OMG OMG OMG my theme was hacked!
For fun I was checking out my statistics and discovered that my theme got hacked: the footer and header were replaced, inserting spammy URLs into the outputted page, together with some Google Adsense code.
Yay.
As a result I am now delisted from Google’s index.
Apparently, this has been going on for a couple of months, [...]
Keylogging in Javascript (or “Why the fsck does a password field send the keypress value?”)
Disclaimer: The information in here is purely educational, yada yada yada.
And… it’s not people that abuse things who harm people — it’s the people that put those things there without thinking.
An explaination: I have always been intrigued by HTML forms. As a paranoid person, I have always wondered whether companies or websites are logging [...]
MC Frontalot — Secrets From The Future
 by in Arts & Poetry, Conspiracies, Freedom & Repression, Interesting Links, Internet & Technology, Media, Religion & Politics, Music, Security & Privacy |
Hey again! Long time no post, I know…. busy, life, et cetera, but this I just needed to share.
I was just reading Bruce Schneier’s CRYPTO-GRAM and he linked to this suprisingly good track (direct link to MP3) by MC Frontalot, called Secrets From The Future (direct link to the lyrics).
To quote the chorus:
You can’t [...]
‘Amusing’ Blogger translation bug
So I was trying out some API connection, for which I had set up an account on Blogger. Now, the profile over there is displayed in Dutch .. And it translates the sign ‘Cancer’ to the disease ‘cancer’ in Dutch:
The correct translation is of course, ‘Kreeft‘.
That’s the problem with homonyms, words written the same, [...]
My proposal to reduce unnecessary power consumption: Ban animating internet ads
With the recent focus on what human power consumption does to the environment (you know with initiative like a black Google page to save on energy consumption by computer screens), I suddenly realised something that would greatly reduce even more useless power consumption.
It hit me when my girlfriends’ laptop was starting to have issues because [...]
So I was trying to Google a telephone number…
| by in Computers & Hardware, Freedom & Repression, Internet & Technology, Music Industry & DRM, Random Rantings |
…when suddenly Google suggested the following search term:
09 f9 11 02 9d 74 e3 5b d8 41 56 c5 63 56 88 c0
Now what the fuck is that?
WTF!?
| by in Internet & Technology, Software |
More software patent craziness…
Flash player v9.0 for Linux (oh yeah, beta)
I today incidentally discovered the Penguin.SWF blog, which details the development of version 9 of the Flash Player for Linux.
Lucky, because I was just beginning to feel like a handicapped person not being able to reach some information over the last few weeks so.
Shows you how much I care about plugins — this [...]
Linux distro timeline
I just discovered the linux distribution timeline.
Cool graph…
Flaming one company and praising the other — while both companies are trying to accomplish the same goals — really makes you look like an idiot.
| by in Computers & Hardware, Conspiracies, Internet & Technology, Music Industry & DRM, Random Rantings |
So, a lot of negative stuff about the PS3 I read this morning. Lately there was some rumours about stacks of PS3s at numerous stores, like as if nobody wants them. Today another story on Slashdot about PS3s freezing up — reportedly.
Anyways, I wouldn’t have given this any more attention if I didn’t catch somebody [...]
Samba developer resigns from Novell
Gloklaw has an article about a software developer’s resignation from Novell as a result of Novell’s deal with Microsoft, yesterday.
Jeremy Allison, a Samba developer, thinks the patent deal between the two companies will be “damaging to the Novell’s success in the future”,
Whilst the Microsoft patent agreement is in place there is *nothing* we can [...]
Want to own a filesystem?
| by in Internet & Technology, Sad Stuff, Software |
I just caught this Wired article through Slashdot. Hans Reiser, the creator of ReiserFS — a computer file system — is currently in jail because he’s suspected of murdering his wife. (Yeh the tough reality is that the moment somebody dies or disappears, the spouse is the number one suspect.)
He was actually already arrested on [...]
Online treatment for alcoholism
I just caught this news (Dutch) about on-line treatment for alcohol-addiction by some Dutch clinic that specialises in that type of thing.
This ‘treatment’ consists of 7 online chat-sessions with a professional.
Now, I can’t get this image out of my head:
i have a drinking problem
Come, come, elucidate your thoughts.
i drink too much
I’m not sure I understand [...]
