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Having seen the ads this last holiday season, you think you might know all there is to know about the new crop of console game systems. But are these, and other console game systems, just for fun and games? Could they be used for other purposes?? Yes they can. With the advent of more powerful consoles many systems have the ability to do just about anything - after all they are still computers. Two years ago I gave a presentation at ToorC....
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Fuzzing and other runtime testing techniques are great at finding certain kinds of bugs. The trick is, effective fuzzing requires a lot of customization. The fuzzer needs to understand the protocol being spoken, anticipate the kinds of things that could go wrong in the program, and have some way to judge whether or not the program has gone into a tailspin. Get this setup wrong, and you end up fuzzing the wrong thing, exercising and re-exerc....
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Currently, those interested in learning how to professionally conduct Information System Penetration Tests have very little options available to them - they can either illegally attack Internet-connected systems, or create their own PenTest Lab. For those who prefer to avoid legal complications, they really only have the last option - a lab. However, this can be a very complicated and expensive alternative. In addition, scenarios have to be....
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What keeps a hacker up at night? What issues and projects keep Agent X from getting a good night's sleep? This turbo-rant will present 22 things that make the night seem long and morning far off. Technology challenges, social challenges. Issues with the hacker scene, issues with the way the world works. Agent X: Jesse Krembs is co-founder of the Hacker Foundation and former president. He travels widely performing radio survey & instal..
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Paul Sebastian Ziegler: Multiplatform malware within the .NET-Framework
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www.defcon.org
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20 years ago
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Multiplatform Malware - many of us have heard that term. Discussions on this matter arose a few month ago and they didn't cease yet. But while many people have taken interest in this matter there still isn't much of a common sense around. The time has come to change this! In this speech you will learn about a) the current status of multiplatform malware b) the possibilities multiplatform malware opens up for an attacker c) differen....
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The time for secure encrypted VoIP for the masses is upon us. The Zfone Project has come a long way in the two years since Phil Zimmermann demoed a prototype at Black Hat. It's now a family of products, running on Symbian and Windows mobile phones, soft VoIP clients on Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, and in the Asterisk PBX, in both open source and commercial products. Zfone lets you whisper in someone's ear from a thousand miles away. Ph....
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Majority of Greater Helsinki inhabitants want to keep Malmi Airport
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bergie.iki.fi
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20 years ago
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Helsingin Sanomat , which originally had a very aggressive stance against the airport , has now published its gallup results saying majority of Greater Helsinki inhabitants want to keep Malmi Airport as-is : Malmin lentoasemasta kysyttiin, pitäisikö lentokenttä ottaa asuntorakentamiseen edellyttäen, että lentoasemarakennukset säilytetään. Vaihtoehtona oli alueen säilyminen lentokenttänä kuten nyt. Kaikissa kaupungeissa selvä enemmis....
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Majority of Greater Helsinki inhabitants want to keep Malmi Airport
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bergie.iki.fi
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20 years ago
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Helsingin Sanomat , which originally had a very aggressive stance against the airport , has now published its gallup results saying majority of Greater Helsinki inhabitants want to keep Malmi Airport as-is : Malmin lentoasemasta kysyttiin, pitäisikö lentokenttä ottaa asuntorakentamiseen edellyttäen, että lentoasemarakennukset säilytetään. Vaihtoehtona oli alueen säilyminen lentokenttänä kuten nyt. Kaikissa kaupungeissa selvä enemmis....
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1. Don’t give personal information to obtain documents on the web Many sites want you to register to get a free document or certain web page. What do you think they use your information for? Spam, spam and more spam. If you want to get these documents without putting in your personal information, simply put the URL for the site in http://bugmenot.com and get past the registration! 2. Protect against Viruses Use Firefox - Many spywa..
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1. Don’t give personal information to obtain documents on the web Many sites want you to register to get a free document or certain web page. What do you think they use your information for? Spam, spam and more spam. If you want to get these documents without putting in your personal information, simply put the URL for the site in http://bugmenot.com and get past the registration! 2. Protect against Viruses Use Firefox - Many spywa..
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C# 3.0 is Right Around the Corner (in the Microsoft sense of the word…), and it brings to bear a lot of interesting features. Most of them come together in the technology called LINQ (Language INtegrated Queries). Even though I doubt I will use C#, I think there is a lot that can be learned from this preview release. Let’s take a look at an example Query: var contacts = from cust in customers where cust.
