Month: February 2006
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Protected: Ca(non)ical v-day posting
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Protected: …Mr. Anderson, what good is a phone call if you are…unable…to speak.
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Your cellphone battery implements SHA-1, film at 11.
I read an article in EDN yesterday that came as a mild shocker, hashing and cryptography chips designed for embedding in….batteries. Yes, batteries. Specifically, rechargeable battery packs used in cellphones, laptops, cameras and similar consumer devices, allowing the device to reject “unauthorized” replacement batteries. Yes folks, slapping in a replacement battery pack for some discontinued…
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Woo, sneaky… and countersneaky
Some web servers send a site navigation page or other response page with a “HTTP 200 OK” response instead of a “HTTP 404 Not Found” result for page-not-found conditions. To check on web server handling of page-not-found conditions, Slurp will occasionally send deliberately odd URLs built from random words to sites from which no 404…
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I love, hate, love the wall street journal
Some gems from today and yesterday: “Then on Jan. 10, 2001, a deranged catfish farmer went on a rampage in a small Northern California town, killing three people and igniting public outrage.” (Nothing wrong with the sentence [& it was actually a serious article], I just found the mental image amusing [er…except for the people…
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Woo, cexx is back in vogue
The Bricemaster (one of my TSU buddies) pointed me to this tonight. CEXX.org (Counterexploitation) also has excellent forums, is ad free and somewhat broader than Spywareinfo, with links to the anti-spam community. Google to combat spyware – Newsday (Ha, I feel all famous again. Now, if only I had time to actually maintain the darned…