just act like you know what you are doing
…and I can type it entirely with my left hand.
Interesting new possibilities in efficiency are afoot!
Here are the characters available (assuming I break the rule about using the opposite-hand shift key):
(thirteen letters)
…and the right hand:
(eleven letters)
(both numbers are prime)
Filed under: Computers, Funny, SecuritySo this is an obvious application of internet + google + webcams: http://www.opentopia.com/hiddencam.php. I suppose this is a lesson in one way that “security through obscurity” doesn’t work. I find it interesting that none of the area’s zillions of traffic cams or the Nationals’ stadium construction webcam are in their list.
Note that the pictures of the girls at the bottom are links to, uhm, “personal” webcams (the for-profit kind).
Filed under: Security, The InternetIt has been out for a few days, but I’d like to draw your attention to a recent article in The Guardian newspaper about the Hunt for Russia’s web criminals. There are lots of levels of Bad Guys making trouble on the Internet, this group just happens to be among the baddest. And I don’t mean that in a good way.
Filed under: Security, The InternetDo you ever wonder why you get so much junk email? Do you ever wonder how many people actually buy pills based on those advertisements? Do you ever wonder where the money goes? Ever wonder where it comes from? What about all that scary talk where your social security number and identity can be stolen from your computer (or off of the servers of any site you share that information with)? It is all part of what one guy I know calls “the underground economy”. I think that’s an accurate assessment. Here’s a link to a fairly academic, very thorough paper on how it all works.
http://www.icir.org/vern/papers/miscreant-wealth.ccs07.pdf
Spoiler alert: they do it for money.
There are exactly two things that make “the world go ’round” and influence the majority of human behavior; money and sex. In this case, it’s the former.
Filed under: Security, The InternetYay! Over a month after the previous draft expired, we’ve posted a new version of our Internet Draft document.
Filed under: documentation, Real Life, Security, The InternetIn the course of my work today I ran across a pair of links produced by Jose Nazario of Arbor networks who spends a lot of time analyzing rootkits and viruses. He’s created a couple of handy lists of free anti-rootkit and free anti-virus packages. Now, normally I try to avoid Windows (and also plague), but every so often I get a panicked call from a friend who is trying to salvage a PC from the ravages of some malware. Because they are my friend they put up with my snarky comments for a while and because I am their friend I attempt to help them. For now, I will just direct them to these lists and consider my duty to the poor Windows-saddled user to be done thus leaving me more time for snarky comments.
Filed under: Computers, Security, The Internet
There are more here that are really funny (I guess I should qualify that by saying that they’re really funny if you are an information/network security geek). This one is another that includes Santa Clause but raises a whole bunch of questions.
Filed under: Funny, SecurityI just noticed this article in the latest print/online version of Wired Magazine: Wired 14.11: Attack of the Bots. Fascinating. This is my favorite part:
Whatever it was, it worked.
Muahahahaa!
Filed under: Security, workIf you have stuff you need to keep to yourself, this seems like a good way to do it…
TrueCrypt - Free Open-Source On-The-Fly Disk Encryption Software for Windows XP/2000 and Linux
…it shows up as a “drive” in the operating system but the whole thing is just one file.
Filed under: Security
