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Almost doghoused

Today I’ve found Spynote (one of my projects) dragged into the Schneier’s doghouse debates. It is always amazes me how easily people jumps into the mentor’ shoes on a subject they have very basic idea and assumes an opponent to be a clueless dumbhead. Not just for these debates but in general.
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RFID trolley also can

Cold Storage will introduce RFID-enabled trolley: “The trolley … will be able to identify the shopper’s location and … will be able to display information such as product locations and targeted advertisements”
Nice, but what we really need here is a trolley with a kangaroo bumper in front. Oh, wait – it would be a […]

Multics OS

The source code for the final Multics release is available at MIT
http://web.mit.edu/multics-history/
A good piece of history or nostalgie, depending on who is looking.

Cipher DAGs

When I wrote “I also have picked up couple interesting thoughts during Raffael Marty’s talk on Insider Threat Visualization“, I meant something like this work by Daniel J. Bernstein on tools to diagram cryptographic algorithms (pdf, 523kb) So, I do not need to do it myself. Nice. Looking forward for public release of cipherdag package.
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Hack in the Box 2007 - II

Read also: HITB 2007, Day 1
The beginning of the last (second) day was all about old school, keynoted by Mark Abene (Phiber Optik) and by Eric Gordon Coley (Emmanuel Goldstein). They both talked about what happens to be already an ancient history for majority of audience. The good thing both speakers brought a subject that […]