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Archive of posts filed under the Computers category.
The Pirate Bay Leaks User Data Like A Sieve
The Pirate Bay’s user database was hacked by an Argentinian security researcher, who got access to IP addresses and E-Mails of torrent uploaders. TPB failure to hash those very sensitive data before storing them in their database is a major FAIL w.r.t. data protection.
FireGPG is Dead
FireGPG development has just been discontinued.
Hello, World on the Bare Metal
In this tutorial, we invoke BIOS functions (which are fortunately available in Real Mode) to write a simple string on the screen. This assembly program doesn’t require an operating system kernel, and runs on bare metal.
Brazil and Germany Leading in Google Data Removal Requests
Brazil’s Government issued 291 data removal requests to Google in 2009, followed by Germany (188), India (142), and the United States (123). Regarding Web Search censorship, Germany is leading with 94 requests, followed by Argentina (31), the United States (20) and Brazil (9). However, the “enemies of the Internet” don’t show up in this “hall of shame,” because they have their own censorship infrastructure and don’t need cooperation from Google.
Unix copyrights belong to Novell, not SCO
In the Novell vs. SCO trial, a jury in Utah decided that Unix copyrights didn’t go to SCO. This is an epic win for the Linux community and Novell, but since Novell didn’t clarify their position w.r.t. non-Linux based Unix-derivatives, OpenSolaris may now be in hot waters — again! Let’s hope that Novell won’t harass the OpenSolaris community.
Google leaving China?
Google would rather leave China than continue censoring search results to Chinese users. While that’s a great proof of “don’t be evil”, how comes Google happily censors localized results in various countries, and bows to DMCA-style US censorship without much public protest? What’s REALLY going on between Google and China?
The Story of Mel, a Real Programmer
Did the legendary Mel contribute to the BSD/SunOS/OpenSolaris kernel codebase?
An Algorithm for Resilient Botnets
Current botnets use a pseudo-random sequence of domains to host their moving C&Cs. This post shows the drawbacks of this clever approach and proposes a little enhancement to the names generating algorithm.
Good Bye, Kamp DSL!
Since Kamp Netzwerkdienste GmbH are giving their private DSL customers the boot, I’ve decided to give Manitu a try. Interestingly, multihoming Kamp and Manitu on the same T-DSL link from the Deutsche Telecom (T-Com) is impossible: one can use only one ISP at a time, even though one can setup one as the primary, and the other as the backup ISP, should an ISP drop its PPPoE tunnel in the T-DSL backbone.