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• Mosh The Vote

  27 Oct 2004 • 1 min read • Music post

  the politics of Mosh is a great, in-depth review of Eminem’s new video for the song “Mosh” that is now the top video at MTV. Whatever you may think of Eminem, his music is always …

• Motherly Reasons For Opposing Bush

  27 Oct 2004 • 1 min read • politics post

  -bush Yes, it makes me want to swear too. “Seriously” 30-second ad

• Missing Wmds An Impeachable Offense

  27 Oct 2004 • 1 min read • politics post

  Another one intended to be posted long ago, and even more interesting with the election a week away. FindLaw’s Writ - Dean: Missing Weapons Of Mass Destruction President George W. Bush has got a …

• The high price of bad diplomacy

  26 Oct 2004 • 1 min read • politics post

  Written almost 2 years ago, very poignant today. But what about Poland? Ugh. BW Online | March 24, 2003 | Commentary: The High Price of Bad Diplomacy The U.S. has already lost the prewar battle over …

• Sign the Petition: Stop the Florida Tion of the 2004 election

  26 Oct 2004 • 1 min read • security post

  ActForChange Petition: Stop the Florida-tion of the 2004 election “Today, there is a new and real threat to voters, this time coming from touchscreen voting machines with no paper trails and the …

• Memory Errors Trick Virtual Machines

  26 Oct 2004 • 1 min read • security post

  Interesting paper on how to use memory errors to attack a virtual computer. The attack exploits the fact that a “time of compilation” check is not necessarily valid at “time of …

• SecuritySpace monthly reports

  26 Oct 2004 • 1 min read • security post

  Monthly reports on security and non security-related items, such as analyzing SSL webserver usage, apache module usage. Very interesting. I like to see Apache having almost 80% of the market share now …

• SSL unsafe for users?

  26 Oct 2004 • 3 min read • security post

  “99% of SSL users have no idea how SSL works and consequently make informed decisions” Browser manufacturers try to make things easy for users but end up diluting the security properties …

• History Of Buffer Overflow Protection

  26 Oct 2004 • 3 min read • security post

  A great (old) post to Risks 22.74 about the past issues with designing solutions to buffer overflows in hardware. Also, a link to a paper describing the history of these efforts that I’ll be …

• Pki'Not Working 39-

  26 Oct 2004 • 1 min read • security post

  I still run into people who believe that PKI is a viable end-user authentication solution for the masses. My favorite were the systems that tried to solve the certificate portability problem by …