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« Previous EntriesGenerate MD5 Checksums on Windows
Saturday, November 21st, 2009How do you know, for sure, that the file you’ve download has been transferred correctly ? The UNIX (and by extension, internet) standard has, for years, been checking the md5 hash. Now, there’s plenty of info on the web about creating or checking MD5 or SHA-1 checksums for UNIX or Linux users, but not [...]
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Wednesday, July 29th, 2009From A Day in the Life of an Information Security Investigator, currently attending the Black Hat Technical Security Conference:
Here’s some early feedback for the folks connecting to wireless networks around BlackHat (and soon to be at DefCon).
Y’all aren’t taking this whole secure-communications thing too seriously.
Clear-text POP3/IMAP e-mail credentials are getting plucked out of the air [...]
Looking for a Life Partner Who Looks Like Your Favorite Actor or Actress
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009In a move that could stir up some controversy, Bharat Matrimony, one of most popular matrimonial website in India, has launched a facial recognition feature to help you search for a potential life partner who looks similar to your favorite film actor or actress.
You can either limit your partner search to a selected set of [...]
ACMA blacklist leaked online
Thursday, March 19th, 2009Too many people knew of the existence of the blacklist. Too many people had motives to see it leaked. Of course, MEGAUPLOAD text file of the ACMA blacklist.
By the way, there are serious issues at stake here.
There is a also PDF version of the ACMA blacklist at whatsup.
Update:
Update of Australian government secret ACMA internet [...]
Easy to generate different password for each site
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009from The Next Web, a usefull methodology that will generate a different password for every site you visit.
Step 1) Pick one alphanumeric password you know you will always remember. Something like: “tuca3212″
Step 2) From now on just remember that above alphanumeric password and add the first 4 letters of every sites name before (or [...]
Madoff Fraud
Monday, December 15th, 2008The Wall St Journal has plenty of stories on what’s shaping up to be the largest fraud case of all time:
Bernard L. Madoff, a former chairman of the Nasdaq Stock Market and a force in Wall Street trading for nearly 50 years, was arrested by federal agents Thursday, a day after his sons turned him [...]
Circumventing Internet Censorship #1
Monday, November 10th, 2008AlwaysVPN, a free virtual private networking service, is promoted as a way for anyone to browse the web or trading files over a public net connection. And, by the way, it also lets anyone on the outside of a U.S.-only service like Hulu or Pandora get around that often arbitrary restriction.
Hotspot Shield is a [...]
Response to “Christian Lobby Welcomes ISP Filtering Moves”
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008The Australian Christian Lobby have issued a press release welcoming the Australian ISP Filtering Moves PDF. Here’s my response
Hi Jim,
I doubt you remember me, but we’ve met twice at Shellharbour COC and you also spoke at a course I was attending , ran by Warwick Marsh of the Fatherhood Foundation. I’d [...]
Is the post 9/11 World Turning against Photography ?
Monday, August 11th, 2008Photographer Thomas Hawk was thrown out of the the Museum has posted publicly that it now allowed photography (search for cameras), Hawk had confirmed the rule directly with the museum, and Hawk had subsequently joined as a paid member of the museum due to the open photography policy.
Hawk’s full post
10 Reasons Enterprises Aren’t Ready to Trust the Cloud
Thursday, July 31st, 2008from gigaom…. To summarise,
It’s not secure. Certain companies and industries have to maintain strict watch on their data at all times, either because they’re legally obligated to or because they’re super paranoid.
It can’t be logged, required for compliance purposes.
It’s not platform agnostic. If you need to support multiple platforms, as most enterprises do, then you’re [...]