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Mixed links and commentary
Fresh from the web: The latest version of the Uninformed magazine is out. Although it contains only three articles, two of them are definitely worth reading if you are interested in reverse engineering. Google Webmaster Central. If you have problems with your site being (or not being) indexed by Google, take a look here. The…
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On javascript libraries
I did a little project for school which included the dojo.gfx library. Here are share some of the conclusions I arrived at. But first a disclaimer: INAJD (I’m Not A Javascript Developer). I dabble with it but I’m not a professional. Now back to our topic: Javascript libraries are huge. After including the dojo toolkit,…
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A childhood memory
Something very interesting happened: I remembered that I used to watch (and love) an animated television series called Voltron. But the punchline is how I remembered it: by reading an article on A List Apart about web standards. Incredible, isn’t it?
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Hack the Gibson #73 & #74
Well, don’t hack it. Actually the last two episodes of Security Now! were very insightful and as far as I know without major mistakes. The interview with Peter Gutmann is very interesting and if you have time you should read the original paper: A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection. My opinion about it?…
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Hacker challenge over
The Christmas (Hacking) Story challenge is over and unfortunately I didn’t win :), so I publish my response: What is interesting about the files that Ralphie could see on the lamp server? nc is most probably netcat (http://netcat.sourceforge.net/), the “network swiss army knife” (the fact that it’s executable, as can be seen from the directory…
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Implementing Web Services with Open Source Software
Today many services are available (both internal and external to a company) as Web Services, more specifically as SOAP. Companies like Microsoft, IBM or Sun have heavily invested in this field and made many of their products compatible with it (as a client and/or as a server). In this article I will study the different…
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Two quick Linux / Ubuntu tips
If you find that you are running out of disk space and some of your applications crashed recently, you might want to look in your home folder. When applications crashes, Ubuntu creates here memory dumps to help the programmer determine the cause of the crash. But if you are no programmer, you can safely delete…
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Mixed links and commentary
A short post today, again: Via Ajaxian: Leafletter. A very interesting design concept, but remember that Flash files included in your site can access every portion of it just like third party javascript can! (Also their scroll bar seem very counter intuitive) Two problems with websites: the Authenium blog has comments disabled, so that I…
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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…