by R.I. Pienaar | Oct 9, 2003 | Front Page
I got this pdf via Boing Boing Blog, it is a full account and analysis of a spammer who owned a box via some PHP, Gallery and Geeklog vulnerabilities, installed some processes that tried their best to look like webservers that acted as bulk senders.
What makes this really interesting is the lengths that the spammers goes to in order to get their mail sent, custom written daemons, reporting back to the mother ship and so forth. Also interesting to read this for a view on some real world forensics performed and what looks like a good solid investigation into a compromised box.
This proves to me that the spammers have most definitely taken the fight to the next level and that those combating spam have a long way to go still before the spammers are going to admit defeat.
by R.I. Pienaar | Oct 4, 2003 | Front Page
I guess the big news today is that Verisign has suspended its controversial sitefinder services after pressure from ICANN.
ICANN is using anecdotal and isolated issues to attempt to regulate nonregistry services, but in the interests of further working with the technical community, we will temporarily suspend Site Finder.
This sounds to me like they are taking it down for now, but will be back once their legal types went through the fine print of their contracts. Maybe the ICANN board has been smoking the same stuff that SCO has been smoking.
by R.I. Pienaar | Oct 3, 2003 | Front Page
I saw via Neal Stephenson’s page a link to a very good article on Introverts called Caring for Your Introvert, well worth reading if you are a extrovert trying to understand the people in your life who doesn’t say much and like to do their own thing.
by R.I. Pienaar | Sep 29, 2003 | Front Page
After spending Saterday going to Camden and having to do the usual bashing and bumping to actually leave the tube I thought this was a very good Haiku that I saw on Going Underground’s Blog
Let people out first
Not “charge through the doors first thing”!
Die, you bastards, die.
I took the bus home via Piccadilli and picked up a copy of Content Syndication using RSS instead of doing that again.
by R.I. Pienaar | Sep 27, 2003 | Front Page
There were a big peace rally today in London. Some people say 10 000 people showed I think it may have been more, these things are always on media black-out and the spin doctors are doing their best to downplay it.
As usual the London traffic cams were all “not available for operational reasons” so no-one could even watch it to get a good feel for the size of it.
The theme was maybe more one of hate directed at Blair than anti war protest but there were a good deal of anti Israel sentiment too due to the on-going occupation of Palestine.
I took some photos
UPDATE:
According to Sky the organisers says 100 000 people showed up, the police says 20 000. I guess that puts it around 50 000.
by R.I. Pienaar | Sep 17, 2003 | Front Page
There is a very interesting discussion on the FreeBSD Current mailing list about packaging the base system.
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