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SOFTWARE CIPHERS NEED TO DIE!

Crazy-Long Hacker Sentence Upheld
posted by coderman at 2006-07-11 20:50

coderman: "A federal appeals court upheld a nine-year prison term Monday for a hacker who tried and failed to steal customer credit-card numbers from the Lowe's chain of home improvement stores."
coderman: 9 years! good job!
coderman: FBI infragard tried to entrap me once, asked for a full copy of our wireless dumps. "oops, that'd be illegal!"
coderman: fuck all these idiots using excessive incarceration in a futile attempt to patch a flawed deployment or technology
coderman: Assistant U.S. attorney Matthew Martens, who prosecuted the case, said the sentence is long, but appropriate. "I hope it achieves, not only justice in this case, but deterrence to other people thinking about doing something similar," - YOU GET THAT MESSAGE, H4X0RZ?!?
Mutiny: Interesting word coined by Adrian Lamo in the comments: "sardonitopian"

"Google confirms opening of Michigan plant"
posted by est at 2006-07-11 19:38

est: only in michigan is a google office a "plant"

switching from SHA-1 to Tiger ? (hi Zooko!)
posted by coderman at 2006-07-11 19:20

coderman: "Yesterday I profiled my on-line data backup application [1] and discovered that for certain operations one third of the time is spent in SHA-1. For that reason, I've been musing about the possibility of switching away from SHA-1. Not to SHA-256 or SHA-512, but to Tiger."
coderman: i have a better suggestion: SHA and other crypto ON DIE! SHA2-256 is fucking fast on the new C5J padlock core.
coderman: this software cipher bullshit needs to die already

Waterken Web Calculus is now "webkeys"
posted by coderman at 2006-07-11 19:11

coderman: yay, a much better name, more intuitive.

Alan Karp TechTalk lecture series
posted by coderman at 2006-07-11 19:10

Hamdan sounds the death knell for the NSAs Terrorist Surveillance Program
posted by coderman at 2006-07-11 18:53

coderman: but rather than appreciate the rule of law over totalitarian executive supreme overlordness, this article builds a shocking love for an unaccountable executive in the name of war and state secrets.
coderman: FUCK PROBABLE CAUSE, FUCK FAIR TRIALS, THIS IS WAR! RAH!! BE SCARED FOR YOUR LIVES!!
coderman: what's also really scary is that this vote in Hamdan was so close. 1 justice man! JUST ONE!
coderman: over fucking indefinite detention centers in CUBA. could there be anything more un-american? (maybe the kidnapping and torture "special rendition" program)

Out to Launchd
posted by coderman at 2006-07-11 18:46

coderman: "Anyone who has ever run Activity Monitor (in the Utilities folder) and chosen Administrator Processes from the pop-up menu is aware that a Mac OS X computer is actually a hotbed of little programs that start automatically and whose purposes are probably unclear."
coderman: "This is not usually a source of concern; most of these programs were put there by Apple and are part of Mac OS X. Ignorance is Bliss, and Big Brother Knows Best."
coderman: "Recently, though, a new and unknown process, "dashboardadvisor", has been making an occasional appearance on the Activity Monitor scene."
coderman: "What's more, users of Objective Development's Little Snitch utility, which intercepts outgoing network connections, were alerted to the fact that such a connection was precisely what this process, each time it runs, was attempting to form."
coderman: "It was connecting with a server at apple.com. Your computer, in popular parlance, was "phoning home!" This discovery cued the usual spate of reactionary and indiscriminate Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt: Big Brother, so far from Knowing Best, was apparently Watching You."
coderman: "In case you haven't been paying attention, PRIVACY IS DEAD, SO SHUT THE FUCK AND STEP LIVELY, COMRADE"

http://www.macjesusx.com/
posted by nym at 2006-07-11 18:14

nym: MacJesusX... Another Fine Lamprey Systems Product!
nym: Minimum: - G3 Processor; 128 MB RAM; Mac OS X v10.2
coderman: "Diagnose and absolve sins with a touch of a button!" - now that's a savior who knows how to market to the people!
nym: Use of this program may result in data loss, demonic possession and eternal damnation.

GigaBeam High-Speed Radio Link Encryption
posted by coderman at 2006-07-11 17:41

coderman: AES-GCM - niice!
coderman: OAKLEY - hahah, not so nice. oakley's a slut!
coderman: IKE? also slutty.
coderman: but not much worse than most key exchange protocols. Hmm, they should title this: "Pushing IPsec down to Layer 2"
coderman: sorry, it should be called "Embracing and Extending IPsec Key Management for Proprietary $$$"

What are your neighbors watching on tv?
posted by minddog at 2006-07-11 17:23

Phishers Spoof 2-Factor Auth
posted by huslage at 2006-07-11 16:51

Jeremy Clarkson: The united states of total paranoia
posted by seti at 2006-07-11 11:30

also: "incompetent water board officials and stabbed Glaswegians"
seti: On an unrelated note, Wimbledon is over and Top Gear continues this weekend.

Brought to you by the line-seperator-sequence [C285|http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/0085/index.htm]
posted by also at 2006-07-11 10:43

also: and letter ÿ
also: people can justify anything
also: these things breed faster than friggin lice
also: http://www.w3.org/TR/newline

http://www.piratejesus.com/nerdcore/017.html
posted by rik at 2006-07-11 10:06

Gone in the Blastwave
posted by Mutiny at 2006-07-11 05:02

also: watch for the ellipsis

Army hits June recruiting goal
posted by cryptomail at 2006-07-11 03:59

Mutiny: Army able to meet quota of ill educated inner city youth and white supremacists.

Cutting out the Naughty Bits Ruled Illegal
posted by coderman at 2006-07-11 01:10

'Universal' memory chip ready for market
posted by coderman at 2006-07-11 01:06

coderman: "loldongs, your moving parts data storage is so 20th century! l4m4!"

Rich get richer, poor get poorer, read more here.
posted by anomie at 2006-07-11 00:02

coderman: same as it ever was. yawn
coderman: revolutions are typically when wealth gets "re-balanced".
    
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