A nice little article on building BSD ports for the Outguess and Steghide utilities.

Hiding Secrets with Steganography [Dec. 04, 2003]

] RHUM is an easy to use script for merging updated RPMs
] into a RedHat style distribution. RHUM can merge RedHat's
] RPM Updates and your own custom RPMs into the copy of
] RedHat you use for Kickstart installs, eliminating the
] need to apply RPM Updates after install. This script can
] also use Fedora Core has a base for building custom
] distributions.

I have updated RHUM to work with Fedora Core. You can now create custom Linux distributions based of Fedora using RHUM the say way as RedHat 6 through 9.

There is also a crude script linked from this page that will create a network install base using the yarrow images.

RHUM - RedHat Update Munger (Version 1.2)

] Startup MagiQ Technologies Inc. yesterday announced it's
] shipping what appears to be the first security system
] based on quantum cryptography.
]
] Quantum cryptography goes a step further than electronic
] cryptography through its employment of a stream of
] photons, the quantum properties of which determine the
] key. The fun part is that if an intruder observes or
] intercepts the transmission, those properties get changed
] -- an unavoidable principle of quantum mechanics --
] meaning the sender and receiver can tell if anyone is
] eavesdropping. Perhaps more important, the key can't be
] copied or faked (see Optical Science Gets Spookier and
] Quantum Cipher Sent by Fiber ).
]
] It's a potential breaththrough, though working with
] photons has never been easy, and, as the optical
] networking bubble has shown, it can be an expensive way
] to build technology.
]
] MagiQ's Navajo system, a box made to fit in a standard
] telecom rack, was unveiled in February and began beta
] trials in March.

Startup Says Quantum Crypto Is Real

Dolemite wrote:
] PhreakNIC, for those of you raised by wolves, is an annual
] technology and culture exhibition (the kinder, gentler name
] for "Hacker Convention") in Nashville, TN. This year's event
] is all over, except for a few blood tests that we're still
] awaiting results on, but if you missed it you can catch
] some of the events through the video feeds. Wilpig was
] nice enough to set up a recorder on ConTV, but unfortunately
] it crashed a couple of times. Some of the best attended talks
] were lost.
]
] Seriously, just download the .avi files, as they are smaller
] (DiVX Format) and have been edited. The raw .wmv files are
] labeled based on the original schedule, not the actual
] execution of such schedule. For instance, the cable feed
] wasn't set up for the Welcome, so if you download it you'll be
] cursing at the fact that you have an hour of Nashville Tourism
] commercials.

Not just crashed. But a little power outage caused a few to be lost. :( The crash claimed two the power outage claimed two or three.

RE: Videos from PhreakNIC 7 Online

] Parents of students who attend an Illinois school
] district are suing over the use of Wi-Fi technology in
] classrooms, alleging that exposure to the low-level radio
] waves may be damaging to students' health.

I wonder how many of these parents have and use cell phones and wireless home phones around these children?

Parents sue school district for Wi-Fi use | CNET News.com

] VeriSign Inc., the firm that operates a key piece of the
] Internet's address system, said it would temporarily shut
] down a new service that makes money off the typos of Web
] users after the Internet's oversight body threatened to
] take legal action against the company.

Thats great!

However, at the time I blogged this, the gtld's were still sending me to sitefinder..

VeriSign Freezes Search Service (TechNews.com)

] California (Reuters) -- A company calling itself Lover
] Spy has begun offering a way for jealous lovers -- and
] anyone else -- to spy on the computer activity of their
] mates by sending an electronic greeting, the equivalent
] of a thinking-of-you card, that doubles as a bugging
] device.

]
] Computer security experts said the Lover Spy service and
] software appeared to violate U.S. law, but also said the
] surveillance program pointed to an increasingly common
] way for hackers to seize control of computers.
]
] Marketed as a way to "catch a cheating lover," the Lover
] Spy company offers to send an e-mail greeting card to
] lure the victim to a Web site that will download onto the
] victim's computer a trojan program to be used for spying.

Illegal e-cards to spy on your lover

The University of Maryland has named the Cyrillic Projector and its solution as "Lesson 4" in one of their Fall cryptography courses.

University of Maryland - Cyrillic Projector Studies

I was reading my weblogs earlier today, and noticed this webpage linking to my Projector webpage. It claimed to have the solution technique for Sanborn's decade-old Cyrillic Projector, though it didn't have any English plaintext or any kind of contact information.

I've seen anonymous "solutions" before with no basis in reality, so treated it with skepticism at first, but, several hours and a flurry of IMs, emails, and Excel spreadsheets later, I can confirm -- somebody's cracked it! More details will be coming soon, as I try to find out *who* did it so that they can be congratulated properly, and post the full English plaintext. In the meantime, anyone who wants to see the Russian plaintext, email or IM me privately and I'll show you what I've verified so far. I need help translating!

Elonka :)

Cyrillic Projector Code - Cracked!

] On Tuesday, Sun researchers plan to report that they have
] discovered a way to transmit data inside a computer much
] more quickly than current techniques allow. By placing
] the edge of one chip directly in contact with its
] neighbor, it may be possible to move data 60 to 100 times
] as fast as the present top speeds.

New Sun Microsystems Chip May Unseat the Circuit Board