No punchline required
sth posted in most unnecessary on April 24th, 2007
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A most hilarious data leak.
No punchline required
The NSA teaches us how to scrub documents
sth posted in most unnecessary, very bored on February 24th, 2006
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If you’ve always wished you could “redact with confidence”, then here’s the document for you. NSA published a guide on scrubbing Word documents, removing hidden meta-data and proper graphic censoring. Apparently people didn’t know that just drawing a black box widget over something in Word doesn’t actually remove or even hide the content well. I don’t think I’ve ever seen word “redact” used so frequently/frivolously. I think I just like hot-linking to the NSA.
holi-daze
sth posted in most unnecessary on December 25th, 2005
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Happy holidays everyone. Not too much going on, but I thought that I’d post on a couple random things.
First, we had a good mini-meeting week before last. We got a decent amount of code out for wicrawl, and had a good time doing it. We’re well on our way, and I’m really hoping to have an alpha, or something demo-able out by shmoocon (Jan 13th-15th, check it out, we’ll be there).
This is kind of interesting. It’s the robots.txt from whitehouse.gov (in other words it’s everything that they don’t want google, or your favorite search engines to see). Nothing worth going conspiracy theory over since it’s just a public website, but interesting nontheless.
Speaking of wireless, here is some info on wi-fi hacking at 30,000 feet (wi-fi services in airplanes), but nothing really new.
This is a pretty big brother-like move for the UK. In the next year they claim they are going to start monitoring the auto traffic of _every_ car on the road and will keep those records around for two years.
That’s all for now. Have a great rest of the year.
buffer overflows
sth posted in most unnecessary on November 9th, 2005
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Wired magazine created a sadly hilarious flash animation of the buffer overflow. It does, however, appear to be written at the appropriate level for most of the people I’ve met on the internet. Aleph One would be sad.
Here’s a bonus animation on race conditions.
Also amusing — This is wired’s image for “evilhacker”.
Playing with Decipher Dog
sth posted in most unnecessary, slacking on November 9th, 2005
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Uh, wow.
(from http://www.nsa.gov/kids/ )
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Hi Kids!
Welcome to the NSA/CSS Kids page.
We’re the CryptoKids and we love cryptology.
What’s cryptology? Cryptology is making and breaking codes. It’s so cool. We make codes so we can send secret messages to our friends. And we try to figure out what other people are writing about by breaking their codes. It’s a lot of fun.
On this site, you can learn all about codes and ciphers, play lots of games and activities, and get to know each of us - Crypto Cat™, Decipher Dog™, Rosetta Stone, Slate, Joules, T.Top, and, of course, our leader CSS Sam.
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I like how they actually bothered to trademark all of the characters…
