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View a GPG/PGP key without importing it.
Sometimes I want to view a GPG/PGP public key, but I don’t want to import it into my key ring, so here’s how to just view it: gpg –with-fingerprint schwer.asc
Flickr
Flickr Flickr is a website for organizing, storing, and sharing your photos. You can find my photos here. The flickr page says “beta”, but like so many things marked “beta” these days it is production code and quite good. Images … Continue reading
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Know your Enemy: Tracking Botnets
Know your Enemy: Tracking Botnets “Honeypots are a well known technique for discovering the tools, tactics, and motives of attackers. In this paper we look at a special kind of threat: the individuals and organizations who run botnets. A botnet … Continue reading
T-Mobile Subscribers beware.
Full disclosure of T-Mobile flaw (Simple to fix never fixed) “Late last year I was in contact with T-Mobile’s CSO because of a major flaw in their voicemail platform. As of early February 2005, it was still vulnerable. Using my … Continue reading
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Regular Expression Library
Regular Expression Library Oh sweet nectar; a repository for your favorite regular expressions.
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SHA-1 Broken and GnuPG (GPG)
As noted on slashdot ([1] , [2]) earlier this week; famed cryptologist Bruce Schneier noted in his blog entry that the hashing algorithm SHA-1 had been successfully broken. While the new advances against SHA-1 are computationally feasible they are still … Continue reading
DomainKeys
DomainKeys is Yahoo!’s answer to fighting SPAM. Along the same lines as SPF; using Public Key Cryptography we can verify the authenticity of the message’s sender and that the message has not been alterted in transit; thus allowing us to … Continue reading
Hacking the Starbucks Barista Digital Italia Espresso Machine
The Starbucks Barista Digital Italia Espresso Machine is a marvel of coffee technology … when it works. Unfortunately all this technology is easily thwarted when a small plastic tab on the inside of the door breaks. The system then thinks … Continue reading
MPlayer and FireFox
Unfortunately many of the big media players have not made native Linux players or plugins for their popular formats (Windows Media, QuickTime); so just trying to be a normal person and watch movie trailers online through my browser is a … Continue reading
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Sage: An RSS Reader for Firefox
Sage is an RSS reader extension for FireFox. It makes keeping up on all those blogs very easy.
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Court Limits Privacy Of E-Mail Messages
A Washington Post article reports that anyone providing email services to you is allowed to read your email: A company that provides e-mail service has the right to copy and read any message bound for its customers, a federal appeals … Continue reading
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Google Doodles
Google Doodles are those ever changing banners that Google puts up on their website. Now meet the man behind all those Google Doodles. See his Google Blog entry.
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Linux Kernel 2.6 and Touchpad Problem
I was having a problem with my Dell Inspiron 2100′s touchpad after the upgrade to Mandrake 10.0; the touchpad worked fine when I used the 2.4 kernel, but failed to click using the 2.6 kernel. This site fixed all my … Continue reading