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Win your election using a MITM attack

Electronic voting has very little to do with computers as we use them today, that is, our web-sites are porous and our networks are fungible, our browsers are petri dishes for crime to grow spores in....

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Bellingham Air Museum

I like the phrase “starter crank.” I loved planes as a boy, but now I’m bitter about the symbolism. Is this an attempt to poke at jingoism? I love the tone of the shiny metal, truly. HIgher res...

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Linux Random Numbers

This explanation from the article comparing /dev/urandom and /dev/random is priceless admin info: The kernel RNG produces two user-space output streams. One of these goes to /dev/urandom and also to...

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Quick analysis of Linux’s use of RDRAND. // Pastebin.com

In the presence of the NSA’s aggressive campaign to weaken or break encryption, reducing the actual randomness provided by Intel processors  is entirely within their budget. Also consider that is is...

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Checking for your ssh-agent on login – updated

The first thing my .bash_aliases file does on login is to check if I’m running ssh-agent and if so, stick that into my shell environment. If not, kick it up, and update a reminder to it. This morning I...

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Obama signs bill ‘in secret’ making FREE SPEECH ILLEGAL! – YouTube

Obama signs bill ‘in secret’ making FREE SPEECH ILLEGAL! – YouTube. This is the worst news I’ve heard in a long time.Filed under: civil liberty, justice, security Tagged: bill of rights, enslavement,...

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[Bryan] Lunduke.com » I got robbed. So I’m going to murder you.

It really sucks when someone breaks into your house. You feel violated. You want revenge…but really, Bryan just needs to be able to get back to work. [Bryan] Lunduke.com » I got robbed. So I’m going to...

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Introducing BPasswd2

This is a really cool idea. I’m already a big fan of LastPass, but anything that helps simplify generating passwords is a great idea. Introducing BPasswd2.Filed under: computing, security

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Your passwords are at risk

Your website and email passwords might have been captured. Your website sessions can be impersonated because cookies can be captured. If you haven’t heard about this the last few days, this is a real...

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Grumpy thots on SELinux

I just spent an hour trying to get a Samba share running on Fedora 20. It used to not take that long, I’m familiar with how to get Samba running, how to create shares, and how to manage valid users and...

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