2010-12-14

Links: 2010-12-14

From our Delicious feed today:


  • Mubix and Carnal0wnage join the Rapid7 family « Rapid7 Network Security Blog - Congrats to two of our favorite hackers!
    #tags: hackers metasploit


  • Air Guitar Prototype | Chris O'Shea - There is some absolutely crazy stuff going on with OpenCV and the Kinect controller!
    #tags: hardware hacking opensource music programming


  • "FBI Added Secret Backdoors to OpenBSD IPSEC" - Ugh. Potentially sickening.
    #tags: infosec opensource OpenBSD vpn infiltration


  • HeapLocker: Private Memory Usage Monitoring « Didier Stevens - This will probably take a bit of refinement, but it's an exciting step in the right direction
    #tags: defense pdf windows


  • 2010-12-08

    Links: 2010-12-08

    From our Delicious feed today:

  • SANS - Computer Forensics and Incident Response with Rob Lee - Good to know, I suppose. I wonder if full erasure could be automated?
    #tags: forensics linux infosec privacy

  • Police Hand Out The Club To Keep KC Residents Safe - Kansas City News Story - KCTV Kansas City - The fail is strong with them!
    #tags: locks lockpicking physicalsecurity humor fail

  • What Car Thieves Think of the Club - NYTimes.com - This is why I laughed that cops handed out The Club to people.
    #tags: locks security automotive lockpicking physicalsecurity

  • What's Your Favorite Old School Software? - While much of the software I still rely on daily could qualify as "old school" -- you know, awk, vi, and grep -- in the spirit of this post, I offer to you Telemate, Lotus WorksSuite and XTree Gold
    #tags: dos oldschool software

  • makeit.png (PNG Image, 1124x777 pixels) - Scaled (80%) - Best. Poster. Ever.
    #tags: cartoon humor

  • 2010-12-07

    Links: 2010-12-07

    From our Delicious feed today:

  • The Sound Design of Tron: Legacy | /Film - One more piece of Tron pr0n for the day.
    #tags: movie video

  • Out now: VirtualBox 4.0 - first beta - c0t0d0s0.org - Not even mentioned on virtualbox.org yet? Sad.
    #tags: virtualization virtualbox software opensource

  • How to Define “Connected Systems” to the PCI Cardholder Data Environment (CDE) | BlogInfoSec.com - Answers some commonly-asked questions
    #tags: pci compliance

  • Essential Gear: 10 Badass Tactical Pens | Gear Patrol - That CRKT Tao WILL BE MINE. Never be caught without a pain-inducing pocket-stick again.
    #tags: defense weapons

  • YouTube - Rob Giseburt's Makerbot "WinterMute" Mods - A profile of all the crazy stuff Rob did to his MakerBot.
    #tags: makerbot fabrication ccckc hackerspace video

  • How to use your calipers - Some good info here. I love my digital calipers, but I always feel like I'm cheating. I learned on a pair of vernier-scale calipers.
    #tags: science measurements mechanics electronics

  • Arsenic Bacteria: Does The Evidence Hold Up?. In the Pipeline: - Take note. These weren't found as-is. NASA frobbed them and pushed the organism to new limits. They don't "live on arsenic" and they still have phosphates in them.
    #tags: science biology chemistry

  • Amazon.com: Tron: Legacy (Amazon MP3 Exclusive Version) [+digital booklet]: Daft Punk: MP3 Downloads - ... And the theatrical score that's been entertaining me all day long. DRM free and under $4!
    #tags: music movie

  • Tron: Reloaded, come for the action, stay for the aesthetics - Boing Boing - Cory Doctorow's review of the one movie I absolutely have to see this year
    #tags: movie review

  • i♥cabbages: Circumventing Adobe ADEPT DRM for EPUB - Well done!
    #tags: adobe pdf drm fairuse

  • 2010-12-05

    Links: 2010-12-05

    From our Delicious feed today:

  • Textual: IRC for Mac OS X - If you're still stuck in IRC land, this is a really sexy IRC interface.
    #tags: irc mac osx software opensource

  • HeapLocker « Didier Stevens - A new tool (very much experimental at this point) for detecting heap spray attacks
    #tags: defense security infosec software tools freeware

  • Not Always Right » When Two Wrongs Make It Right - Hilarious social engineering
    #tags: socialengineering humor

  • You're A Little Late - MthruF - Because no one likes passive-aggressive email signatures.
    #tags: humor

  • Hyenae | SourceForge - A slick and flexible packet generator
    #tags: ne network security tools opensource dos networking hacking testing

