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Avira Labs fail to identify malware, even when the analysis is done for them

10/03/2008 – 18:16

As a follow-up to to my blog post about g-archiver, I submitted g-archiver to Avira Labs (makers of Anti-Vir) for analysis so it can be added to their database. Their web form didn’t have anywhere to add additional information, so I submitted by email instead with a link to the dissection of the code. Despite [...]

By mojo | Posted in idiots, privacy, security, software | Comments (0)

Dephormation Firefox Add-On

10/03/2008 – 18:05

A new tool to fight Phorm: http://www.dephormation.org.uk/ This Firefox plug-in cannot stop Phorm from monitoring every web site you visit, reading your web mail (unless you use gmail via secure http) etc but it can at least mess up the tracking system. It’s a start. What is really needed is a program to randomly surf [...]

By mojo | Posted in networking, privacy, security | Comments (1)

UK ISPs allowing Phorm fraudsters to track everyone!

08/03/2008 – 13:53

I was horrified when I read about Phorm. Virgin Media, BT and TalkTalk are teaming up with Phorm to track all web browsing on their networks. The tracking info will be used to spam subscribers with targeted ads. The privacy implications are mind bloggling… I have already written a few letters of complaint, but it [...]

By mojo | Posted in idiots, law, networking, privacy, security | Comments (5)

G-Archiver stealing login details – a cautionary tale

08/03/2008 – 12:25

Today’s Coding Horror blog entry is rather disturbing, but not particularly surprising. In short, Dustin Brooks downloaded the free G-Archiver program to backup his gmail account. It didn’t work exactly as he wanted, so he used a .NET disassembler to check the source code. Amazingly, not only were the author’s login details hard coded in, [...]

By mojo | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (1)

Defence against capturing passwords from memory

08/03/2008 – 00:09

I spotted this interesting bit of software on Hack a Day. The basic idea is to do a hard reset and boot a Linux environment, which can then dump the contents of the computers RAM which will still contain any encryption keys and decrypted documents the user was working on. It’s an old idea, in [...]

By mojo | Posted in privacy, security | Comments (0)

USB HID descriptors and Windows

06/03/2008 – 20:03

While working on my USB/PSX joystick controller project I noticed that a) Windows isn’t very tolerant of some things and doesn’t care about other stuff, and b) MAME was giving some weird results. In the end, the Windows thing came down to needed to pad out the reports the microprocessor was sending back to a [...]

By mojo | Posted in hardware, windows | Comments (0)

Movie industry doing well depite piracy and shite movies

06/03/2008 – 19:23

Amazingly, according to Ars Technica, despite all the whining from the movie industry / MPAA they are actually turned a $9,630,000,000 profit in the US last year, setting a new record. Arguably, Hollywood is chruning out more more crap than ever these days, and internet connections are slowly getting faster meaning more piracy. It’s even [...]

By mojo | Posted in idiots, networking | Comments (0)

Plastic bags – what's wrong with paper?

01/03/2008 – 21:15

The current hot topic here on Airstrip One seems to be plastic bags. Much as I hate to find myself agreeing with the Daily Hate Mail, they really should go. What I can’t understand is why everyone seems to dismiss paper bags out of hand. The main complaint seems to be that they disintegrate in [...]

By mojo | Posted in idiots, politics | Comments (0)
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