White-supremacist butt-fuckers messing wit’ MLK…
I just love this initiative to Googlebomb a white-supremacist website (found it while connecting*the*dots).
The content of the site really is sickening and vile. Of course, such a site should be taken down, but denial of service attacks are childish. And, everybody has a right to express themselves, even a white supremacist.
But… this isn’t expression… [...]
And in a couple of years, Linux users are terrorists, undermining our freedoms…
| by in Conspiracies, Freedom & Repression, Media, Religion & Politics, Music Industry & DRM, Random Rantings, Visions |
So, Microsoft has made the bold claim that their intellectual property is in it.
Oh my fucking god. This is serious because there are plenty of stupid people in this world to believe that crap. Fuck, the critical majority, in each and every issue, is dumber than a horses ass and knows just enough to [...]
Quote Of The Week #34
I was listening some old-school music the other day (because I love to reminisce) and couldn’t resist using it as this weeks QOTW…It was Ice-T’s Power album, the song Radio Suckers I was listening to, hearing the following line again (which doesn’t even apply to rap-music only):
We shouldn’t sell out,we should just yell out
And get [...]
Death to corporate mafia!
| by in Conspiracies, Freedom & Repression, Internet & Technology, Media, Religion & Politics, Random Rantings |
When I read shit like this it makes my fucking heart bleed.
PROPRIETARY software emperor Microsoft has struck a deal with the Linux reseller Novell to make it easier for customers to use both Linux and Microsoft’s Windows software.
The deal will make the Vole a SuSE Linux seller and will mean the pair will share technology. [...]
Recording an end-user’s movements on a website — copyright infringement?
This post on Slashdot got me thinking of something that I’ve been thinking about a couple of years ago.
Who says that websites aren’t already recording your movements?
I mean — earlier in this century I was thinking that, when you are a big corporation, and you have some ‘comments, complaints & suggestions‘ section on [...]
Sure, blame some ‘hacker’…
…while actually the system itself is vulnerable as fuck.
It’s not funny when the feds come around to take all your hardware for exposing a three year old hole (which could’ve been abused all along). ‘Taking down’ this guy doesn’t really solve any problems caused by this poor system.
Technology is mankinds Achilles-heel, I tell [...]
brain-tag.net
Don’t you hate it when you go and eat somewhere and the grub’s awful? Not because of the cook, but because of the ingredients? Or, are you (or do you know) a picky eater? Doesn’t it suck that it seems hard to find new menu’s to eat?
That’s what we were discussing when we had some [...]
If they can’t even protect their ‘most valuable good’…
Reading about that ATM hack again today I was thinking this:
If they can’t even protect their ‘most valuable good’, how can we expect voting machines to tell the truth?
OM-MF-G
Just discovered this here (by following a link, by the way, in one of the comments below this other amazing story):
He noticed an alphanumeric code printed on the key [of the Diebold voting machine], and remarked that he had a key at home with the same code on it. The next day he brought in [...]
MythTV + MythStreams + lastFMProxy = fun too :)
Yesterday, one of my new colleagues pointed my attention to last.FM, an internet radio station. Well, there are plenty internet radio stations, but what sets this one apart from the rest is the fact that you can specify what songs you like, so that some kind of profile is created. I had already heard of [...]
Not having anything to hide; rather fearing other peoples interpretation of the facts…
| by in Computers & Hardware, Conspiracies, Freedom & Repression, Media, Religion & Politics, Security & Privacy, Software, Visions |
The title of this post has always been my biggest fear about Big Brother watching everybody’s move, registering everything they buy, et cetera.
See, I really have nothing to hide. I fear that ‘The Man’ only wrongly interprets the information and I get Red Flagged for nothing.
People always thought I was kidding when I said that, [...]
Give up your PIN-code to some criminal holding you at gun-point?
| by in Belegana, Freedom & Repression, Health, Ideas & Concepts, Media, Religion & Politics, Random Rantings, Security & Privacy, The Netherlands, Visions |
Well, go to jail already! In the Netherlands, the police will label anybody that hands over their PIN-code, as a ’suspect of a criminal act’. Of course, there are things to be said against, and pro…. But, of course, I’m more leaning towards against: I didn’t fucking ask for a fucking banking-card that is protected [...]
