July 2009
88 posts
Hark, a Vagrant: Billy Bishop →
Wired For The Stone Age →
(I walk up to an older man playing with an iPhone in our electronics store.)
Me: “Hello sir, do you need any help?”
Customer: “Naw, but I was wondering…why does this darn thing work with my…
Joe Biden just showed up out of nowhere apparently uninvited like the unemployed brother-in-law living in your basement who you hope doesn’t wake up when you’re having friends over for cocktails who stumbles up the stairs in his underwear, sneezes on the hor d’oeuvres, scratches his butt and pees in the sink. Okay, maybe not, but that’s how it appeared to me.
Like Michelle Malkin or not, you...
How To Hijack 'Every iPhone In The World' →
nerdology:
If you receive a text message on your iPhone any time after Thursday afternoon containing only a single square character, Charlie Miller would suggest you turn the device off. Quickly. Using a flaw they’ve found in the iPhone’s handling of text messages, the researchers say they’ll demonstrate how to send a series of mostly invisible SMS bursts that can give a hacker complete power...
A Sartorial Niche
idiosyncratic-routine:
Him: i found the shirt you wanted me to bring for you and another one i wonder if you forgot to pack Me: which? Him: “fuck politics, i just want to burn shit down” Me: oh yeah um Me: i wasn’t sure about that one Him: If you can’t wear it at DEFCON, where else can you wear it? Me: point taken.
I think I need to get one of these and wear it to...
Things that piss me off Vol. 25323577
herestothefuture:
ewokonline:
My teachers keep telling me the same thing. I’m just here to work, I have no aspirations that this will make me rich and famous.
Loving it is what’s important. Because god knows there are plenty of people who hate their jobs. If you can find something that you love and make it work, more power to you, sir.
Truer words are almost never spoken. Do something...
“Internet Lawyer” shows severe lack of... →
This floated across my Twitter stream yesterday: Internet Lawyer Take: DEFCON Spinning Out of Control? Watch out, you might want to make sure you’re caffeinated and sitting down while you read it.…
Kojoney - A honeypot for the SSH Service →
Hope For The Best, Prepare For The 50 Megaton... →
(I work in an electronics & gas appliance store. A customer is inquiring about fireplaces.)
Customer: “I would like a power flue, but if the electricity cuts out I’ll be left with no heating!”
…
Add concrete ties to the list of things to worry... →
Hey! My commuter line made the news!
*click*
…
Dammit!
Security Insecurity →
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FAIL
Customer: “I want to pay my cell phone bill.”
Me: “Sure. May I have your wireless number?”
Customer: “Oh, I don’t give that out.”
Me: “Well, I’m sorry, sir, I…
you need this job →
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Can we implement this at work for security violations?
2009-07-26 23:43:05 looks like we are doing one last print run of the stairs…
MainHead goes here ok here →
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Hard hitting coverage from the New Bedford Standard Times
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Firefighter allegedly shoots cyclist in head to... →
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ATTEMPTED first degree murder? Come ON! Do they give a Nobel Prize for ATTEMPTED chemistry? Also: Always wear a helmet kids!
Police say firefighter Charles Diez…
GeekDad Wayback Machine - The Geekly Reader: Danny... →
Holy shit. There was a SERIES of Danny Dunn books? I cut my SciFi teeth on Danny Dunn and the Anti Gravity Paint. Of course, it was kind of hard to get more copies as the book that I had was about 20-30 years old and originally belonged to my Mom.
The mother of all New York Times corrections →
John has the New York Times corrections beat, but this one, pertaining to Walter Cronkite, is too rich for me to pass up: An appraisal on Saturday about Walter Cronkite’s career included a number…
Baboon Win →
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Offline Twitter Client [PIC] →
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The man who is 'allergic' to Wi-Fi →
nerdology:
He (and 2% of the population) suffers from Electromagnetic Sensitivity and lives in a house with 18inch thick granite walls. I wouldn’t be able to survive.
