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Saturday, July 03, 2004
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Tiger Slideshow: Pretty Mac OS X Pictures |
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SecurityFocus Vulns
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Vulns: Juniper JUNOS Packet Forwarding Engine IPv6 Denial of Service Vulnerability. Juniper routers running JUNOS use a Packet Forwarding Engine (PFE) to forward packets to specified destinations.
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Juniper routers running the JUNOS operating system are r... |
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RDF For Desktop Metadata? |
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Boing Boing
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Shannon Plumb's short online films.
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NYC-based Shannon Plumb makes odd little movies with a Super 8 camera, and you can watch them online. Quirky, funky -- like something Jacques Tati and Charlie Chaplin would brainstorm over a drink in a Brooklyn dive bar.
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New fiction novel features characters who plot to kill the prez. A new, 115-page fiction book from otherwise easygoing author Nicholson Baker features a pair of protagonists who discuss ways to assasinate George W. Bush.
To threaten to kill the president in real life is illegal. To explore such a topic in fiction is presumably protected by the First Amendment.
They don't actually do the deed, or even attempt it, but the book is - according to early snippets - replete with deep-seated anger and elegantly nasty epithets hurled at both the President and his cabinet. Mr Baker's publisher, Alfred Knopf, plans to release the book on 24 August, on the eve of the Republican National Convention in New York. To call it a provocation would be an understatement. The author and publishers have no intention of giving anybody ideas - to do so would be a criminal offence - but they are certainly playing very close to the edge in a United States that, in the wake of the 11 September attacks, has shown no compunction about locking people up and asking questions later.
There was no immediate official reaction yesterday after extracts from Checkpoint were published in The Washington Post. A spokesman for the Secret Service, the uniformed outfit charged with protecting the President and other officials, told the Post merely that "without seeing the work, a determination can't be made at this time".
Link (Thanks, Susannah) |
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How Many TV Channels Will There Be In The Future? |
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BugTraq: [SECURITY] [DSA 526-1] New webmin packages fix multiple vulnerabilities. Sender: Matt Zimmerman [mdz at debian dot org] |
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BugTraq: [SECURITY] [DSA 527-1] New pavuk packages fix buffer overflow. Sender: Matt Zimmerman [mdz at debian dot org] |
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Crackers Unleash Spyware Tactics on IE Holes |
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thttpd Query String URL Non-local Referer Check Bypass |
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thttpd Double Dot Virtual Host Directory Listing |
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thttpd Unknown sockaddr Type DoS |
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MHonArc MIME Filter IMG Tag XSS |
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MHonArc MIME Header Name XSS |
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Gentoo esearch eupdatedb Insecure Temporary File Creation |
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Dick Cheney "Fuck Yourself" t-shirts, trucker hats. It was inevitable. Get 'em while they last.
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Knit-your-own edible thong underwear. Only 302 calories, knit 'em yourself from Twizzlers. Dawn Payne, the crafty chick who designed them says: "Like all fine lingerie, these panties are very delicate. Knit gently. If you need your L-string to last longer than a few hours before use, you will need to keep the panties moist. This can be accomplished by wrapping the panties in plastic, or for extended storage needs, spraying with a vegetable oil spray and then wrapping. Adjustable to fit most any consenting adult!" Link (via Fleshbot) |
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Shannon Plumb's short online films.
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NYC-based Shannon Plumb makes odd little movies with a Super 8 camera, and you can watch them online. Quirky, funky -- like something Jacques Tati and Charlie Chaplin would brainstorm over a drink in a Brooklyn dive bar.
Link (via collette)
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Robotic skin. Interesting article about a new design for "electronic skin" as sensitive to touch as our own:
"Recognition of tactile information will be very important for future generations of robots," says Takao Someya at the University of Tokyo who developed the skin. A sense of touch would help them to identify objects, carry out delicate tasks and avoid collisions. But while a lot of effort has gone into vision and voice recognition for robots, touch sensitivity is still fairly rudimentary.
Our own skin contains a battery of touch receptors that produce nerve signals when pressed. For gentle pressures, the main sensors are tiny bulbs of layered tissue called Meissner's corpuscles. Their behaviour is mimicked in plastics such as polyvinylidene fluoride, which generate an electric field when squeezed and are used to make pressure-sensitive pads for computer keyboards and other touch-triggered devices.
