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List of Explosive Materials
posted by coderman at 2005-12-14 23:51

coderman: i'm still pissed amatuer rocketry got so screwed after 9/11
coderman: TATP - i bet this has the highest accidental maim/kill rate of any chemical on this list. heheh

Estimating and Comparing Entropy Across Written Natural Languages Using PPM Compression
posted by simmo at 2005-12-14 23:21

simmo: randomness estimates for different language texts compared to english, by compressing the text and measuring the entropy
simmo: all around the same as English, which is certainly less than 2 bits per character, and perhaps close to 1 bpc 1 2
simmo: but that doesn't count trolls trying to cause collisions in your wiki hashing database by injecting nonsense data .. you need to prune that out first
simmo: then set an upper page size and calculate how many bits of hash you need to use to ID the pages

JXTA - A Whole Lotta Nothing
posted by coderman at 2005-12-14 21:53

coderman: ouch!

Titan Rain: independant career blackhats or organized military operation
posted by coderman at 2005-12-14 20:17

coderman: in either case, i want to know more about these counter-hack attacks we've performed in retribution
coderman: titan rain attacks
coderman: "Of course it's the government. Governments will pay anything for control of other governments' computers. All governments will pay anything. It's so much better than tapping a phone."
coderman: <EvilAsh> ... anything?
coderman: bruce reminds us the current reports are low on detail and high on sensationalism

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8241737934
posted by huslage at 2005-12-14 19:02

huslage: We all need one of these.

http://www.virgingalactic.com/en/news.asp
posted by huslage at 2005-12-14 18:50

huslage: The hight of hedonism and egoism.

Brazil. Where death is illegal.
posted by rik at 2005-12-14 16:10

rik: "BIRITIBA MIRIM, Brazil (AP) -- There's no more room to bury the dead, they can't be cremated and laws forbid a new cemetery. So the mayor of this Brazilian farm town has proposed a solution: outlaw death."

./~ The Internet is for Pooooorn
posted by rik at 2005-12-14 14:35

rik: work-safe if you have no speakers.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Archive#cd-images
posted by Tonus at 2005-12-14 13:20

snakeoil.
posted by dreww at 2005-12-14 12:56

EU parliament votes for data retention plan
posted by seti at 2005-12-14 12:53

seti: bye-bye civil liberties. it was good having you.
coderman: Tor suddenly becomes very popular!

http://www.pillsbury.com/AALL/dancebuilder.aspx
posted by coderman at 2005-12-14 12:52

http://www.home.no/zepto/choices.jpg
posted by Oliver at 2005-12-14 11:20

Oliver: Bottom half!

google. the it workers enemy.
posted by simmo at 2005-12-14 11:19

<DannyB> some girl on the street asked if i was saved yet
posted by coderman at 2005-12-14 11:04

simmo: i saved at the checkout

nedit. it's all there is
posted by simmo at 2005-12-14 10:56

wow steaming hot chump action
posted by simmo at 2005-12-14 10:37

coderman: (^_^) !!! XOXOXO

<slashdot> is java a fad?
posted by coderman at 2005-12-14 10:37

coderman: more amorphous questions at 10
seti: at 10? early...

if it pop .. no one can mend it
posted by simmo at 2005-12-14 10:37

Get It Right
posted by seti at 2005-12-14 10:15

coderman: by J. Random Pedant
simmo: oh I thought that was J. Fucking Pedant

Devastating hack proven - Leon County dumps Diebold
posted by coderman at 2005-12-14 10:13

coderman: "Due to contractual non-performance and security design issues, Leon County (Florida) supervisor of elections Ion Sancho has announced that he will never again use Diebold in an election. He has requested funds to replace the Diebold system from the county."
coderman: "On Tuesday, the most serious “hack” demonstration to date took place in Leon County. The Diebold machines succumbed quickly to alteration of the votes. This comes on the heels of the resignation of Diebold CEO Wally O'Dell, and the announcement that a stockholder's class action suit has been filed against Diebold by Scott & Scott."
coderman: OH YEAH, DIE MOTHERFUCKER!!!
coderman: what is surprising is the stock went up when he resigned
coderman: i still the company is going to die though...
simmo: I am worried by this. My local ATM is made by Diebold. Where's my fucking money? Do they know?
simmo: who else knows?
coderman: [A law firm said it filed suit on Tuesday against Diebold Inc. alleging the voting-machine maker lacked sufficient internal controls, was unable to be confident in the quality of its voting machines and made misleading statements about its condition... lawsuit was filed by Scott + Scott LLC in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio and seeks class-action status|http://today.reuters.com/PrinterFriendlyPopup
coderman: sorry, link here
seti: ATMs in the Netherlands seem to be mostly Olivetti. luckily the PIN pad is a mostly autonomous system; also, the banks stand to lose money if the ATMs don't work correctly so they're held to a much larger standard than voting machines.

so much hash, so little cash, how do i choose?
posted by simmo at 2005-12-14 09:00

simmo: NESSIE survey
simmo: link stolen from tiger hash page .. tiger looks good considering momentum towards 64 bit

<burtonator> goatse photo stamps would RULE
posted by burtonator at 2005-12-14 07:59

1970s roller-skate jams
posted by cryptomail at 2005-12-14 07:30

Software Ciphers Suck! Software Ciphers Suck!
posted by coderman at 2005-12-14 06:53

coderman: (i'm trying to get intel / amd attention)
coderman: The Program Counter Security Model: Automatic Detection and Removal of Control-Flow Side Channel Attacks
coderman: Cache-timing attacks on AES
simmo: http://cr.yp.to/snuffle.html
simmo: drifting off topic ... DJB vs USA relating to snuffle
coderman: salsa++. basic summary: use 256bit keys. because it's not that much more work than 128bit keys.
simmo: you left out the bit about keep-it-simple-stupid .. risc-like/risc-friendly hashing ... repetitive simple ops, so that cache is used well, so more ops can be done to balance the simple ops being used .. => wide effective portability .. and then a crypto based on using hashes (the hases are no good for replacing md5 etc though because they are 1:1 size of input data :p )
coderman: cmon, software ciphers are so last millenium!
simmo: with clever small ciphers, hardware implementation is much easier/better/smaller
simmo: or anyway, that's what the page says
coderman: hardware block ciphers, hardware digests, hardware montgomery multipliers for pubkey, and hardware entropy sources. why isn't this in my CPU 5 years ago Intel/AMD???
coderman: it's a conspiracy i tell you! :P~

ISAKMP is a 0-day slut
posted by coderman at 2005-12-14 06:02

coderman: KAME sucks
coderman: i want a synchronized pre-shared key daemon that opens no slutty ports!
coderman: google: IPsec key daemon vulnerability = Results 1 - 100 of about 51,800

Ballad of Sweet Juliette and The Prince of Pleasure
posted by Zerodhero at 2005-12-14 00:55

Zerodhero: Now that is funny
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