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For the most part I think Ruby on Rails is pretty much the best thing since sliced bread. Of course, like everything else, there are some issues I’m uncomfortable with. Mostly, it has to do with deployment, and especially security during deployment. SwitchTower deploy.rb configuration file contains source repository password. This is a consequence of the fact that the application servers check out code from the repository. When using Switch..
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Everyone is talking about SwitchTower these days, so I just had to check it out. When I got it to work, I was quite pleased with how it works, but there were quite a few issues along the road. First of: What is SwitchTower? Basically, it is a tool for automating deployment of applications, focused around Ruby on Rails. With SwitchTower in place, I am able to write stuff like “rake deploy” and “rake rollback”.
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Es el término de moda en los entornos de programación web: AJAX , consistente en la interacción de las tecnologías JavaScript , HTML / CSS y XML . Aunque en sí misma esta conjunción resulta bastante reciente, las tecnologías implicadas son ya viejas glorias entre los programadores. El concepto básico en el que se basa esta técnica de programación es bastante simple: cuando se produce un evento en el navegador web que está mostrando e....
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Jason Zhicheng Li has written a blog article about Spring configuration. It is called the 12 Best Practices for Spring configuration. Best practice #1 was “don’t use autowiring*. That got me thinking: I feel very ambivalent about autowiring. Initially, I thought it sounded like a great idea because it reduced clutter, but then people like Jason convinced me that it was not. The more I think about it, the more usure I am.
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We went with Kerttu to a fencing lesson for the first time yesterday. The sabre course feels interesting, and the connections to Kendo , the other sword sport I’ve practiced are definitely visible. A very small course at Ylioppilasmiekkailijat , so we practically get private instruction. Before Kendo I’ve also practiced Iaido , the art of drawing the Japanese sword, and of course Viking swordfighting . Kerttu has some experience..
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We went with Kerttu to a fencing lesson for the first time yesterday. The sabre course feels interesting, and the connections to Kendo , the other sword sport I’ve practiced are definitely visible. A very small course at Ylioppilasmiekkailijat , so we practically get private instruction. Before Kendo I’ve also practiced Iaido , the art of drawing the Japanese sword, and of course Viking swordfighting . Kerttu has some experience..
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Joel Spolsky had a blog entry seems eerily familiar: The Architecture Astronauts (in outer space) I’m starting to see a new round of pure architecture astronautics: meaningless stringing-together of new economy buzzwords in an attempt to sound erudite. I’ve seen the type, and I’m glad to say that we haven’t got any of those around. A bad architect can cause enormous damage.
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I just got published last week: My article Unit Testing Hibernate Mapping Configurations was last week’s featured article in java.net. This is the first time I’ve really been published (at least been paid for it!). I found the experience interesting and (mostly) fun. Many thanks to the editor, Chris!
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Any reader of my blog should not be surprised by the fact that I think software patents are pretty bogus. So y’all will forgive a little rant brought on by the examining the (pretty bogus) eolas patent. Here is the introduction to the patent, taken from eolas “technology” page: The Web Application Platform Distributed hypermedia method for automatically invoking external application providing interaction and display of embedded objects with..
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The bad news is that I am taking down the articles about Hibernate-testing from my blog. This is because I am going to publish the text as an article in java.net. (which is the good news). Stay tuned for more information. Comments: [Ash] - Sep 15, 2005 I have read some of your post on testing DAO(s) using an in memory database and look forward to your article in java.net. Awesome work!
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Pues parece ser que los tan sonados rumores de que Google iba a ofrecer un servicio de mensajería instántanea se han hecho realidad . Es más, también se ha confirmado que utiliza el protocolo Jabber , lo cual supondrá un fuerte empujón a esta tecnología libre. El nombre con el que se ha bautizado este servicio es Google Talk . Podemos ver que ofrecen un cliente, por el momento únicamente para sistemas Windows, con el cual podrem..
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I read an extremely intesting book last week. Cliff Stoll’s “The Cuckoo’s Egg” is a true story about how the author was tracking a hacker in the mid-eighties. It reads like a spy novel, but is appearently all true. I picked the book up at 11 at night, and was unable to put it down until I had completed the whole thing! The book gives a pretty good understanding of computer crime, crimefighting, and the basic methods of the typical script ki..
