Yearly Archives: 2013

The end of the Galaxy S3 phone

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I lusted, I acquired, I loved and, alas, I lost. The Galaxy S3 was quite the phone. Big and slightly curved. The second day I had it fell and the screen cracked but it still worked. Even when a splinter

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Internet privacy opinion after the NSA revelations

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Made me laugh   Transcript The Philosopher: Megan: “Privacy” is an impractical way to think about data in a digital world so unlike the one in which our soci– Ponytail: So bored. The Crypto Nut: Cueball: My data is safe behind

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The Adobe Source Code Breach

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It seems that a code breach bunch of people ran off with the Adobe Source Code. It is a disaster for the company not just for the IP theft but has sweeping security implications for all users of Adobe software —

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Paranoia deepens for security people as hardware trojans cloak

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I remember being back in college writing little trojans for windows and linux. Hardware trojans troubled one of my lecturers. He had been paranoid, for a great number of years, about the complexity of computer chips and during one such

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All configuration variables in Moodle code

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Ever wonder what configuration variables lie withing the moodle code? Well you have the config.php file but that only tells you a small fraction of the available configuration variables. Why might you need to know this? Well it is interesting

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Linus Torvalds responds to petition to remove RdRand from /dev/random

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Really funny petition at http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/linus-torvalds-remove-rdrand-from-dev-random-4 Linus’ reply: Where do I start a petition to raise the IQ and kernel knowledge of people? Guys, go read drivers/char/random.c. Then, learn about cryptography. Finally, come back here and admit to the world that

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Hello again

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Well here is the blog once again. This is the second blog at this domain, gl.ib.ly, the first one disappeared for unknown reasons. Now it’s back. The last bog was popular, unbelievably popular, for reasons that escape me. Anyway, here’s

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