The irony: Windows broken before shipped…
| by in Conspiracies, Freedom & Repression, Humour, Interesting Links, Music Industry & DRM, Random Rantings, Security & Privacy |
So, while a Microsoft spokesman was trying to relay its wet-dream to listeners (i.e. was intellectually masturbating) on the security in Window Vista, a Polish female researcher was demonstrating how the ’security’ can be bypassed, thus resulting in exactly the same unsafe situation as with earlier Windows variants.
Real funny, that.
Safe computing is impossible if the [...]
BlackHat conference demoes US citizen-only targetting smart-bomb, triggered by RFID chip on their passport
| by in Freedom & Repression, Interesting Links, Media, Religion & Politics, Random Rantings, Security & Privacy |
Just read that, at the BlackHat conference in Las Vegas, some folks demoed a bomb that will explode if an American passport is in its vicinity — a scenario not that hard to imagine.
Basically, RFID passports do not guarantee the safety and security they were invented for in the first place.
Now, I am not [...]
They said the technology wouldn’t be abused in such a way — but …. it is.
| by in Conspiracies, Freedom & Repression, Media, Religion & Politics, Random Rantings, Security & Privacy |
Okay so I read this stuff here (Dutch) which tells about how surveillance camera’s (put there to increase public safety) are now being abused to give parking-tickets.
Of course they say ‘these wrongly parked cars are hindering the ambulances‘. Although that may be true, that sure is hell isn’t the real reason they’re doing this. It’s [...]
WordPress 2.0.4 security release available
If you haven’t already — please upgrade WordPress to version 2.0.4. According to the developers, over 50 bugs have been fixed and the issue with the ‘Anyone can register‘-thing has now been addressed.
Spread the Word, Press..
WordPress, Blogs, Vulnerability, Security
Sysadmin Appreciation Day!
From sysadminday.com:
If you can read this, thank your sysadmin.
A sysadmin unpacked the server for this website from its box, installed an operating system, patched it for security, made sure the power and air conditioning was working in the server room, monitored it for stability, set up the software, and kept backups in case anything went [...]
Finally, Metallica realises most of their CDs is crap
| by in Music, Music Industry & DRM, Random Rantings |
Remember that these guys were anti P2P? Metallica just signed a deal with Napster and iTunes to make single song downloads available. They already had the complete albums available online but it seems those guys finally realised nobody was buying their overpriced CDs as most of the songs are crap.
And they’re doing it with a [...]
WordPress users: Disable ‘Anyone can register‘!
Through Darknet I discovered that apparently a vulnerability has been found in WordPress that could allow evil people to do nasty stuff. Details remain vague though, but according to Dr Dave, one should disable the Anyone can register thingy in the Options of their weblog to prevent the vulnerability being exploited.
The details are kept vague [...]
Knowing Microsoft, their iPod-killer will probably be released “too zune”… :P
…and I couldn’t withhold this User Friendly cartoon:
Humour, Zune, iPod
Blow-up doll for insecure female drivers
So some company is marketing a blow-up doll for women who are insecure about driving at night, alone. Apparently, the presence of what appears to other people as a real person, gives them enough security to drive around town.
Now, I wonder — do women over-estimate the blow-up dolls’ size, too?
However sexist the whole concept [...]
Verichip RFID clonable (thus totally unsafe), despite the company’s promises
I just heard from somebody that on HOPE, a presentation was given how easily the Verichip RFID chip implant can be cloned (thus identities stolen, people posing as other people getting easier because nowadays, somehow, everything must be digital or something.
Basically, the work is done by this device, called the proxmark3, that;
[it] can do almost [...]
Trains to be equiped with TV screens for travel-info, news..
I just read this initiative to equip trains with TV screens. These TV screens will display travel-information, alternating with news and advertisements.
No escape from the propaganda they call TV — get brainwashed while commuting… Two-Minutes Hate, anyone?
On voice recognition to access bank-account information…
Bright idea, voice recognition (Dutch article) to access bank account information.
A user can authenticate themselves to the bank, using their voice as their passport. Anyone that remember the film Sneakers will remember that, basically, you could record and playback somebody’s bank-account number after you’ve snooped from them. “My voice is my passport”…
That said, [...]
