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Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 He's spent decades dodging the law. He's escaped from jail twice by helicopter. He's given millions to the poor. This is the story of how Greece’s most wanted man became a folk hero. The robberies started again on a Wednesday. A masked man drove a stolen van through the qu…
Hasnain says:
Really interesting read.
"He's spent decades dodging the law. He's escaped from jail twice by helicopter. He's given millions to the poor. This is the story of how Greece’s most wanted man became a folk hero."
Posted on 2014-09-26T05:36:02+0000
The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy - IEEE Spectrum
The Phoebus cartel engineered a shorter-lived lightbulb and gave birth to planned obsolescence
Hasnain says:
"How exactly did the cartel pull off this engineering feat? It wasn’t just a matter of making an inferior or sloppy product; anybody could have done that. But to create one that reliably failed after an agreed-upon 1,000 hours took some doing over a number of years. The household lightbulb in 1924 was already technologically sophisticated: The light yield was considerable; the burning time was easily 2,500 hours or more. By striving for something less, the cartel would systematically reverse decades of progress."
Posted on 2014-09-25T22:59:05+0000
Shellshock DHCP RCE Proof of Concept -
DHCP bash shellshock POC: 1) Just about any DHCP string value should work for the exploit. Value 114 is URL, which is a string and should be reliable for use 2) start a DHCP server on the network And set the string value for 114 to: () { ignored;}; echo ‘foo’ Replace the portion...»Read the full art…
Announcing Clasp
Hello, everyone! Clasp github repository Today I am happy to make the first release of the Common Lisp implementation “Clasp”. Clasp uses LLVM as its back-end and generates native code. Clasp is a ...
Airlines crack down on ‘mileage runs’
Some travelers take very long flights on low-priced tickets to earn frequent-flier miles and elite status.
Troy Hunt: Everything you need to know about the Shellshock Bash bug
Remember Heartbleed? If you believe the hype today, Shellshock is in that league and with an equally awesome name albeit bereft of a cool logo (someone in the marketing department of these vulns needs to get on that). But in all seriousness, it does have the potential to be a biggie and as I did wit…
Americans are renouncing citizenship after being forced out of bank accounts
Thousands of US Citizens abroad are giving up their citizenship as a new tax law holds foreign banks and its expatriates ransom.
Hasnain says:
"To avoid breaking any laws, Welch will have to renounce his US citizenship and file five years’ worth of tax returns as well as possibly thousands of dollars to the US government in taxes on income he earned in Canada. He will have to foot bills for airplane flights and miss out on wages – and that’s not counting the $2,350 fee to renounce a citizenship he never assumed in the first place."
This is nuts.
Posted on 2014-09-25T17:36:20+0000
Silicon Valley’s Contract-Worker Problem
An examination of tech's favorite labor model.
Hasnain says:
This is a really good read. All this explosive startup growth doesn't come for free: there is often a human cost behind it.
Posted on 2014-09-25T05:56:20+0000
Relativistic hash tables, part 1: Algorithms [LWN.net]
One might wonder whether the resizing of hash tables is common enough to be worth optimizing. As it turns out, picking the correct size for a hash table is not easy; the kernel has many tables whose size is determined at system initialization time with a combination of heuristics and simple guesswor…
Xen Security Advisories
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Hasnain says:
"XSA-108 2014-10-01 12:00 none (yet) assigned (Prereleased, but embargoed)"
I wonder what it is this time, given that AWS is pre-emptively shutting instances down and telling users their instances will be rebooted.
Posted on 2014-09-25T01:56:38+0000