Alan Turing Petition
An appeal to UK citizens to sign the petition to rehabilitate Alan Turing.
Archive of entries posted on August 2009
Good Bye, Ted Kennedy
Ted Kennedy is rightly seen as America’s social conscience in the Senate. Even though he didn’t oppose the DMCA abomination in 1998, he’ll be fondly remembered as a great and compassionate politician and human being.
Ads: the new captchas?
Microsoft applied for a patent on ad-based captchas.
TPB’s routing woes
The Pirate Bay trackers are down because of missing BGP route advertisement to their tracker’s subnet.
Why Russia should join NATO
Russia should join NATO to prevent China from co-opting the US military for its needs.
USAF Lullaby Ad
Looking for the US Airforce “Lullaby Ad”
Public Key Infrastructure with OpenSSL
This post describes what a PKI is, how to set up a Certification Authority (CA) with openssl, and how to manage trust in public keys, thwarting Mallory’s man in the middle attacks.