McKinnon to be extradited to America after all
| by in Computers & Hardware, Freedom & Repression, Internet & Technology, Media, Religion & Politics, Sad Stuff, Security & Privacy |
Seems like the pleads didn’t help Gary McKinnon at all. Because of a dumb extradition treaty he’ll be extradited to the US. For, according to the media,
[..] the “biggest military hack of all time” [..]
Which in itself is absolute bullshit because the ‘biggest military hack’, at least strategically, is the forced usage of Microsoft Windows [...]
French anti-DRM ruling threatens innovation as they see it
So I read this (Dutch) article about critics of the recent anti-DRM ruling in France. They try to convince everybody that such a ruling ‘threatens innovation‘. (Of course, the ‘critics’ are the companies that invested in this stuff.)
In the long run, they say, the public will get back ‘less innovation’ because of rulings like [...]
On smell-technology…
It’s amusing to see how ‘new’, almost magical technologies get embraced with so-much naivety. Slashdot has this little blurb about an article in the New Scientist on ’smell-technology’;
“Simply point the gadget at a freshly baked cookie, for example, and it will analyse its odour and reproduce it for you using a host of non-toxic chemicals. [...]
Programming the Cell Broadband Processor
A colleague just pointed me to this post linking to some articles on programming the Cell Broadband Processor (the technology that powers the Playstation 3). If you’re into that stuff you might want to check it out.
I also noted that, although Sony’s marketing machine is slowly being put into motion, there’s quite a bunch [...]
On Bluecasting…
I read this article about a Dutch shop that sends messages to Bluetooth enabled devices. Apparently — this is not spam. Because, by its definition, spamming is only spam if you are abusing some ’service’. As Bluetooth is not a communication-service, i.e. one doesn’t have to subscribe or pay to use it, you can spam [...]
One third of Europeans lack basic computer skills
As reported by The Register yesterday, a third of the EU citizens lack basic computer skills:
Eurostat found that 37 per cent of people aged between 16 and 74 had no basic computer skills and were unable to complete tasks such as using a mouse to copy a file or folder.
I find the action of ‘copying [...]
MySpace sued after assault on minor, but what is this really about?
I just read that parents sued MySpace for $ 14 milion in damages after their child got assaulted in real life after having her profile publicly posted on a social networking site.
The lawyer stated that:
MySpace is more concerned about making money than protecting children online.
Of course, parents can’t hardly be blamed for neglecting their kids [...]
An Open Letter To Hip-Hop About Some Real Important Shit
Just discovered Davey D’s Open Letter To Hip-Hop About Some Real Important Shit through Guerrillafunk.com, regarding net neutrality and how these possible changes will change your life and the lack of focus on this issue.
Anyway your next steps should you choose is to call your Senator’s office and tell them to stand up and protect [...]
On the Belgium kidnapping…
| by in Health, Security & Privacy |
So, a couple of days ago, a couple of young girls went missing in Belgium. Immediately, it was all over the media that some pedophile or whatever may have taken them.
The moment I heard that I was thinking: and they jump to this conclusion because… ? The guy’s missing? Cellular phone data implicated him in [...]
Sure, telephone numbers, etcetera, will all be replaced by a single email-address
| by in Computers & Hardware, Ideas & Concepts, Internet & Technology, Random Rantings, Software, The Netherlands |
Some Dutch researcher suggests that, in the long run, (mobile) telephone numbers will disappear and will be replaced by one email-address.
Although we can put people on the moon and make money of prolonging the problems of sickness, the spam problem most probably still won’t be solved. Not even touching the privacy-related issues there arise if [...]
Native Google Earth for Linux — beta, of course ;)
A colleague send me a link to this post telling there’s a (beta) Google Earth for Linux now!
Finally, no more tinkering with Wine, which doesn’t really enhance stability and stuff….
You can download it here.
Google Earth, Linux
Web 1.0 vs 2.0
| by in Humour, Internet & Technology |
I just found this thing right here that show the differences between Web 1.0 and 2.0 — and how stuff has changed.
Stupid buzzwords.
They forgot to put an extra 0 (zero) in front of those version numbers…
Web 1.0, Web 2.0, Humour