Organic Software Visualisation
Per un pugno di centesimi
A hacker has used a loophole to collect more than $50,000 from Google Checkout and online brokerage firms, a few cents at a time.
When opening an online brokering account it is common practice for companies such as E-trade and Schwab to send a tiny payment - ranging from only a few cents to a couple of dollars - to verify that the user has access to the bank account listed. Services such as Google Checkout and Paypal use a similar tactic to verify credit and debit cards linked to accounts.
According to court documents, Californian Michael Largent used an automated script to open 58,000 such accounts, collecting many thousands of these small payments into a few personal bank accounts.
Somehow reminds me of Office Space
Protocol FAIL
Microsoft fails: MS-RSP, the Microsoft Remote Shutdown Protocol (pdf).
Have they patented it yet?
Etwas für die Ferien
Damit es mir auch ja nicht zu langweilig wird in den kommenden Ferienunterrichtsfreien Tagen (die ich ja eigentlich auch zur Vorbereitung der Prüfungen nutzen sollte): Das «Handbook of Applied Cryptography» (nicht zu verwechseln mit «Applied Cryptography» von Bruce Schneier) ist als kostenloser Download verfügbar. Auch wenn das Buch schon sechs Jahre alt ist, sind viele der behandelten Themen wohl nach wie vor relevant.
via «raw matter»
Documented to work
«Rule #1 in kernel programming: don't *ever* think that things actually work the way they are documented to work. The documentation is a starting point, nothing else.» — Linus Torvalds
I think this applies for almost every "documented" software out there ;-) Sometimes what's called documentation can't even be considered real documentation at all.
Der Distro-Bash zieht seine Kreise
libacpi - General purpose ACPI library



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