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An Unexpected Ass Kicking | Blog Of Impossible Things # MUST-READ POSTING FOR ALL GEEKS
Not just for the insight into the wrongness of “tablet computing”: “I’ve been against Macintosh company lately. They’re trying to get everyone to use iPads and when people use iPads they end up just using technology to consume things instead of making things. With a computer you can make things. You can code, you can…
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Twitter Updates for 2012-08-08
NASA’s Mars YouTube Videos taken offline by bogus copyright claims & automated software #curiosity /cc @OpenRightsGroup http://t.co/PXPf1Arl # : HELP: Someone plz remind me: tool for ripping thru disk/exe images looking for crypto key material? http://t.co/thAr1yhn # : Ill teenager misses her family cat, so the internet builds her a virtual cathedral of felines #aww…
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Strategies for implementing Content Security Policy – Ben Summers’ Blog /ht @bensummers
Content Security Policy (CSP) is a feature of modern web browsers which helps mitigate some content injection vulnerabilities in web applications. While it’s no substitute for writing a secure application, it’s useful in minimising the effect of these vulnerabilities. I recently implemented a strict CSP in a reasonably old web application. As coding started in…
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humour du jour: “i feel like an aeropress”
me: need coffee. i feel like an aeropress. both literally and figuratively. @shortblue: You feel rapidly able to express all the goodness with no hints of bitterness? me: bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha… me: #petard meet #hoist @metal_max: I’m thinking of posting that exchange somewhere public. @metal_max: Except most of the people I would point it out to probably…
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Advance Notice: Crypticide / Dropsafe Outage, Saturday 11th
Just a quick note that if Dropsafe vanishes for a large chunk of saturday, be not afeared. A performance rebuild is in the offing.
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Ill teenager misses her family cat, so the internet builds her a virtual cathedral of felines #aww
Because of her weakened immune system, 16-year-old cancer patient Maga Barzallo Sockemtickem has spent many months over the past year recovering in isolation at the Seattle Children’s Hospital. While waiting for a suitable bone marrow donor and receiving subsequent treatments, Maga found herself missing her beloved cat Merry. The hospital stepped in and created “The…
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HELP: Someone plz remind me: tool for ripping thru disk/exe images looking for crypto key material?
There was some tool a few years ago which would skim through data files looking for little spots of hardcoded entropy which might correlate to encryption keys being hardcoded/embedded in a binary. It started out as a research project but I am assuming it got improved since. #needscoffee
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NASA’s Mars YouTube Videos taken offline by bogus copyright claims and automated police software #curiosity /cc @OpenRightsGroup
But NASA couldn’t prepare for everything. An hour or so after Curiosity’s 1.31 a.m. EST landing in Gale Crater, I noticed that the space agency’s main YouTube channel had posted a 13-minute excerpt of the stream. Its title was in an uncharacteristic but completely justified all caps: “NASA LANDS CAR-SIZE ROVER BESIDE MARTIAN MOUNTAIN.” When…
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Twitter Updates for 2012-08-07
: Next time someone cites "military grade encryption", this is your response: #security http://t.co/PFxsAPIa # @ObscenityLawyer Is it legal to drive cars but illegal to photograph them? Probably … # It's the hover-over on today's #XKCD which teaches a very subtle but important lesson. # oooooooookay, that's thunder. distant but powerful. #kaboom # : Light…
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Infiltrate the Vault: Security Analysis and Decryption of Lion Full Disk Encryption (PDF) #DONOTPANIC #NOTBROKENYET
http://eprint.iacr.org/2012/374.pdf – but a few bugs were found and fixed by Apple
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Light Blue Touchpaper » Blog Archive » Analysis of FileVault 2 (Apple’s full disk encryption)
With the launch of Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion), Apple has introduced a volume encryption mechanism known as FileVault 2. During the past year Joachim Metz, Felix Grobert and I have been analysing this encryption mechanism. We have identified most of the components in FileVault 2’s architecture and we have also built an open source…
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Next time someone cites “military grade encryption”, this is your response: #security
RT @econmobile: This message will self-destruct econ.st/Nc2vID << “Military grade encryption”? Navajo or Enigma? #wickr — Saso Virag (@VS_) August 6, 2012 Navajo or Enigma?