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FourHead: One PC, Four Users |
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InfoSec Writers: Training Ethical Hackers: Training the Enemy? "Training information security pr... |
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F is for Photoshopped. Researchers at Dartmouth University College have developed an algorithm to automatically detect when a digital photo has been manipulated. Their statistical technique is based on the fact that altering an image messes with the hidden mathematics inside the photo.
"There is little doubt that counter-measures will be developed to foil our detection schemes," says Farid. "Our hope, however, is that as more authentication tools are developed it will become increasingly more difficult to create convincing digital forgeries."
Difficult, but not impossible, hopes the Weekly World News.
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A Video Projector That Fits In Your Pocket |
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BugTraq: The 3 D's: Demo for the Dullards and Dunces. Sender: http-equiv at excite dot com [1 at malware dot com] |
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Backdoor.Ranky.H |
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Warning over cash machine fraud. Thousands of bank customers are being warned to limit their use of cash machines because of the growing risk of fraud. |
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Microsoft's patchwork mess. ZDNet's David Berlind explains why a sometimes infuriatingly complicated patch process reveals both timing flaws and potential vulnerabilities in Microsoft's thinking. |
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Netflix Shares Drop on Subscriber Shortfall (Reuters). Reuters - Shares of Netflix Inc. (NFLX.O) were
off 10 percent in Friday morning trading on disappointment over
the online DVD renter's second-quarter subscriber growth. |
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'Riddick' Revels in Butchery, Profanity (Reuters). Reuters - In the flourishing forest of
computerized adventures, game developers are always looking for
something new to make their product stand out. |
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iMac Computer Delay Drops Apple Shares (Reuters). Reuters - Shares of Apple Computer Inc.
(AAPL.O) fell as much as 8 percent on Friday, a day after the
maker of personal computers and music players delayed the
introduction of its newest iMac computer until after the
crucial back-to-school season. |
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On PHP and Scaling |
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Vulns: Sun Java Runtime Environment Font Object Assertion Failure Denial Of Service Vulnerability. The Java Runtime Environment (JRE) is the virtual Java platform on which all Java applications are run. It is provided by Sun Microsystems for a number of platforms, incl... |
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Only antivirus firms will survive Earth's predicted demise |
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How Much Java in the Linux World? |
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CHM_PSYME.B |
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Lieberman rips DHS wireless |
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Paranoia Goes Better With Coke. A promotional campaign that features special Coke cans containing cell phones and GPS chips has the military obsessing over possible security leaks. Coca-Cola shrugs it off, but the generals aren't kidding, apparently. |
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A Lively Open-Source Debate. The assumption that all programmers are open-source advocates falls flat at Sun's 'Big Question' debate. In fact, they're pretty well split on the subject. By Michelle Delio. |
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Oxygen Bursts in Saturn's Rings. Something's going on in Saturn's outermost rings, where oxygen levels jump explosively then diminish over a month. One theory is crashing moonlets. Amit Asaravala reports from Pasadena, California. |
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IBM Informix I-Spy 'runbin' Lets Local Users Grab Root Privileges |
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Microsoft plugs IE ActiveX hole. Microsoft plugs an IE ActiveX hole that was used by attackers to infect web surfer's computers with a keystroke logging trojan. By Fred "zAmboni" Locklear. |
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Cassini's hazy encounter with Titan. Photos from Friday's fly-by of Titan disappoint NASA scientists. They are hopeful that further processing will uncover details of the hazy moon's surface. By Fred "zAmboni" Locklear. |
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NVidia Releases Linux Drivers Supporting 4K Stacks |
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Vulns: LibPNG Incorrect Offset Calculation Buffer Overflow Vulnerability. The libpng graphics library may incorrectly calculate some offsets when creating or modifying PNG files. This vulnerability has been reported when manipulating 16-bit sam... |
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Vulns: Apache Mod_Proxy Remote Negative Content-Length Buffer Overflow Vulnerability. Apache Web server includes a proxying module (mod_proxy) to provide a proxy/cache for FTP, HTTP, and SSL.
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Vulns: Pavuk Remote Stack-Based Buffer Overrun Vulnerability. Pavuk is a UNIX utility that is used to mirror contents of WWW documents or files.
Pavuk is reported prone to a remote buffer overrun vulnerability. It is reported that ... |
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Sony Debuts 20 Gigabyte Walkman to Silence IPod (Reuters). Reuters - Sony Corp. said on Thursday it is
launching a Walkman digital music player capable of storing far
more songs than Apple Computer Inc.'s market-leading iPod,
while also undercutting iPod's price. |
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