February 2012
1 post
“The VeriSign attacks were revealed in a quarterly U.S. Securities and Exchange...”
– Schneier on Security: VeriSign Hacked, Successfully and Repeatedly, in 2010
January 2012
7 posts
“Because I’m - I’m worried that if I don’t go figure myself...”
– Garden State
“Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 1,955,376 tested so far.”
– Panopticlick
shit.
“But nature or not, you’re never gonna be happy if you go through life just...”
– Reasons of my Erasmus in the Questionable Content comic
“Something tells us Lot’s daughters would lose any drinking game centered...”
– The 6 Raunchiest, Most Depraved Sex Acts (From the Bible) | Cracked.com
WatchSanta Gets Hacked! (by Twist and Shout)
“Mentally decoding the missive, Blok realised it was spelling one facetious word,...”
– Dot-dash-diss: The gentleman hacker’s 1903 lulz
December 2011
7 posts
“This’ll refresh those terrorist bastards.”
– The Homeland Security Snow-Cone Machine - Lowering the Bar
“Two men are arrested, but the police do not possess enough information for a...”
– Prisoner’s dilemma
“Cui and Stolfo say they’ve reverse engineered software that controls...”
– Red Tape - Exclusive: Millions of printers open to devastating hack attack, researchers say
November 2011
9 posts
“Some hiring managers hate the idea of hiring interns. They see interns as...”
– Finding Great Developers - Joel on Software
“Because of their passionate embrace of (what they consider to be) the Right...”
– Weaknesses of the Hacker Personality
“You don’t touch an unknown switch on a computer without knowing what it...”
– A Story About ‘Magic’
“For those of you who like being heroic but don’t necessarily know or like...”
– xkcd store
“Your alternate domain list displayed ‘gmail.com’!
Hi Fred, no it...”
– Mailinator(tm) Blog
“Before we go any further, allow us to congratulate you on your browser-based...”
– GRC’s | UHE PRNG Demo
“The noise which my neighbours possibly mistook for a dog in the apartment is...”
– The ducks in the bathroom are not mine.
$ dd if=/dev/scd0 of=cdimage.iso # NO!
$ cat /dev/scd0 > cdimage.iso # NO!
As you are probably thinking, the problem with the two commands above, is that they provide no error checking while building the image.
[..]Thankfully, there is a better way, one which handles the checksum while doing the copy. You want to use readom(1) (“read optical media”) from the wodim(1) (“write optical disk media”) package. Consider the following command:
$ readom dev=/dev/scd0 f=cdimage.iso # YES!
October 2011
5 posts
“Max is a 24 year old law student from Vienna with a flair for the interview and...”
– IdentityBlog - Digital Identity, Privacy, and the Internet’s Missing Identity Layer
“The largest European hacker club, “Chaos Computer Club” (CCC), has...”
– CCC | Chaos Computer Club analyzes government malware
“I am quite speechless right now. Justin Case and I have spent all day together...”
– Massive Security Vulnerability In HTC Android Devices (EVO 3D, 4G, Thunderbolt, Others) Exposes Phone Numbers, GPS, SMS, Emails Addresses, Much More
September 2011
6 posts
“And that’s the key to understanding this system. Don’t be fooled by...”
– I’ve Seen the Future, and It Has a Kill Switch
“What paperkey does
Due to metadata and redundancy, OpenPGP secret keys are...”
– Paperkey - an OpenPGP key archiver
Never say no to Panda! →
August 2011
3 posts
“The clever invention of 19th Century Morse code has a rather long and rich...”
– MorseMusic
“Blackriding is possible, albeit risky. Controllers are very frequent and often...”
– Hamburg - Hitchwiki: the Hitchhiker’s guide to Hitchhiking
“Be prepared to compete for apartments in attractive areas in town with well-paid...”
– Hamburg travel guide - Wikitravel
July 2011
6 posts
“You’re now chatting with a random stranger. Say hi!
Stranger: God bless...”
– Omegle MegaHAL chatterbot
“Skinnability cuts to the very heart of the MVC pattern. If your app isn’t...”
– Coding Horror: Understanding Model-View-Controller
“The resulting string of symbols[2] is used to train two 4th-order Markov models...”
– Jason Hutchens: how megahal works
“If you’re wondering about the name of this program, Marutukku is the...”
– The Idiot Savants’ Guide to Rubberhose
June 2011
7 posts
“I drafted a very short message (perhaps the first was too long?) and sent it to...”
– End of Privacy: Herding Firesheep in Starbucks - Dec. 14, 2010
Interesting fact: you can actually *give* people tools to protect themselves a bit more. I would have pointed them to HTTPS everywhere, which is somewhat useful mor most known websites, instead of just saluting them with a gentle...
“> The Empathy developers describe OTR as “Broken by design”...”
– [OTR-users] Support for Telepathy/Empathy
“3.4 Malleable encryption and forgeability
In off-the-record messaging, we’d...”
– Off The Record Communication (aka PGP STFU n00b)
“At first glance, this seems like a particularly dumb opening line of an article:...”
– Schneier on Security: Open-Source Software Feels Insecure