It is time to wipe out the dust and disclose more x-files from my personal archives. Some of you have asked and waited for this particular one for few years already. Thus, without further ado, let me to introduce SMACADU – Smart Card Digging (or “Dumb” if you wish) Utilities. It is a set […]
Last week I went on a quest to find the simple, lightweight and portable e-mail client to put on a USB drive. Additional requirements for the client were to be free and support encodings. Surprisingly, it was the tough quest. After browsing through potential candidates (most of them were just ugly and clumsy, honestly), three […]
It is a general misconception that NSA involvement made Windows Vista more secure. NSA may certainly know stuff about cryptography but they are only humans. Thus, when it came to security, they suck like everybody else. Here is a cross-site script (XSS) vulnerability at the NSA web site for a sample:
http://www.nsa.gov/notices/notic00004.cfm?Address=”%20onmouseover=”alert(’boo’)
(go to ACCEPT link at […]
This is not something new exactly. I first came up with this idea few years ago and it was published and discussed many times since then. The idea is quite simply so a lot of people came up with it themselves as well. I claim neither rights nor priority for this idea.
There are three […]
Let’s talk about fingerprint systems. They suck. A fingerprint is an easily compromisable and, once compromised, is a non-replaceable object. And there is a limited stock. So, at the end, all these “give-me-a-correct-finger-and-I-will-let-you-in” systems are neither secure enough nor reliable. They need to be improved and here is the idea: a “Masonic touch”. Instead of […]
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