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Script kiddies and the sensationalists media
There is a great urge in the media today to come up with more and more sensationalists titles. This is understandable, because their main job is creating content and their success is measured directly in number of visitors. This is why (at least from this point of view) blogs are mostly better because (a) people…
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Mixed links and commentary
Since I’m very occupied at the moment, I won’t do a full post here, just some interesting links. I hope to get back to my normal schedule sometimes next week: Rift Widens Over Bug Disclosure – the discussion over bug disclosure continues. Why blurring sensitive information is a bad idea – an added note: if…
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Linux tips – take two
A short Linux/Ubuntu tip: If you want to control what services (daemons in Linux speak) run when you start your computer, use sudo sysv-rc-conf from the command line. If you don’t have it installed, do a quick sudo apt-get install sysv-rc-conf. It’s a very small download (around 25 Kb) and it’s much more convenient than…
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Linux also has a hosts file!
Update: I’m recommending that you use 0.0.0.0 instead of 127.0.0.1. Please check the link to see the reasons and how to modify your hosts file. Also, if you do the changes, the ping command at the end of this article won’t work (it will say something to the effect of “Destination specified is invalid.”, but…
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If you want statistics, you better include the tracking code
Around mid-December I did a redesign of my blog (actually I chose a different template and tweaked it a little bit :D) and forgot to include the Google Analytics tracking code in the new template. The result was that according to statistics I had 0 visitors in late December – early January. First I thought…
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So what I’ve been up to
Recently in my spare time I was hacking away on a tutorial on SVG for school. You can find it on my Google Pages account or download the whole thing as a zip file. Hopefully it helps someone.
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GMER Site DDoS-ed
It seems that the site hosting one of the popular rootkit detection programs is under DDoS. (news from AntiRootkit blog). So I’ve uploaded the file to my Google Pages account (good luck DDoS-ing Google, however they may take it down because bandwidth is money). While it is available, get it at: http://hype.free.googlepages.com/gmer.zip File size: 490698…
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Mixed links and commentary
The Perl Golf contest has ended and I have to admit I don’t even understand the winning entry so I couldn’t have written it. To my defense: I’ve been only programming in Perl ~6 months, so I can’t expect to be a guru. On the flip side: I can’t even get the winning program to…
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On disclosure
Disclosure and responsible disclosure is a very much discussed topics these days as the MOAB (no, not that one – yes it is a cheap shot, but maybe there are people who didn’t read it on ten other blogs :)). Here is one blog entry which says: I completely disagree with the decision for security…
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Reinventing the wheel
Those damn kids today don’t know their history and think that .NET is 1337! 😀 Some random dude in Taiwan couldn’t browse the web (because an undersea cable broke due to a recent earthquake) and he decided that using a webserver (probably configured by him) which ran arbitrary executables mailed to it (hint: the from…