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To pack or not to pack?
After listening to an other great CyberSpeak podcast, I decided to line up the pros and cons of executable packing for programmers. First of all, what is executable packing? In short it is similar to self-extracting archives, where as a result of the process an executable is generated which contains some unpacking code and the…
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Hack The Gibson – Episode #66
Read the reason for these posts. Read Steve Gibson’s response. This again will be a short one. Steve talks about Vista which I have no immediate experience with (I’ve seen it on some decent machines and all that I can say is that it’s reeeeeeeeeeeeally slow. really, really, really slow. Event without the Aero interface).…
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Tracking Users Via the Browser Cache
From the department of old things I didn’t know about comes the following bit: Tracking Users Via the Browser Cache. Original story: meantime: non-consensual http user tracking using caches. Also covered here: Clearing cookies is not enough to save your privacy. And it was already posted on slashdot (so please don’t post it again :)).…
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All natural numbers are special
From the department of too-geeky-joke-to-be-funny comes the following one: All natural numbers are special: 0 is special because it is the first natural number 1 is special because it is the neutral element for multiplication 2 is special because it is the first even number 3 is special because it is the first odd prime…
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Spammers use Google as redirector
It seems that this isn’t a new thing (see others noticing it here and here), however I’ve been just hit by a couple of these today, so I blog about it 🙂 Google offers a service which creates redirects with arbitrary targets. Just enter http://www.google.com/url?q=<an-url-of-your-wish< and it will issue a 302 permanently moved header and…
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HIPS – just a pretty UI?
Disclaimer: the viewpoints and ideas expressed here an entirely my own and are by no means representative for any institution I am affiliated with. Also I do not want to offend anybody, since I realize that the amount of work it takes to create some of these programs and the wealth of knowledge one must…
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Hack the Gibson – episodes 63, 64 and 65
Read the reason for these posts. Read Steve Gibson’s response. Hello all. I have little time lately to blog. Also the latest episodes of Security Now seem to contain less and less errors, allowing me to do one post for three episodes. Episode #63 Steve Gibson says: But frankly, you know, a personal firewall, a…
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How to know what you’ve installed?
I’m doing a presentation on wireless as a school project (so that it can be included in a book ;)) and came across the following problem: neither OpenOffice 2 nor Gimp can read SVG files so I had to convert them in something which they can display (preferably PNG since it can preserve the transparency…