Vuoi Vuoi Me
A song in Sami by Mari Boine Persen, remixed by Henrik Schwarz My remix of the translation: Vuoi mu gollelottas Vuoi mu beaiveidjalottas giehka ja goaskin Vuoi mu spalfu Vuoi mu spalfu miellevuol...
View ArticleSamoa moves to the other side of the world – and misses a day!
At midnight tonight, Samoa will switch from UTC-12 to UTC+12, jumping from one side of the world to the other. So there will be no Friday 30 December 2011 in Samoa. How funky is that?
View ArticleSOPA bytes GoDaddy’s business, and it will hurt you too.
SOPA as currently constructed can never work as intended. I'm not going to get into the reasons we don't like it because of its oppressive implications or because it is against our first amendment...
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View ArticleIdeology drives both Hacktivism and Online Piracy
2011 could very well have gone down as the year of Hacktivism. Hacktivism is the use of computers as a means of protest to promote political ends on the Internet, akin to regular activism and civil...
View ArticleMost Wi-Fi routers susceptible to hacking through security feature
Researchers have published a paper showing how a feature implemented in modern Wi-Fi routers intended to make securing them easier, in fact makes them insecure by default.
View ArticleHappy New Year 2012
Dear Readers, Wish you and your families a Very Happy New Year I would like to thank you all for your support and kind encouragement to my opinions on security. I never expected to have such a large...
View ArticleSteam: All your coal are belong to us
The rather awesome Steam gaming platform has a festive competition running at the moment - perform certain tasks in a selection of games drawn each day (or sign up to a few non gaming activities like...
View ArticleLooking back at 2011 by Ranty McRanterson
Editors Note: We don't know who this is.. But I like the cut of his Jib. But here is to hoping he writes some more in the future. -strandjs Note: if you're pressed for time (and aren't we all?), just...
View ArticlePixim Wide Dynamic Range Cameras
If you use security cameras, you already know that direct sunlight can make it almost impossible to capture a recognizable image. If your subject has direct sunlight or bright lights behind him,...
View ArticleThings to do in 2012 (5/5)
Promote platform and software diversity. Monocultures make us weaker. Diversity, on the other hand, makes us all, as a whole, much stronger.
View ArticlePasswords, Stratfor, and Newton’s 3rd Law of Motion
Newton's 3rd law is often stated as "for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction." Actually, what Newton actually said is a little more complex* than that, but this article isn't about...
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View ArticleAntiSec publishes 935,000 records taken from Stratfor
On Thursday, AntiSec supporters published nearly a million records, including usernames, email addresses, home addresses, phone numbers, credit card details, and hashed passwords - taken during the...
View ArticleHave you done the last copy?
You didn't? Neither did I. I'll do it now. You should do it too.
View ArticleMalware Analysis Quant: Build Testbed
As we move into the Malware Analysis process, it’s time to set up a testbed because you need somewhere to play. Here is our description from the process map: Build Testbed: It’s rarely a good idea to...
View ArticleZen #22
Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.
View ArticleThe most useless rankings possible
I was recently talking to someone who had a complaint about my use of the sucks/rocks meter to measure the relative popularity of various things related to information security. He essentially said,...
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