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https://github.com/mbutler/openwound Openwound is a (re)writing tool named after the famous William S. Burroughs quote about cut-up writing being divination. “When you cut into the present the future leaks out.” This project started in 2002 with the publication of the book Alloy: Kind Tricks and Bodily Realities in the Vanguard Party that I created for my MFA […]
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2005-06-27 17:45Z: Anchored for the night at N61.49,45 E36.06,73 . We have made a tent out of the sail and wait on river Vodla for the forecasted SE wind. 2005-06-28 06:25Z: As forecasted, the wind turned in the morning. After a few miles of rowing, we’re finally under sail in a small rain. 2005-06-28 10:45Z: When the headwind died we were able to row out of the river. Now we’ll head slowly into north towards Povenets 200....
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2005-06-27 17:45Z: Anchored for the night at N61.49,45 E36.06,73 . We have made a tent out of the sail and wait on river Vodla for the forecasted SE wind. 2005-06-28 06:25Z: As forecasted, the wind turned in the morning. After a few miles of rowing, we’re finally under sail in a small rain. 2005-06-28 10:45Z: When the headwind died we were able to row out of the river. Now we’ll head slowly into north towards Povenets 200....
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Updated for republication in MrBool. As readers of my blog must have noticed by now, I am somewhat of an advocate of Extreme Programming (XP). However, for the last nine months or so, my title has been “Lead Software Architect”, and I am the (proud?) author of what Martin Fowler calls “the almighty thud” documents. XP is traditionally skeptical of architects, and often with just cause. I’ve frequently heard the term “architect” defined as s..
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I’m joining the Shnjaka expedition in east Carelia this weekend. Shnjaka is a viking ship built without a single nail using the old sowing techniques. At the moment the expedition team is somewhere near the town of Pudoszh on the east side of lake Onega, preparing for the ship launch, scheduled monday. I’m traveling with some friends to St. Petersburg and plan to catch a train to Petrozavodsk during the weekend, and then a boat from....
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I’m joining the Shnjaka expedition in east Carelia this weekend. Shnjaka is a viking ship built without a single nail using the old sowing techniques. At the moment the expedition team is somewhere near the town of Pudoszh on the east side of lake Onega, preparing for the ship launch, scheduled monday. I’m traveling with some friends to St. Petersburg and plan to catch a train to Petrozavodsk during the weekend, and then a boat from....
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El Sábado por la noche, camino de vuelta a casa sobre las 6 de la mañana, después de una noche de fiesta con los amigos, pasaba por delante de la biblioteca de Rafalafena, desde donde se podía observar el cielo totalmente despejado (cosa bastante normal en las noches con viento, como fue ésta), teniendo una visión impresionante de la constelación Cassiopea justo encima del edificio de la biblioteca. No sé muy bien por qué, pero esa situació....
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Al final todo lo bueno llega a su fin, y las fiestas de la Magdalena no han sido una excepción. Tras 10 días de frío y sufrimiento por pasarlo bien, volvemos a la rutinaria vida del trabajo diario. En general han estado bastante bien, aunque como siempre, he acabado bastante “quemado” con la organización y lo elitistas que pueden llegar a ser, pero bueno, prefiero no escribir sobre ello, no creo que ni tan siquiera lo merezcan. Aunque lo ....
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Introducción La Seguridad Informática es una disciplina que trata de asegurar la integridad y la privacidad de los sistemas de la información. Cubre todos los componentes que forma un sistema de información: datos, software, hardaware, redes, usuarios, etc. En este documento se va a profundizar en la Seguridad Informática centrada al software, más concretamente en la Criptología . La Criptología es la rama de la Seguridad Informática q....
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Featured in the Rhizome.org Artbase View the code here Schema was originally published in issue 5+6 of Aspen magazine. It is now being archived at UbuWeb and can be viewed here. In 1966 conceptual artist Dan Graham composed a language based work entitled Schema. The artwork consisted of a formal procedure for how to describe […]
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Hoy he podido escuchar y ver en diversos medios de comunicación el anuncio de que la NASA realizaba el lanzamiento de su última misión espacial, Deep Impact , que transportará una nave cuya misión será estreyarse con el cometa Tempel 1 a una velocidad de nada menos que 37.000 km/h. El aplastante suceso ocurrirá el 4 de Julio del presente año, a una distancia 431 millones de kilómetros, un poco lejos para que cierto país pueda usar la explo....
