• from the #security chat channel

    <efi> just finished my pizza <bartb> ow – enjoyed it I hope <efi> hmmm with all the sunshine out it was painfull but what the hell <PAVUK> 🙂 <bartb> you should know by now that sunshine is not the natural environment for geeks <efi> yep geeks these strange beasts which are kept closed in a

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  • it’s tuesday, if i remember rightly…

    Urgh. Well, my head is now back together, but I could really do with a couply more hours worth of sleep. Joep from Solaris Software Security Products Group (or whatever they are called this month) arrived late last night; his flight was due at 1920h but landed at 2047h, so in retrospect it was a

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  • waiting for godot: the interactive adventure.

    Waiting for Godot: The Interactive Adventure! http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Lot/6200/waitingforgodot.html

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  • good morning

    it’s damp, it’s been raining, and it’s a lovely day. i woke inexplicably early (0530h) showered and breakfasted, and crashed on the sofa a bit, to snuggle the cat. tea, telephoned to pay some bills, joined the bmf, and got in the car to drive to work. I got as far as one end of

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  • quiz #25 | security attacks

    Should you really be afraid of a smurf? And exactly what threat does a pulsing zombie pose? They’re just two of the sinister computer attacks you need to watch out for. Our latest quiz just may send a shiver down your spine. http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid14_gci813585,00.html

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  • sap gets its first virus…

    http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175855.html SAPvir, the first virus to infect programs and reports used by the high-end SAP R/3 business information system, was posted to an online virus library this week. Experts said the proof-of-concept code, which does not appear to be present in the wild, is the latest effort by virus writers to target “exotic” computing platforms.

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  • words calculated to induce murderous thoughts…

    your conference will begin momentarily. please continue to hold…

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  • bizzare e-mail

    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).

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  • an odd weekend…

    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

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  • novel idea

    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

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  • thort for the day…

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

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  • danny smith 1z a d00d!

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

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