Oct 31 2009
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The Workspace project, by Joseph O. Holmes, is an “ongoing attempt to examine the quasi-private spaces people carve out of their public work lives.”
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Oct 30 2009
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Stop the Bullshit
“Yeah sure it works… if there’s no vulnerability in it lol”
That, sir, is a tautology. Besides, with this kind of argument, you can quickly infer that nothing actually works. “Yeah your technique is nice and all, but there’s no way it’s going to be included in mainstream computers (i.e. Windows)”
This is such a bad idea, that I’m not even going to comment on it. “Your anti-malware technique will not work in cases X and Y”
Of course it won’t. We only have informal definitions of malware, so basically every anti-malware scheme is based on heuristics (i.e. sometimes they work, sometimes not) “You can’t ask the user to make informed decisions”
As stated above, we have no automatic way to decide if actions are malicious or not. So of course at some point we’ll have to ask the user. Just because the Vista UAC sucked does not mean all ask-the-user schemes suck. “I don’t care about malware, I’m not running Windows”
Deep inside you, you know that there is no secret sauce in other OSes that make them magically immune to malware, don’t you?
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“ Duisburg (ots) - Gestern Abend (27.10.), gegen 19.15 Uhr, entdeckte ein aufmerksamer Mitarbeiter der Postbank an der Beethovenstraße Skimming-Technik an dem dortigen Außengeldautomaten. Die unbekannten Täter hatten Kamera- und Kartenlesevorsatz offenbar zwischen dem Geschäftsschluss der Bank (18.00 Uhr) und dem Zeitpunkt der Entdeckung (19.15 Uhr) an dem Automaten angebracht. Durch die schnelle Entdeckung konnten nach bisherigen Erkenntnissen Ausspähungen von Kontodaten verhindert werden.
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iPhone, BlackBerry, Palm Pre All Vulnerable To Spear-Phishing Experiment - DarkReading
Joshua Perrymon, CEO of PacketFocus, sent a spoofed LinkedIn email to users in different organizations who had agreed to participate in the test; he was able to get his spoofed message through 100…
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Project ‘Gaydar’: An MIT experiment raises new questions about online privacy - The Boston Globe
At MIT, an experiment identifies which students are gay, raising new questions about online privacy
Oct 26 2009
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The Web Application Security Consortium / Web Application Security Statistics
The statistics includes data about 12186 web applications with 97554 detected vulnerabilities of different risk levels. The analysis shows that more than 13%* of all reviewed sites can be compromised…
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strange bug in ipython resolved
In [8]: %autocall 1
Automatic calling is: Smart
In [9]: len []
———> len([])
Out[9]: 0
In [10]: if True:
….: print ‘ok’
….:
….:
ok
In [11]: if True: # via readline history (keyboard up)
print ‘ok’
———-> print(‘ok’)
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IndentationError: expected an indented block (<ipython console>, line 2)
In [13]: %autocall 0
Automatic calling is: OFF
In [14]: if True: # via readline history (keyboard up)
print ‘ok’
….:
….:
ok
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mac-zfs at GitHub
Continuing where Apple left off with ZFS
