Dan Kaminsky revealed his discovery of a DNS flaw that could be exploited to direct unwitting users to malicious web addresses,Now, practically on the heels of that announcement, a hacker team that presented at DEFCON has demonstrated how a fundamental design error in the Internet’s border gateway protocol can be used to invisibly eavesdrop.
Month: August 2008
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Man on the roof in Bath city centre
A crowd has gathered outside the cinema at the moment, but unfortunately they are not here to see a film.
Instead they are looking up at the roof of a tall building near us where a man has stripped off some of his clothes and is threatening to jump.
At least I think he is threatening to jump as he is mostly shouting abuse and it’s hard to tell what he’s actually saying. The police are in attendance but the bloke doesn’t want to speak to their negotiator.
It’s all a bit ghoulish.
Update 16:31 GMT: It’s all over apparently. The police have removed the cordon they put up blocking off access to Hot Bath street and most of St. Michael’s Place. The ghouls have gone away as have the photographers and cameramen from the local media. And I no longer need to explain to virtually every single one of our customers what the hell everyone is staring at.
The brilliant miniseries Generation Kill from the makers of the Wire and based on the book by Evan Wright has come to an end.
Alan Sepinwall has been doing some fantastic blogging about the series pretty much episode by episode.
Stark Sands who portrayed Lt. Nate Fick in the series writes about the fratty behavior on the ‘Generation Kill’ set.
Here’s the real Nate Fick giving a presentation and taking questions as part of the Rethinking the Future Nature of Competition & Conflict Seminar Series.
Trailer for his excellent book One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer
James Ransome writes about his experience of making the series and how it turned his life around and is interviewed along with the real life Eric Kocher on MSNBC’s Morning Joe.
Staff Sergeant Eric Kocher is one of the men portrayed in Evan Wright’s Generation Kill. A U.S. Marine and member of the First Reconnaissance Battalion has received two purple Heart and a Bronze star, earned during his tour in Afghanistan and four tours of Iraq. There are five short videos on Big Think where Eric Kocher talks about the Marines, Generation Kill and Killing or Being Killed.
The Register exposes a neat hack using Google’s cache that enables access to password protected parts of websites.
The hack was posted on Hack Forums which ironically is itself password protected so using the Google cache hack here is a version you can read.
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Pick a lock with a bump key
Bump a Lock – Wired How-To Wiki
Also a video tutorial of how to do it.
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9.69 seconds
Usain Bolt wins the Gold medal for the men’s 100m sprint with a World record time of 9.69 seconds and if he’d had any challengers on his shoulders then he’d have run faster but instead he started celebrating his victory at least 5 meters before the line.
Phenomenal! If anything could knock Michael Phelps off the headlines of the newspapers then Usain Bolt’s 100m run I think just did.
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Olympics 2008: Men’s Team Sprint
They said that the Laoshan Velodrome in Beijing was quick but I don’t think anyone was expecting this.
Great Britain’s men’s team sprint trio in the qualifying heat break the world record with a time of 42.950 seconds. The favourites for the Gold medal in this event France cycled in the following heat and could not match the mark set down by Team GB and were in fact a half second slower.
They set down a mark that the favourites for the gold medal France who cycled in the following heat couldn’t match and were half a second slower.
With a time of 17.19 seconds Jamie Staff cycled the fastest ever opening lap.
Edit 11.25 GMT Team GB have raced their way through to the final against France with yet another fast time but it seemed to me that they weren’t even pushing it as hard as they did in the heat. I can’t wait for the final.
Edit 12.12 GMT 43.128 seconds and Great Britain are the Olympic champions in the Men’s Team Sprint.
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How to tap a phone line
Hollywood depicts phone surveillance as the thankless work of sweaty cops hunched over a pair of headphones. In the real world, setting up a wiretap is actually a snap. Regardless of which side of the law you’re on, here are the steps to becoming a landline hacking super sleuth. [via]