ax0n

17 ms·

121.
by ax0n 16y ago
I find it hard to believe that a plane's avionics are sufficiently shielded to withstand a direct lightning strike, but one person's phone will crash the plane. I've heard other explanations, too, such as the fact that too many mobile tower
122.
ChemHacker Open-Source Scanning Tunneling Microscope(chemhacker.com)
2 points by ax0n 16y ago|0 comments
123.
by ax0n 16y ago
This is true. He bought it, didn't build it from scratch, and he most certainly has concerns above and beyond what the average bar owner faces. Of course, the average bar owner in San Francisco seems to face quite a bit more trouble than a
124.
by ax0n 16y ago
Further, as a nerd who lives in flyover country but has at least made the mandatory pilgrimage to San Francisco, I think jwz offers some (admittedly jaded) insight into the culture of SF as a whole. The dnalounge blog and his own LJ feed ar
125.
by ax0n 16y ago
They're tasty, and they're made of meat. Who cares? The rectum is just an extension of the intestines, and intestines are used for all kinds of stuff.
126.
by ax0n 16y ago
I'm a big fan of the BSD and Apache licenses. For being "Free," the GPL sure does put a lot of restrictions on what one may or may not do with a given piece of code.
127.
by ax0n 16y ago
December 31, 1996. My grandfather, who repaired hospital blood lab equipment such as centrifuges and microscopes told his customers he was shutting down. January 17, 1997. My grandfather was tying twine around a box holding a microscope for
128.
by ax0n 16y ago
Most "corporate firewalls" are egress filters with a proxy server, and proxy servers won't just barf IRC packets to a box on port 80. Some will barf random non-SSL traffic to port 443, though.
129.
by ax0n 16y ago
The fact that you're trying to perpetuate IRC in a time after the nineteen-hundreds is admirable, but the protocol itself is somewhat broken. I mean, it'd be great if a network offered Public Key Infrastructure for authentication (non-spoof
130.
by ax0n 16y ago
I know it's ingrained into the culture of HN and other sites, but karma is dumb. In response to the bury, let me clarify. On HN, upvotes and downvotes allow a comment to stand on its own merit. Using amassed karma to determine the quality o
131.
by ax0n 16y ago
Positively amazing! And I'm not even a fiction reader.
132.
by ax0n 16y ago
I already have a commercial system (with some homebrew, of course) that correlates, but I absolutely love playing with new things. I'll get this going in a lab soon. Thanks for sharing!
133.
by ax0n 16y ago
That was, of course, hyperbole (about blowing up my phone) however on certain very sensitive systems I do have a kernel module that provides a wrapper to execve() and that goes directly to a remote logging server and gets replicated. Yes, i
134.
by ax0n 16y ago
It's true. You could. But that shell and the activities therein would get logged in places that would make it hard for most attackers to cover their tracks. Mandatory Access Control and privilege separated daemons should also severely limit
135.
by ax0n 16y ago
I [Like] this.
136.
by ax0n 16y ago
I don't generally talk in public forum about the specific products I use, but if you want to play with an IDS at home: snort or suricata would be good toys to play with. In the enterprise, there are so many IDS/IDP and SIEM products out the
137.
by ax0n 16y ago
No, I'm saying an attacker would also have to find and destroy the immutable central logging store that all the stuff goes to. They'd also have to reach through the sands of time to get the stuff that's already been blowing up my phone. Get
138.
by ax0n 16y ago
Please. No attack is perfectly stealth. Keep in mind I've played both sides of this game. People who know how attacks work in the wild can usually spot things that might not raise the ire of average sysadmins.
139.
by ax0n 16y ago
From the perspective of an information security researcher with plenty of time spent working on both sides of the issue, I can tell you that any attacker worth their salt will be persistent and use multiple attack vectors to get what they w
140.
by ax0n 16y ago
Bad news about Adobe DOES smell good. Their ubiquitous products with their zero-day vulnerabilities and constantly relentless patches have been a thorn in my side this year.
141.
by ax0n 16y ago
McClure's post looks like the emails the whole company used to get from my menopausal VP back in 2001.
142.
by ax0n 16y ago
Relevant: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/cartoon_the_only_consta...
143.
100 years ago, the New York Times predicted cars would be abolished today(io9.com)
2 points by ax0n 16y ago|0 comments
144.
Samba (us1.samba.org)
1 points by ax0n 16y ago|0 comments
145.
by ax0n 16y ago
It's really funny how I came across all of the "RSS is dead" stuff in Google Reader. Then I see people saying "I just use $PLATFORM to stay current" where $PLATFORM is Facebook, Twitter, FriendFeed or any of a litany of other half-baked web
146.
Our Car-Based Environments Are Making Us Sick(streetsblog.net)
1 points by ax0n 16y ago|0 comments
147.
You were saying? (There is no "I" in "TEAM")(thedailywh.at)
1 points by ax0n 16y ago|0 comments
148.
by ax0n 16y ago
Some of TechCrunch's postings have been real winners. Although I probably wouldn't really want to go there, they usually seem to care more about the candidate's passions than their experience and education. I'm sure once you get into the h
149.
by ax0n 16y ago
I don't encrypt my laptop's hard drive. Most of the files on my laptop are mundane: Photos, music, some documents. Everything on my laptop is important enough to back up, but not important enough that I'd care if they were published on the
150.
by ax0n 16y ago
More than 2 years old... But I digress. The real lesson here is that generally, physical access is ultimate access.

More ›