Is said it before and I’ll say it again: Because remember folks, no one used 2.4GHz before we had this WiFi stuff. Microwaves? Portable Phones? Medical Devices? Never existed until WiFi came around.
</facepalm>
A blonde joke courtesy of Google. →
Nothing against blondes, but this one reminds me of “write ‘flip over’ on both sides of a piece of paper” Recursion. lolwut? hat tip: Dangerboy
HiR Information Report is brought you…
Wi-fi waves make top DJ Steve Miller sick →
hilker:
“FOR Steve Miller a trip to his local High Street is a living hell that makes him sick, dizzy and confused.
Pubs make him feel the same and he can’t use trains, airports or hotels without experiencing head-banging agony.
But Steve doesn’t suffer from some strange phobia. He is allergic to wi-fi.
And sadly for him - and the other two per cent of the population with Electromagnetic...
Hacking Power: Feds Promise Smart Grid Security →
Holy crap, “Back doors”? What are we in? An Eddie Izzard routine?
“Breaking into the Smart Grid… Double-click on ‘Yes’… Oh. Password protected. Billion possible chances. “Hmmmm… Try ‘Jeff’” *beep* “Hey!” “How did you know it would be Jeff?” “I knew there’d be a back door. “And the...
Catching satellites on ham radio →
My favorite ham activity is making contacts via satellites. Not only is there the romantic notion of sending messages into outer space, but you have to trace the orbit of the satellite with…
AWH: Apollo-XIII (Apollo 13) →
Great beginner article on working HamSats →
This just showed up in my Twitter stream: A great article by Diana Eng, KC2UHB, on the MAKE blog regarding working Amateur Radio satellites. Diana is part of NYC Resistor, a hacker space based…
Internet Explorer 6 Must Die for the Web to Move... →
davereed:
“Why is 15 to 25 percent of the world’s browsing still done in a browser created in the digital Stone Age?”
Two reasons: There are “Enterprisey” apps that don’t work on IE7+ and do you want to go over to Aunt Ethel’s to update her PC? I didn’t think so.
Night Terrors →
She had entered a place she may not have wanted to go. Sixteen years old, visiting a local college with a friend when a light went on in her mind. The things we keep there, stored in a safe place are…
MANDIANT Memoryze: A memory forensic tool →
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Memoryze is nice, but I like Volatility better.
MANDIANT Memoryze is a sub-set of MANDIANT Intelligent Response (MIR). MIR is an enterprise-grade incident management…
70 years of Ted Turner →
Phew. I’m not the only one that thinks Headline News is total crap…
If you see Open0wn.c or 0wn0wn.c laying around,... →
I continue to see this code masquerading as the Zero-Day OpenSSH Exploit. It showed up on Pastebin today so I reported it as abusive. If you haven’t figured it out yet, this “exploit code” only…
Not everybody happy with commuter-rail WiFi →
Most of the tweets I see about WiFi on the rails (and there are quite a few) are positive. But Innismir shows not everybody’s happy.
black hat / defcon parties →
for those of you going to black hat / defcon. it’s a tentative list and a work in progress, but free booze requires preparation!
tuesday (07/28/2009)
?? Qualys Party
wednesday (07/29/2009)…
The Real Reason Behind The $23 Quadrillion Errors... →
The secret of the $23 quadrillion VISA debit errors looks like a specific and not uncommon programming error. Take the insanely large number, if you convert 2314885530818450000 to hexadecimal,…
Disaster Voyeurism →
The Disclosure Diaries
n0where:
(Originally posted at Liquidmatrix Security Digest)
I have a confession to make: I’m not a whiz-bang, controversial, rock star security researcher (go ahead, GASP!).
Oh Zach, you’ll always bee a rock star security researcher to me…
*sighs dreamily*
Not a bad idea by the way. This could be expanded into ISPs too regarding phishing/botnet/etc takedowns.