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Áfram Ísland!
Congratulations. The Icelandic handball team made it into the finale on Sunday. If they can get the gold medal, this would be the first Olympic gold for Iceland.
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Time for a Russian missile shield on Cuba then?
History repeats itself, it seems. You don’t need to be particularly bright to admit that the so-called missile shield is hardly targeted at Iran and the other “rogue states”. There is a frightening scenario in sight again for Russia and … Continue reading
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Oh noes, ThePirateBay.org again …
It had to happen at some point. The pirates™ from ThePirateBay.org captured a number of bottled messages that had been watered by passengers of the Olympic™ cruise ship and are holding all of these messages hostage now. The evil™ pirates™ … Continue reading
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Good for a laugh – but not much more …
… as serious as the standoff in Georgia/South Ossetia is at the moment, as laughable the following quote: As I have made clear, Russia’s ongoing actions raise serious questions about its intentions in Georgia and the region. In recent years, … Continue reading
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Yeah, I know!
This is what I want to say in advance to everyone who wants to let me know that Iceland won against Germany in some handball match – presumably at the Olympic Games. What the heck do I know. I am … Continue reading
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“But disk space is cheap”
Often you hear people make this statement if someone dares to complain about the disk space requirements of some software. This is the usual response in such a case. But first of all, even though it is cheap, it requires … Continue reading
Posted in EN, Software
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You are on camera
In Great Britain, if you visit a cinema, you’re likely on camera now. Two of the biggest companies have installed CCTVs inside the cinema halls, claiming it “prevents crime”. I still don’t get how cameras can do that, but that … Continue reading
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“etch-and-a-half”, Debian Etch R4 released
If you can, use apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade in some kind of sandbox (“lab-conditions”). For me everything went smooth. // Oliver
Posted in EN, IT Security, Linux, Software
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“A brilliant composer, songwriter, singer” ….. NOT!
Last weekend, as a temporary spectator at what you could call a bachelorette’s party, I was introduced to Icelandic “artist” Leoncie and the Icelandic version of this song (luckily it was a double 😉 – and in this case was … Continue reading
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Anti-phishing techniques – or how to defeat the purpose of IDNs
International Domain Names (IDNs) are attractive. They allow people to express themselves in the multitude of languages which this planet has to offer. However, they also allow scammers and phishers to trick you into believing a particular domain name is … Continue reading
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A clarification – because it is needed
Almost one month ago I wrote a blog post. Some people more or less took offence by it. In German we have a saying that goes like this “Wem der Schuh paßt, der zieht ihn sich an.” – which translates … Continue reading
CreateRemoteThread, Vista and separate sessions
Recently I’ve hit a wall during development. I had written a nice workaround for a problem, based on code injection. In fact the code wasn’t injected by loading a DLL but instead by loading relocatable (32bit) code of less than … Continue reading
Posted in /dev/null, IT Security, Programming, Reversing
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What’s the deal with Obama?
It seems Germans are overly enthusiastic about the visit of presumptive US presidential candidate Barack Obama. Obviously no German has a say in the election, but putting that fact aside, it is still astonishing how enthusiastic many Germans are. I … Continue reading
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сніжок.net
Just a test сніжок.net PS: If the URL looks horrible, it’s Firefox or IE. No further comment 😉 Update: link removed.
CSimpleBuf, a C++ utility class under BSD license
Today I am happy to announce the release of a C++ buffer class that is of special use for interfacing with Windows system functions. The class is a template class and thus only one header file is needed. The template … Continue reading
Posted in EN, FSI/F-Prot, Programming
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Windows in XEN domU on laptop, using screen and VGA?
Does anyone among my readers have a clue whether or not it is possible to set up XEN in a way so it will pass control over the screen to a domU to which I want to assign it? It … Continue reading
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GoDaddy.com SSL cert …
It was a bit of trouble to get it done, even after my purchase was approved. But I have ît now 🙂 Here I just want to share the information with you, since the FAQ on the GoDaddy website wasn’t … Continue reading
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Two weeks after beta: IDA Pro 5.3 released
Those who haven’t heard the news, get your update now. Here’s a link to the update-request page. NB: According to Ilfak, the debugger has seen major improvements. // Oliver PS: Don’t forget to get the new SDK and the support … Continue reading
Nice work! Found hardware keylogger in a DELL laptop.
Read the full story here. DHS denying request under FOIA. PS: If you read the scanned document closely, you notice the two times 8-digit “file number” which could be a date. If this was state of the art three years … Continue reading
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Very thorough anti-fraud department ;)
I just ordered a five-pack of SSL certificates at GoDaddy.com a few days ago because they have the best offer in that the price is nice and the browsers they cover are virtually 100% of all browsers. The remaining close-to-zero … Continue reading
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