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I'm a geek. No. Really. Really geeky. And I write poetry. And I read poetry. I'm an English teacher to-be.
As Slashdot (HT for the link) put it, Vernor Vinge’s Rainbow’s End is approaching. Grrrr.
This will not protect you. There will always be a way to hack this. Open standards are your only hope.
I generally assoicate Anonymous with griefing, or pulling online stunts just to piss people off, so this is an interesting change. I know they went after the banks post-Wikileaks and have done similar things before, but this is a very specific, coordinated, and targeted campaign. It looks like it might also have been a small subgroup of Anonymous who took up this task and spread the workload. (Versus something like the retaliation on the banks which seems to have been distributed in scope rather immediately.)
Looks like my life just got a little more interesting. Appears, based on comments in the Full Disclosure mailing list, to exploit a bug in mod_gzip/mod_deflate, a set of extensions that allows a website to compress traffic in transit. Apache says a patch is coming in 48 hours, and offers workarounds (disabling gzip/deflate being the most straightforward), but anyone running an OS X server with Apache will have to wait for Apple to release an update. (Now wondering how long it will take RedHat to release an official patch, since the main IT department wants everything done with yum.)
Hope you haven’t upgraded your PHP install. MD5, one of the most common hashes used with the crypt() function, will fail and return the salt instead of the hash under certain conditions, which could allow an attacker to always gain access if the function is used for passwords.
0.5 Mbps wireless for everyone, 10 Mbps for Virgin subscribers. They’re shooting to compete with a BT initiative, I guess. I’d just worry about privacy…but you already knew that, right? (*cough* Firesheep *cough*)
