Thursday, February 17, 2005
Schneier on Security: SHA-1 Broken
Schneier on Security: SHA-1 Broken
Yikes. It'll be a short while before the paper is publicly available, but it doesn't look good. Are there any hash functions out there still unbroken?
Yikes. It'll be a short while before the paper is publicly available, but it doesn't look good. Are there any hash functions out there still unbroken?
Friday, February 11, 2005
Visiting SFU tonight
So I'm up at SFU tonight. Wow, memories. I used to spend professional days up here with my dad, mostly doing stupid things to computers that an 8-13 year-old shouldn't be doing, meeting his co-workers (some of whom still remember me, at least according to them at the dinner many of us shared while my dad was in town) and eating lunch in the staff room at the cafeteria.
Sarah, a friend of my roommate's who seems to tolerate my existence ( ;-) ) is editor for the arts section at SFU's student paper. Sarah is up here all night and needs to fill her section, so Natasha and I are up here hanging out with her. We brought bubble tea and a buritto.
The one idea we (ie, they) had for filling space that involved me was a critique of a movie Natasha and I saw recently. That sounded too much like a book report, so I am doing my usual geeky stuff. My offer to write something geeky wasn't enthusiastically received. They, not being as uncontrollably geeky are doing arts editor stuff, and writing some other stuff.
Hooray for stuff.
And boo to politics and drama impeding good things.
Sarah, a friend of my roommate's who seems to tolerate my existence ( ;-) ) is editor for the arts section at SFU's student paper. Sarah is up here all night and needs to fill her section, so Natasha and I are up here hanging out with her. We brought bubble tea and a buritto.
The one idea we (ie, they) had for filling space that involved me was a critique of a movie Natasha and I saw recently. That sounded too much like a book report, so I am doing my usual geeky stuff. My offer to write something geeky wasn't enthusiastically received. They, not being as uncontrollably geeky are doing arts editor stuff, and writing some other stuff.
Hooray for stuff.
And boo to politics and drama impeding good things.
Sunday, February 06, 2005
Challenge/response filtering systems DO get false negatives
This is what you get if you use challenge/response that flails about and
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hits a non-existent account on one of the domains I administer. As a side note, it seems wrong for an anti-spam vendor to function using affiliate advertising. These guys don't have a good reputation, anyways. So... Enjoy your spam, "Mark". Please don't ask me to "filter" it for you again.
Thank you for verifying your email address with Spam Arrest!
Your email has been forwarded to Mark's inbox. All of your
future emails to Mark will also be delivered directly into
their inbox.
You can protect your own email account using Spam Arrest.
Please visit our website to learn more, and signup for a
completely free account!
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This is a test post for "gaim-blogger". Blogging via IM (or close, anyways!) Interesting.
Hair? What hair?
Yep, shaved my head. No more mop for a little while. Damn, but shaving your head goes through the razor blades.
I'll see how I like the bald look. Mixed reports so far, but I think there's only really one opinion that counts.
I'll see how I like the bald look. Mixed reports so far, but I think there's only really one opinion that counts.
