Clemens Vasters: Enterprise Development & Alien Abductions

Donnerstag, 23. Januar 2003

Radio discipline! I am in a "heavy coding" phase with about 5 projects (some serious, some play) going on concurrently. So, reminder to self, I shouldn't blog. My favorite "play" project is a pretty radical extension for Enterprise Services and COM+ - it's actually more a "new feature set" than a tool or wrapper. The last time I've written code based on analyzing hex-dumps was about 8 years ago; and now again. The only reason that I state this here is to force myself to actually get it done and make a binary drop available so that people can play with it - once there is a solution found for why it breaks Everett's GC.

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Master Key Copying Revealed

A security researcher has revealed a little-known vulnerability in many locks that lets a person create a copy of the master key for an entire building by starting with any key from that building. [...] After testing the technique repeatedly against the hardware from major lock companies, Mr. Blaze wrote, "it required only a few minutes to carry out, even when using a file to cut the keys." [nytimes.com -- free sign-up required]

Here comes the most expensive security vulnerability patch, ever.

Update: Slashdotted.

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