Okay, I can't help but think that somehow I've done something entirely wrong in my life to find myself _agreeing_ with the Feds about something, but then, this is actually a pretty clear issue for me... It's got sane, reasonable people who know what a serious risk allowing physical access to network media is on one side, and then tree hugging hippies who think that if they can buy something in a store it can't possibly be misused or it wouldn't be for sale.

Did we learn NOTHING from the early wireless phones?

Tip of the Day: Bleach and Ammonia, two common cleaning compounds available at every Safeway and corner store, can be mixed to produce _copious quantities_ of _mustard gas_. Much like a wireless access point, these can be purchased in a store and easily deployed to do something impossibly stupid to yourself and those around you.

Unless he was misquoted, the "Missing the Point" Award in this article goes to Sky Dayton for "It's possible to secure a wireless network today, [...] But it needs to get easier." Hello? They need to be sold pre-configured in a belligerently secure mode, because we know quite well that John and Mary Websurfer won't do _anything_ to secure them.

Feds Label Wi-Fi a Terrorist Tool

Absolutely amazing how quickly Microsoft's security initiatives start to flounder once no one is willing to tell them about the holes that they claim so profoundly don't exist.

This'll teach 'em to fail to at least give credit where credit is due for reporting holes.

Windows2000 was designed with what in mind again?

Now this is just freakin' ARTFUL

The mere image itself screams "This was not done by real aliens" but whoever did it deserves an award for artistry in engineering.

Crop circle at Crabwood Farm House, nr Winchester, Hampshire. Reported 15th August 2002

Well, the cat is out of the bag, and apparently this terrible remote exploit which affected OpenSSH and required that Theo demand that the entire planet upgrade to OpenSSH 3.3 immediately, even though he himself admitted that the new version doesn't actually fix the bug, but makes it somehow immune to the exploit, is now fully revealed to us.

Apparently the entire world is running BSD and/or S/Key authentication.

Who wants to start a pool to guess how long before Debian has another package release just to disable protocol separation? :)
(This new version is creating about five new bug ids for them)

Theo De Radt Makes An Ass Of Himself

Just when you thought you were safe from mac users with one-button mice (when every right-thinking person in America knows that all mice should have at least two buttons on them, and a wheel) there is now gesture support for Mozilla 1.0.

For those of you who aren't familiar with gesture support, it's a type of input similar to PalmOS Graffiti writing, except you use your mouse pointer and just one button. With that button you can now order your browser to the home page, scroll up and down, create new tabbed windows, and even reload pages.

You know, I could have sworn there were buttons in the UI for that.

;)

Optimoz

Japan has definitely done something sensible this time. PlayOnline has opened up Final Fantasy XII Online in Japan first, instead of here in the US where gamers would bring new meaning to "griefer" in an game environment rife with romantics who actually managed to finish Final Fantasy X without needing a root canal from all the sugar-sweet touchy-feely moments in it.

If you doubt my words, the link goes to a PS2 with it's output being converted back to a multimedia stream.

Unix Users--Feed this URL to mplayer if you haven't configured something to handle asx for you already...

http://stream.pol.com/cgi-bin/navi-cgi?ff11/+ff11.asx

If nothing seems to be going on, wait a while or come back later. People know it's there and actually monkey around in front of it. It also changes from night to day pretty smoothly.

Live Webcam of a ****ing video game

WELL... That was certainly interesting. A nice little 5.2 not particularly far from where I am for a change. Followed by several smaller ones.

This time I had a chance to say "OOOO! OOOO! AN EARTHQUAKE!". :)

Earthquake List for Map US2/36.38.-122.-120

I think everyone interested in preserving their personal safety against all odds should take a look at this, just in case you need the information.

Then and again, I could probably find a winning lottery ticket stuffed into my ear tomorrow.

Zombie Alert -- Home Protection for Sophisticated Families

Wow. This looks like someone we know.

deviantART; Urban Angel 2 by jasinski

...by making people blind, and by shattering their minds with insanity such as the page amongst the many in there which tells you what you should do if you recieve spam from any of the IANA reserved netblocks (yes, that's right, she actually advises you contact the IANA if you get spam from 192.168.0.0/16, and thinks the IANA condones spam sent from these IP addresses.)

A new way to fight spam