December 2006. All articles are in PDF format.

OPINION
Musings by Rik Farrow

Monoculture on the Back of the Envelope by Dan Geer

SECURITY
Secure Embedded Systems Need Microkernels by Gernot Heiser

Breaking the Ties That Bind: Application Isolation and Migration by Shaya Potter and Jason Nieh

Spying with Bots by Thorsten Holz

A Summary of Savvy Backbone Defense by Raven Alder

The Virtual Firewall by Vassilis Prevelakis

Linux vs. OpenBSD: A Firewall Performance Test by Massimiliano Adamo and Mauro Tablò

Using Memory Dumps in Digital Forensics by Sam Stover and Matt Dickerson

Using Version Control in System Administration by Luke Kanies

Writing Detection Signatures by Christopher Jordan (with Contributions from Jason Royes and Jesse Whyte)

Teaching Computer Security, Privacy, and Politics by Ming Chow

REVIEWS
Book Reviews Online Only! by Elizabeth Zwicky

USENIX NOTES
2006 Election for Board of Directors

Getting It Wrong by Peter H. Salus

USACO Team Brings Home the Gold by Rob Kolstad

Thanks to Our Volunteers by Ellie Young

Summary of USENIX Board of Directors Meetings by Ellie Young and Tara Mulligan

CONFERENCE REPORTS
14th USENIX Security Symposium