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
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…
The Adobe Source Code Breach
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 —…
Tagged with: acrobat, adobe, code breach, code security, cold fusion, flash, hackers, malware, source control
Posted in Security
Posted in Security
Paranoia deepens for security people as hardware trojans cloak
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…
Tagged with: amd, computer security, doping, hardware trojan, intel, logic gate, microcode, NSA, processor, rng, transistor, trojan
Posted in Security
Posted in Security
All configuration variables in Moodle code
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…
Linus Torvalds responds to petition to remove RdRand from /dev/random
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…
Hello again
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…
Installing SNMPD (with remote access) on Debian 5/Lenny
Today we’re installing snmpd so that we can query our debian server from another remote server that will use snmp in alert scripts and pretty graphing software. Snmpd installation is a little obtuse so here is how to do the…
Ann skips bail. Cue forensics puzzle.
Found a website and a forensics contest yesterday quite by accident. I was waiting for somebody before going out for the night and I thought this might be a little fun while I waited. Now the contest had closed and…
Fixing binary merge conflicts in git
Git is an awesome tool for managing your code. However, it does take a while to get used to doing things in git. One question I get asked a bit too often is “how do I resolve binary merge conflicts”?…