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A very cool scene from a film
And I write rhyming titles. W00t! 🙂 The scene is from the 1986 film Crossroads: Just in case the copyright overlords take that one down, here is an alternative version:
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How to handle problems?
Pretend they don’t exists! Some time ago I complained about WinPatrol. Today its author published a blogpost badmouthing Adobe because of the recent flaw in Adobe Reader. Myself in turn, posted a comment pointing out that no software is perfect (his included) and furthermore: the advice he gives is partially wrong and leaves people exposed…
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Mixed links
New Shool Information Gathering Toorcon X Edition Video – embedded below. You can also download the presentation. Very interesting and a lot of tools are mentioned which can be useful for reconnaissance. It looks like the GDrive is coming. Hopefully soon I can build my backup home-grown backup strategy, which should look something like this:…
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Brave new world
What do you call a world where tens of thousands of people have the ability to take out considerable part of an important infrastructure item. This the world we live in. Tens of thousands of people can create botnets and use them to attack other sites. Most recently the Metasploit site was attacked together with…
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Spot the flaws in the Windows 7 UI
I’ve been playing around with the Windows 7 beta for a couple of days now, and it feels painful! Regardless of what Leo Laporte says, it is very much a beta. And even the recent beta releases of Ubuntu are better than this. Below you can see a screenshot in which I tried to exemplify…
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Books to read
I’m entirely aware that probably I won’t have time to read all of them, but I’m putting them here for future reference (all of the linked books are free): from the taint.org blog / Geeking with Greg: Introduction to Information Retrieval – very interesting with contributions from real practitioners from the all about linux blog:…
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Mixed links
From Slashdot: Facebook Scrambles To Contain ToS Fallout. I especially liked the line “a new Facebook group called ‘People Against the new Terms of Service’ that has added more than 10,000 members today” (emphasis added). So yeah, start a group on the same site we are disagreeing with to show our protest. That should show…
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Update to the Top Commenters widget
Some time ago I created a "Top Commenters" widget for Blogger using Yahoo Pipes. Unfortunately my efforts to use the resulting RSS directly failed. The problem was that Blogger was displaying older entries, even though I tried a bunch of different things to convince it that the element were new (like setting the date, adding…
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Back of the napkin security research
I came up with the idea after seeing the following quote on the metasploit website: “powered by phpbb” “hacked by” – Results 1 – 10 from approximately 239.000 So you could do something similar to the TIOBE index (and with the same level of “accuracy” – this is more a fun thing than something which…