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Race to Zero
Disclaimer: I work for a security company. This post (and all others, unless marked explicitly otherwise) represent my own opinions and do not necessarily reflect the views of my current or past employers. As expected, the announced Race to Zero competition has raised quite some stir, similar to the test performed by ConsumerReports. Here are…
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Random thoughts and commentary
Via the Erratasec blog: Race to Zero. From the webpage: The Race to Zero contest is being held during Defcon 16 at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas, 8-10 August 2008. The event involves contestants being given a sample set of viruses and malcode to modify and upload through the contest portal. The portal passes…
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Port redirection under Windows
When you want to forward a port, there are several possibilities from iptables to SSH. However I needed a low-latency link with no encryption or compression (because the protocol running over it was encrypted and double-encryption just slows things down without any substantial benefit in this case). My first idea was to chain two Netcat…
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You affect all of us
I finally decided to sit down and write the tutorial about configuring Windows XP in a secure fashion, based on my experiences in the last four years or so. And I emphasize again: these methods worked well for me on several computers and even in "though" scenarios like writing and debugging software. And then I…
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Trees in PostgreSQL
depesz has written an other of his great articles. There isn’t really much I can add to it, other than it’s very nice and doesn’t use any PostgreSQL specific elements (like arrays), so it can easily be ported to other DB systems which support triggers. Personally I only had to implement tree structures once, and…