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  • Crack gets a bit-part in “#Underground, The Julian Assange Story” /cc @alexwilliams282

    2012/10/07 16:54:20 BST

    Bastards wiped my credit, though 🙂 I feel I should post these as 256-colour GIFs, but: I am pretty sure I never wired it to automatically telnet directly into the target machine as the cracked user; Julian must have been running MovieOS extensions on his system. Plus: The “General” must have had a shoddy-ass password:

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    fun personal security software
  • “Shoot the driver of this vehicle without question. R$100,000 Reward.”

    2012/10/07 11:45:03 BST

    In Brazil, a new regulation requires drivers to add radio ID tags to their car windshields, which broadcast “vehicle year or fabrication, make, model, combustible, engine power and license plate number.” This will be read by checkpoints throughout the country, and centrally processed and retained, in a system called Siniav. The administration claims that this

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    censorship and interception openrightsgroup
  • Little bits of Crack history keep popping up…

    2012/10/07 10:42:15 BST

    Awww… I found my old floppy with Alec Muffet’s Crack 4.0 The Unix password cracking Ancestor. For new generation, read here crypticide.com/alecm/software… — ToolsWatch (@ToolsWatch) October 5, 2012 Thanks Alec Muffet for this awesome software. How many girls i dated in exchange of cracking their bosses passwords. — ToolsWatch (@ToolsWatch) October 5, 2012 Update: .@toolswatch

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    security
  • Mandy Patinkin: 25 Years After ‘The Princess Bride,’ He’s Not Tired Of That Line : Monkey See : NPR # excellent read

    2012/10/07 08:08:01 BST

    Twenty-five years ago, The Princess Bride performed only so-so at the box office. But as you know if you have ever had it quoted to you — and who hasn’t? — it’s come to be one of the most beloved films of the 1980s. On Friday’s All Things Considered, Mandy Patinkin, now starring in Showtime’s

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    fun
  • Sunday? Bored? Here’s #Defra trying to superinjunct & threaten a US website apparently regarding #badgers #sitp

    2012/10/07 07:30:32 BST

    http://blog.nearlyfreespeech.net/2012/10/06/official-uk-government-attempt-at-censorship/: Today, we received a first for us, a letter from the actual UK Treasury Solicitor’s office, the branch of the UK government charged with suing people on behalf of the rest of the UK government. It largely mirrors the private solicitor’s letter, and was much like most other complaints we receive. Much like most

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    censorship and interception politics and law
  • Twitter Updates for 2012-10-07

    2012/10/07 06:00:00 BST

    @paul_clarke Ever the security guy, it depends on what you are trying to achieve. NAS or not, software or hardware RAID, etc… # #Tumblr goes out and hundreds of thousands of people start to wonder "Why can't I run my own system and avoid this?" # @jribbens Nice add. I would geo, I have too

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  • In case you haven’t been keeping up with the #Hakin9 #NMap hoax this week, you REALLY need to read

    2012/10/06 19:17:14 BST

    this: The article is by some well-known researchers: Jon Oberheide, Nico Waisman, Matthieu Suiche, Chris Valasek, Yarochkin Fyodor, the Grugq and Jonathan Brossard, Mark Dowd Maybe they were sick of Hakin9’s constant please-write-an-unpaid-article-for-us spam and decided to submit some well-crafted gibberish in response. Even the paper title is ridiculous: Nmap: The Internet Considered Harmful –

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    fun security
  • How to simultaneously oppress people & screw up your e-economy: #Iran blocks MP3, MP4, AVI, SWF files /HT @small_media

    2012/10/06 18:42:47 BST

    Over the past two weeks, the internet has been the site of an intensified battle between Iranian internet users and Iran’s Filtering Committee (IFC). It began when secure access to Google search and Gmail was blocked, provoking a media storm with western media like Ars Technica and the Guardian quick to report. The filtering was

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    censorship and interception
  • Government won’t fund ploughshare research, so instead we adapt the swords # #hackerspace #darpa

    2012/10/06 15:34:43 BST

    Piffle: “Having these programs in schools is fantastic, but the military calling the shots in American education?” Mitch Altman, a co-founder of Noisebridge, a San Francisco hackerspace, said in an interview. “I don’t see that as a positive move,” added Mr. Altman, who, in an online post, was among the first to take a stand

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    development networking security software
  • PHP, the web’s most popular programming language, is coming to mobile # one for @glynwintle HT @jimfinnis

    2012/10/06 14:51:43 BST

    A certain kind of developer loves to hate on PHP. They are really going to hate where PHP’s custodians are taking it next. PHP was created by Danish programmer Rasmus Lerdorf in 1995. In 1997, Israeli programmers Andi Gutmans and Zeev Suraski rewrote the parser, creating the base for PHP 3. By 1999, they had

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    mobile security software
  • How SQLite Is Tested

    2012/10/06 13:30:52 BST

    SQLite is open source. This gives many people the idea that it is not well tested as commercial software and is perhaps unreliable. But that impression is false. SQLite has exhibited very high reliability in the field and a very low defect rate, especially considering how rapidly it is evolving. The quality of SQLite is

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    software
  • identity theft as mind-reading

    2012/10/06 08:09:03 BST

    Cute video, but I’m ambivalent; to my mind the banks should be working harder to be proof against fraud whatever their clients may get up to short of outright taking-the-money-out-on-behalf-of-a-fraudster. However, pragmatism rules…

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    security
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