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A missed opportunity
The theory of capitalism (and I’m greatly oversimplifying here, I know) says that, even is we all follow just our own self interest, a global “good” will somehow emerge. This is what F-Secure is doing in their blogpost where they write about a specific ransomware which – if you get infected with – encrypts your…
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Announcing a couple of contests
Here are some contests I found: The Fifth Underhanded C Contest – the scope is to write benign looking code which would pass trough a code-review (and/or there is plausible deniability for the coder), but which does some evil things. Found it via slashdot. Some of the previous solutions are truly ingenious. From the Forensics…
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TwitFeeder is not for Twitter only
The TwitFeeder has support for non-Twitter sources – crossposted from the TwitFeeder blog: The TwitFeeder uses the Twitter API to get the different bits and pieces of information needed to generate the enhanced RSS feed. However Twitter isn’t the only one exposing the API: Laconi.ca (now Status.Net) is an “Open source microblogging service” and it…
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Google Web Hosting alternatives
Google is one of the “big three” integrated web hubs on the internet offering many services in one place, most of them free. Of course everything has it price (nothing is truly free) and these offerings being free means that they don’t guarantee a very end-user friendly SLA. For example they recently retired Google Pages…
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A “Bob” story
If you are not familiar with the “Bob story” concept: I first heard about it on the Pauldotcom podcast, where Twitchy used to tell stories about how “Bob” went wardriving, created a fake AP and did other grayhat things. They may have taken the idea from somewhere, but this is where I’ve heard it first.…
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Choosing a Java profiler
Recently I’ve been looking around for a Java profiler (since the two things you need for a successful performance tuning session are good data and clear targets). I’ll share the notes about my findings in the hope that they might be useful for someone. Quick disclaimer: don’t believe everything you read on the Internet! These…
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As if you need extra reasons for paranoia
As they say: just because you’re paranoid, it doesn’t mean that you’re not being watched! Here are a couple of links which freaked me out recently: Warily, and with much trepidation – a blogpost about how one deleted his facebook settings because of privacy concerns. I do have a facebook page, but I only use…