Dropsafe

your conference will begin momentarily. please continue to hold…

(more…)

I wonder if I should apply. 😎 Received: from disG.cjb.net (adsl-32-219-20.bct.bellsouth.net [67.32.219.20]) by pheriche.sun.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id GAA22986 for ; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 06:01:41 -0600 (MDT) From: “Recruiting” Subject: Disgruntled Hackers Recruiting [A call to arms] To: alecm@coyote.uk.sun.com Greetings, I am representing the security research and developement (hacking) group DHO (Disgruntled Hackers ORG).…

(more…)

i ensured that i got home from work on friday evening with plenty of time to set my house straight, since i was expecting a visit from my friend oonagh, whom i have not seen for some fourteen years, since college. oon’s hardly changed at all – jolly, silly, empathic, somewhat indecisive. we went out…

(more…)

i’ve set-up a blog internal to my work, reckoning that nobody else has done it yet and therefore it constitutes a novel means of information communication. next, i’ll set up crossposting between the two, so i can get paid for writing my blogs, and publish the non-work related stuff here. being paid for blogging. what…

(more…)

Is Alistair Cooke’s R4 Letter From America – Internet aside – the world’s longest-running Blog?

(more…)

“Outlook – the internet petri-dish for viruses” – lovely description.

(more…)

IBM Takes On Sun Cobalt http://www.isp-planet.com/equipment/2002/ibm_hostapp.html The IBM e-Server xSeries Hosting Appliance includes up to 40 pre-loaded applications and operates on Red Hat’s Linux platform. Add in Sphera’s Hosting Director and IBM has built an offer worthy of the Sun.

(more…)

I certainly wouldn’t mind having a cheap Xterm/toy box subsidized by microsoft. OK now you are going to tell me they don’t have VGA outputs or ethernet? Actually, there is a project to put Apache and/or Linux on an XBox (imagine cheap clusters of XBoxen running Apache as your web solution 😉 Im inspired enough…

(more…)

Does a posting to which you are not permitted to respond, have any real meaning or use whatsoever?

(more…)

we ought to write an april 1st RFC for a new service – call it HACKPORT or similar – that you can connect to and have it advertise a list of hackable TCP/UDP ports and services hosted on the machine. this should – if made mandatory – have the beneficial effect of negating all these…

(more…)

Ah, young love! http://reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=humannews&StoryID=830368

(more…)

http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/04/11/020411hnwebservices.xml MICROSOFT, IBM, AND Verisign have devised a way to add integrity- and confidentiality-checking capabilities to upcoming Web services applications, a first step in a broader joint effort to secure Web services, the companies said Thursday. The jointly developed specification, dubbed WS-Security, defines a set of SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) extensions and describes how…

(more…)