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Europe in Miniature 09:00h Made it back to the Midwest of the South Pacific, where the most threatening thing is the drug dog that will point you out to Customs if you have had any fruit (or drugs) in your backpack at any time in the last 10,000 years. How is it that a 12 hour transpacific flight can seem to take forever, and yet when it's over it's hard to say what exactly happened during those 12 hours? The memory of too-small ....
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Europe in Miniature 09:00h Made it back to the Midwest of the South Pacific, where the most threatening thing is the drug dog that will point you out to Customs if you have had any fruit (or drugs) in your backpack at any time in the last 10,000 years. How is it that a 12 hour transpacific flight can seem to take forever, and yet when it's over it's hard to say what exactly happened during those 12 hours? The memory of too-small ....
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Europe in Miniature 09:00h Made it back to the Midwest of the South Pacific, where the most threatening thing is the drug dog that will point you out to Customs if you have had any fruit (or drugs) in your backpack at any time in the last 10,000 years. How is it that a 12 hour transpacific flight can seem to take forever, and yet when it's over it's hard to say what exactly happened during those 12 hours? The memory of too-small ....
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Halfway Around the World 09:14h I'm still stuck in LA but feel as if I'm already halfway around the world. Went out for a jog, just around the block, smelling forgotten, friendly smells, but somehow got stuck in a run down neighborhood and had to jump two fences just to get back to my hotel, which was within line-of-sight the whole time. As everyone knows, this place is not set up for pedestrians. All the trees here third-world-nati....
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Halfway Around the World 09:14h I'm still stuck in LA but feel as if I'm already halfway around the world. Went out for a jog, just around the block, smelling forgotten, friendly smells, but somehow got stuck in a run down neighborhood and had to jump two fences just to get back to my hotel, which was within line-of-sight the whole time. As everyone knows, this place is not set up for pedestrians. All the trees here third-world-nati....
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Halfway Around the World 09:14h I'm still stuck in LA but feel as if I'm already halfway around the world. Went out for a jog, just around the block, smelling forgotten, friendly smells, but somehow got stuck in a run down neighborhood and had to jump two fences just to get back to my hotel, which was within line-of-sight the whole time. As everyone knows, this place is not set up for pedestrians. All the trees here third-world-nati....
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GPS: N40d00.000' W88d35.625' (but, bad signal in O'Hare) 13:01h Well, I'm underway, waiting for my flight to LAX. Managed to get my form stamped at customs, and found a seat near my gate with a power outlet. Itinerary: Chicago -> Los Angeles -> Auckland, NZ -> Christchurch, NZ -> McMurdo Station -> South Pole Station. Five plane rides, something like 30 hours in the air. This is my fourth trip but it's been a five year wait and ....
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GPS: N40d00.000' W88d35.625' (but, bad signal in O'Hare) 13:01h Well, I'm underway, waiting for my flight to LAX. Managed to get my form stamped at customs, and found a seat near my gate with a power outlet. Itinerary: Chicago -> Los Angeles -> Auckland, NZ -> Christchurch, NZ -> McMurdo Station -> South Pole Station. Five plane rides, something like 30 hours in the air. This is my fourth trip but it's been a five year wait and ....
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GPS: N40d00.000' W88d35.625' (but, bad signal in O'Hare) 13:01h Well, I'm underway, waiting for my flight to LAX. Managed to get my form stamped at customs, and found a seat near my gate with a power outlet. Itinerary: Chicago -> Los Angeles -> Auckland, NZ -> Christchurch, NZ -> McMurdo Station -> South Pole Station. Five plane rides, something like 30 hours in the air. This is my fourth trip but it's been a five year wait and ....
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Last latched GPS: N41d59.099' W87d39.934' T minus 2 days. Biggest snow storm in 2 years getting me warmed up for the Pole. I've gone out each morning for the past few days on "trial runs" with Dad's old Horseman camera and tripod. Yesterday, by the time I got to Lake Michigan, the shutter cock had frozen (not a good sign) and I only got half a roll. But the film grain looks very fine (APX-100) and today the shutter worked ok. On the b....
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