  • Faking Pharaohs Gold: a sordid tale of real piracy - These are the kinds of piracy cases that we should be worried about. Awesome justice!
    #tags: piracy lawsuit electronics

  • Internet Privacy: Firefox Makers Look at Hiding Online Footprints - WSJ.com - Some interesting developments
    #tags: privacy security internet opensource

  • Updates to a couple of Sysinternals tools - Any Windows-savvy administrator should stay current with SysInternals! Some good updates.
    #tags: microsoft tools freeware sysadmin

  • Heat shrink fuse holder @Makezine.com blog - I've been doing fuses this way for years. Usually without the springs. Sometimes with just a bit of solder paste in there for good measure.
    #tags: electronics soldering

  • Photo - Drive By Blogging - Presented without comment
    #tags: politics wikileaks humor

  • Links: 2010-12-05

    From our Delicious feed today:

  • Textual: IRC for Mac OS X - If you're still stuck in IRC land, this is a really sexy IRC interface.
    #tags: irc mac osx software opensource

  • HeapLocker « Didier Stevens - A new tool (very much experimental at this point) for detecting heap spray attacks
    #tags: defense security infosec software tools freeware

  • Not Always Right » When Two Wrongs Make It Right - Hilarious social engineering
    #tags: socialengineering humor

  • You’re A Little Late - MthruF - Because no one likes passive-aggressive email signatures.
    #tags: humor

  • Hyenae | SourceForge - A slick and flexible packet generator
    #tags: ne network security tools opensource dos networking hacking testing

  • Faking Pharaohs Gold: a sordid tale of real piracy - These are the kinds of piracy cases that we should be worried about. Awesome justice!
    #tags: piracy lawsuit electronics

  • Internet Privacy: Firefox Makers Look at Hiding Online Footprints - WSJ.com - Some interesting developments
    #tags: privacy security internet opensource

  • Updates to a couple of Sysinternals tools - Any Windows-savvy administrator should stay current with SysInternals! Some good updates.
    #tags: microsoft tools freeware sysadmin

  • Heat shrink fuse holder @Makezine.com blog - I've been doing fuses this way for years. Usually without the springs. Sometimes with just a bit of solder paste in there for good measure.
    #tags: electronics soldering

  • Photo - Drive By Blogging - Presented without comment
    #tags: politics wikileaks humor

  • 2010-12-02

    Automate posting links from Delicious to Blogger

    As you can tell, I've been playing with a way to create real blog posts from Delicious, not just an RSS feed splice. The old feed splice was being done with Feedburner, and it usually worked pretty well, but it lacked the flexibility I wanted and furthermore, it wouldn't actually create a post here. It would only show up in the RSS feed.


    Delicious has an "experimental" (as in, not maintained since 2008) "Blog Posting Tool" that simply refuses to work with Blogger, the platform we currently use. In fact, it's so arcane that I don't really know if anyone has ever really made it work on anything other than Wordpress.

    I threw something together in PHP that uses the Simple HTML DOM library to parse the output of the Delicious API. One part of that library that broke pretty spectacularly at first was trying to grab the "tag" attribute of each element. Simple HTML DOM uses "tag" as a variable name all over the place, and it caused some major recursion. I used preg_replace to change the name of "tag" to something else to avoid this namespace collision.

    It's written in PHP because I was originally planning on cooking up something web-based, but I went more lightweight instead. Who knows, maybe I'll re-write it later on. Perhaps perl, python, ruby or even newLISP would have been better for this. It's designed to be run manually from the command-line or (more specifically) a nightly cron job.

    I just know that there aren't any easy-to-use solutions for posting Delicious links to Blogger, and a lot of people seem to want something like this. It's rough, has some vestigial debugging code left in it, and it's probably not easy enough for most folks. It does what I wanted it to do, though, and you'll probably be seeing a lot more frequent link posts because of it.

    Source. Public Domain. Yadda yadda. Enjoy.

    Links: 2010-12-02

    From our Delicious feed today:

  • YouTube - Jason Fried: Why work doesn't happen at work - via @Viss
    #tags: productivity work video leadership

  • No joke: A full Gnome desktop on 105Mb - They're on the right path, but there are plenty of lightweight window managers out there.
    #tags: gnome linux

  • World Of Technology: Skinned Fluffy Automata - So. Creepy.
    #tags: robotics toys

  • sysadvent: Day 1 - Linux Containers (LXC) - A quick how-to guide to OS-Level virtualization in Linux. Don't know how it differs from UML though.
    #tags: linux virtualization sysadmin

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