Acidus wrote:
So to settle all this craziness about disclosing Firefox 0day, I decided to call Six Apart's press office, as Mischa Spiegelmock claimed he works there.

He has gone on record saying that this was a joke and that they don't have code execution.

RE: On Six Apart and the dropping of the 0day

NASA said it hopes to launch space shuttle Discovery on its next mission on Dec. 7, a week earlier than previously planned.

If the liftoff happens then, it would take place at 9:38 p.m. ET, the first nighttime launching of a shuttle since the Columbia disaster in 2003.

Road Trip!

ABC News: NASA Plans First Night Launch Since Columbia Disaster

Hacktivismo has relased an anonymizing browser called Torpark. It can be run from a USB flash drive and leaves behind no traces of use. It makes tor much easier to use.

Anonymizing browser released

Hezbollah guerrillas were able to hack into Israeli radio communications during last month's battles in south Lebanon, an intelligence breakthrough that helped them thwart Israeli tank assaults, according to Hezbollah and Lebanese officials.

Wow! Key management problem?

Hezbollah cracked the code

A blog on social software, collaboration, trust, security, privacy, and internet tools, by Christopher Allen.

One of the slashdot posters in the Puppy Smoothies thread recommended this blog, which is a combination of very intelligent posts on internet rating/reputation systems and startup financing. Excellent.

Life With Alacrity

We created this site to talk about i-names, which were launched publicly this week at Digital ID World. The launch saw more registrations than any of us would have believed (thanks, Slashdot) and we are happy to see the interest and support. As of now, the promotion is over and i-names have returned to their regular price.

This site is will remain up to provide some basic information and some details about i-names as well as the link to buy them. There is a lot of information out there about i-names, XRI and XDI

This sounds very close to the correct answer for dealing with internet authentication going forward. Anyone have opinions on this stuff?

I want my name NOW!

There is an excellent article in this month's First Monday about using reputation systems to limit the effects of vandalism on public wikis like Wikipedia.

The Puppy Smoothies article has been Slashdotted. Unfortunately, I don't think many of the commentators have RTFAed but there are some interesting perspectives in here nonetheless.

Slashdot | Could a Reputation System Improve Wikipedia?

The reliability of information collected from at large Internet users by open collaborative wikis such as Wikipedia has been a subject of widespread debate. This paper provides a practical proposal for improving user confidence in wiki information by coloring the text of a wiki article based on the venerability of the text. This proposal relies on the philosophy that bad information is less likely to survive a collaborative editing process over large numbers of edits. Colorization would provide users with a clear visual cue as to the level of confidence that they can place in particular assertions made within a wiki article.

I got published in this month's issue of First Monday! Make sure you check out the issue because there are a number of good articles in it.

The material my article covers was first presented at last year's PhreakNIC Conference during a talk that Rattle and I gave on various things we're working on. Video of the talk (Google Video) is available. The point where I talk about my reliability system for Wikipedia is about 30 minutes into the presentation.

Puppy smoothies: Improving the reliability of open, collaborative wikis

The barriers to entry have dropped sufficiently so that, as long as anyone has the will to fight, they'll be able to continue fighting. I think that's the strategic picture that's most pertinent to our time."

What if the Iranians could launch swarms of hundreds of missiles simultaneously? All bets might be off. In such a scenario, the Iranians could conceivably devastate an American naval force. Do the Iranians possess enough missiles to do that? The truth is that we don't know. In the longer term, the trend seems clear.

This is the second half of an article recently discussed here.

The democratization of cruise missile technology, part II

HANDY ONE-LINERS FOR SED (Unix stream editor) Apr. 26, 2004 compiled by Eric Pement - pemente[at]northpark[dot]edu version 5.4

This puts the K in K-rad.

SED one-liners