@pmoriarty asks “What’s so scary about RPZ?” in reference to a couple of tweets of mine regarding DNS reputation blacklisting. So I’ll try to phrase a response. It’ll take more than 140 characters. First up, I want to be clear about the terms of the question – this is not a technical crit of RPZ, [...]
By someone’s request, one of my old demonstration programs: perl -nle ‘setpwent;crypt($_,$c)eq$c&&print”$u=$_”while($u,$c)=getpwent’ <dictfile …works on Unixes without shadow files / with NIS, or with root privilege. It’s hardly the most efficient way of doing a sweep for weak passwords, but there was a time where doing: echo changeme | perl -nle …cut-and-paste… …was horrifyingly effective [...]
lg handful chopped dates lg handful chopped dried apricots spoon sticky honey small splash water warm-through the above mixture (low heat) in a small saucepan until goopy and thoroughly mixed, and some of the water has evaporated off de-core 2+ cooking apples and score them equatorially with a knife tip stuff the hollow apple cores [...]
The jokes just write themselves… http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11062193 How do you un-glue a protester? Climate campaigners superglued themselves to a car park gate during a demonstration on Monday. How are they released? It is the latest tactic used by direct action activists to make sure they stick in the public consciousness – but you definitely should not [...]
This is great, until you get to the signature… What do they call him in private – “Head of Cognitive Bicycle Therapy?”
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OK – here’s a cool experiment – go to the NYT homepage and do a search on WikiLeaks and you’ll get the following search results and headline: Sweden Rescinds Warrant for WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange … Julian Assange was sought by Swedish prosecutors for questioning on rape allegations, but the prosecutors then said the accusations [...]
I was going to make this a longer and more academic blogpost, but today’s news (whatever the truth or falsehood behind it) makes it more pertinent than it has been for quite some time. To make the points briefly: Various governments want to shut-down WikiLeaks Various companies want to kill BitTorrent Yet more (often related) [...]