Category: security
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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 masks. But when it still doesn’t work? Well, what other thing do you do–you […]
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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.
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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 murder you..
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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.
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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 found a flaw in that, so I believe this is the fix. 4 export SSH_RECENT=”$HOME/.ssh/recent” 5 […]
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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 possible to double-mask a processor and add secertly doped regions underneath the silicon to pull down gates. This kind of secret logic is also […]
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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 the kernel itself; the latter is useful because there are uses for random numbers within the kernel. The other output stream goes to /dev/random. The […]
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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 available.
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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. So when using conventional networking and typical corporate policies, of course, you just design in the backdoor in plain sight. http://www.truth-out.org/print/4465 A real […]
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