Ramblings & ephemera
From Bruce Schneier’s Crypto-Gram of 15 April 2004: My argument may not be obvious, but it’s not hard to follow, either. It centers around the notion that security must be evaluated not based on how it works, but on how it fails. It doesn’t really matter how well an ID card works when used by […]
Posted on September 8th, 2011 by Scott Granneman
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Posted on April 5th, 2009 by Scott Granneman
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From Robert Graham’s “PHPBB Password Analysis” (Dark Reading: 6 February 2009): A popular Website, phpbb.com, was recently hacked. The hacker published approximately 20,000 user passwords from the site. … This incident is similar to one two years ago when MySpace was hacked, revealing about 30,000 passwords. … The striking different between the two incidents is […]
Posted on March 10th, 2009 by Scott Granneman
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From John Harlow’s “Amateur crimefighters are surging in the US” (The Times: 28 December 2008): There are, according to the recently launched World Superhero Registry, more than 200 men and a few women who are willing to dress up as comic book heroes and patrol the urban streets in search of, if not super-villains, then […]
Posted on January 4th, 2009 by Scott Granneman
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Posted on November 30th, 2008 by Scott Granneman
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From Richard Stallman’s “Transcript of Richard Stallman at the 4th international GPLv3 conference; 23rd August 2006” (FSF Europe: 23 August 2006): Anyway, the term “intellectual property” is a propaganda term which should never be used, because merely using it, no matter what you say about it, presumes it makes sense. It doesn’t really make sense, […]
Posted on November 28th, 2008 by Scott Granneman
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From Chapter 2: Botnets Overview of Craig A. Schiller’s Botnets: The Killer Web App (Syngress: 2007): Default UserIDs Tried by RBot Here is a list of default userids that RBot uses. Administrator Administrador Administrateur administrat admins admin staff root computer owner student teacher wwwadmin guest default database dba oracle db2
Posted on November 22nd, 2008 by Scott Granneman
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From William Shakespeare’s Henry VI, part 1 (I: 6): CHARLES: Divinest creature, Astraea’s daughter, How shall I honour thee for this success? Astraea: in Greek religion and mythology, goddess of justice; daughter of Zeus and Themis. Because of the wickedness of man, she withdrew from the earth at the end of the Golden Age and […]
Posted on January 13th, 2007 by Scott Granneman
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From The New Yorker‘s “The Disappearing Poet” (4 July 2005): [Weldon] Kees himself was toiling on a script, a spy thriller called “Gadabout” … Kees was introduced as “Mr. Weldon Kees, poet, painter, artist, etcetera, composer, critic, etcetera, etcetera, ad infinitum.”
Posted on May 14th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From The New York Times Magazine‘s “Skin Literature“: Most artists spend their careers trying to create something that will live forever. But the writer Shelley Jackson is creating a work of literature that is intentionally and indisputably mortal. Jackson is publishing her latest short story by recruiting 2,095 people, each of whom will have one […]
Posted on April 1st, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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Posted on November 22nd, 2005 by Scott Granneman
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