Fun
“Hooker” approach to break-in!
Interesting post on cost/benefit analysis of hacker and hooker attacks…. behrang
We going to sue and make Squillions…..
or maybe not…
The twitters informed me that Singe uncovered a case of brand plagiarism!!!1!
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So lets review..
the logo looks shockingly the same they no doubt, behind closed doors refer to themselves as SP too just based on their staff numbers, they probably have 16 good looking people there too! i had the lawyers lined up but decided to dig more info. on them first..
A truly sweet hack!
[Solve mazes with Photoshop (or gimp)]
i must confess that while i understand the logic of flood-fill doing a depth first search and therefor doing the lifting for u, my gimp skills are second only to my MS-Word skills and i have managed to burn about 40 minutes this morning still unable to replicate it (there goes my report writing!)
/mh
Education and Things u know u dont know…
A completely non-security related (but totally geek) blog that always makes me smile is [http://indexed.blogspot.com/]. We had just started the week (or ended the last one) with a conversation on how strange it was, that some people manage to remain suprememly confident while talking authoratively on subjects they know precious little about…
From our mouths, to Jessica’s pen:
pwnies video posted online..
The video of the much publicized pwnie awards has been posted to the interwebs [gvideo link]
Locals (SensePosters) can grab a copy [here] I believe it featured HalVar rapping so it should be worth at least a listen to :>
/mh
PS. i heard the first 3 minutes which included Alex Sotirov mention how >30 equates to over the hill, and humbly sumbit Malcolm Gladwells recent speech in silent 3rd hand rebuttal. [Age before beauty – the difference between young geniuses and old masters]
Forget the python vs ruby discussions..
Cause this puts Perl right back in the game!
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> sudo perl -MCPAN -e shell
cpan> install Acme::LOLCAT
install — OK
> cat demo.pl #!/usr/bin/perl
use Acme::LOLCAT;
print translate($ARGV[0]);
> ./demo.pl “Im going to run all emails through this before sending”
IM GOINS 2 RUN ALL EMAILZ THROUGH THIZ BEFORE SENDIN
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ahhh.. MUH WORK AR DONE HERE
This has nothing to do with anything technical..
but since it made me eat crow, i figured i would share it..
Although i read a fair bit, i stopped really reading fiction many many moons ago. Its something i often feel ill try to get back into when im a little older with more time (like playing golf), but right now it somehow always feels like fiction pieces give off less real information than their non-fiction counterparts..
To this end, i got through about 0.5 of one of the harry potter books, before deciding that it wasnt for me (but still stood in the queue at midnight for the final book because Deels has always been nuts about it..)
Its my SensePostaversary!
Whoa! time flies when you having fun…
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Write a paper? or nip down for a pint?
Apparently the two _are_ mutually exclusive.. [according to the NY Times…]
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According to the study, published in February in Oikos, a highly respected scientific journal, the more beer a scientist drinks, the less likely the scientist is to publish a paper or to have a paper cited by another researcher, a measure of a paperâ€s quality and importance.
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Veni, Vidi, Damni
At last years BlackHat USA a bunch of us played some American geeks a game of late night parking lot football.. Our victory there, and the 6 months of victorious memories from that night filled us with enough false self confidence to take on the SBG guys last night..
While several of us are claiming altitude differences as the root cause of the bad result, those in the game with a keener eye (and longer memory) will long recall that the (almost) final kick of the match was a missed opportunity to equalise that could have been scored by my grandmother (with her wooden leg). (we will not name the culprit who missed this gift-wrapped goal, because i dont want to people to know it was me)