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Identity and hypocrisy

Thursday, September 20th, 2007

I relaized today that I’m a hypocrite.
On the one hand, I’m a big proponent of OpenID. I think that tying identity to individuals, rather than services, makes sense and is the only sensible way to handle id management on the internet.
That doesn’t mesh well, though, with my general security policy and open derision […]

Happy Birthday to…all of us!

Monday, August 7th, 2006

As Ryan over at 27B/6 reminds us, it’s the World Wide Web’s birthday! 15 years ago yesterday Tim Berners-Lee posted a message to the alt.hypertext newsgroup announcing CERN’s W3 project and offering “a prototype hypertext editor for the NeXT, and a browser for line mode terminals which runs on almost anything” to anyone who was […]

NYCBSDCon 2005

Wednesday, September 7th, 2005

In the mail yesterday; pretty much speaks for itself. :
> (REMINDER: There is no monthly September meeting at the Apple Store this month due to NYCBSDCon.)
>
>Speakers and topics are now set for NYCBSDCon 2005 to be held at Columbia University in Manhattan on September 17th 2005.
>
> The speaker list is impressive. Scheduled speakers and […]

Big News for OpenBSD

Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005

Theo de Raadt publically announced yesterday that the 3.8 release will make possibly the biggest change in the changelog to date: they’re recongfiguring malloc(3):
> This release will bring a lot of new ideas from us. One of them in particular is somewhat risky. I think it is time to talk about that one, […]

OpenNTPD 3.7 Released

Wednesday, June 8th, 2005

Just received from Henning Brauer on openbsd-announce:
>OpenNTPD 3.7 has just been released. It will be available from the mirrors listed at http://www.openntpd.org/ shortly. This is our third formal release.
>
> OpenNTPD is a FREE, easy to use implementation of the Network Time Protocol. It provides the ability to sync the local clock to remote NTP servers […]

OpenSource for the Masses: Clip Art

Wednesday, June 1st, 2005

A bit a follow-up to the earlier discussion of [opensource word processors](http://www.engatiki.org/2005/04/29/6): If one of the things that’s held you back from finally giving up on Office is the clip art–and lets face it, corny as it is, we all use it, and lack of it has been one of OpenOffice’s failings–help is here. […]

Nokia: How to Do Opensource Right

Friday, May 27th, 2005

The [Nokia 770](http://www.nokia.com/770) has gotten a lot of press in the last couple of days, but it deserves a little more. Nokia has always been hacker and homebrew friendly. Most of their consumer devices use [Symbian](http://www.symbian.com/), which provides good docs and runs a fairly useful developer site, and this attitute of openess is […]

OpenSSH 4.1 Released

Thursday, May 26th, 2005

Latest news from the hackathon: OpenSSH 4.1 has been officially released. Damien (drm@) just sent the email:
> OpenSSH 4.1 has just been released. It will be available from the mirrors listed at http://www.openssh.com/ shortly.
> OpenSSH is a 100% complete SSH protocol version 1.3, 1.5 and 2.0 implementation and includes sftp client and server […]

Apple and Open Source: Tigers Just Don’t Change Their Stripes

Tuesday, May 17th, 2005

The other day I [took Laurie at TUAW to task](http://www.tuaw.com/2005/05/12/if-you-like-safari-youll-like-shiira#comments) over her suggestion that Apple implement [Shiira](http://hmdt-web.net/shiira/index-e.html)’s “Tab Exposé” feature in Safari:
>> It’s a surprisingly handy feature that I implore Apple to add to Safari itself. Are you listening, Dave Hyatt?
>
> Probably, he is. But here’s an idea: why don’t we encourage people to support […]

jailing.net

Monday, May 16th, 2005

As a followup to his BSDCan talks, [Isaac Levy](http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/speaker.php?id=96) has launched [jailing.net](http://jailing.net), his [jail(8)](http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=jail&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE+and+Ports&format=html)-related site. The site will be user-oriented (the developers will presumably continue to meet elsewhere) and provide both docs and forums. From the main site:
> The mission of jailing.net is as follows:
>
> 1) To centralize and keep track resources on […]

BSDCan 2005 Roundups

Monday, May 16th, 2005

[BSDCan 2005](http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/) wrapped up yesterday in Ottowa. Looks like it was a good time, and at least two people blogged it. [Dru Lavigne](http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/73) should probably be considered the blogger of record, and has a great rundown on who was there, who wasn’t, and what went on at the panels. She also offers […]

HTT Update

Monday, May 16th, 2005

As he promised, Colin has posted a comprehensive [write-up](http://www.daemonology.net/papers/htt.pdf) of his presentation on Hyperthreading security exploits. As it turns out, it’s a development on familiar cache exploits. [Greg Lehey](http://www.lemis.com/~grog) (grog) [sums up](http://www.lemis.com/~grog/diary-may2005.html):
>he was utilizing differences in cache access times to decide what another program was doing. That doesn’t sound very dangerous until […]

Hyper-Threading Only Mostly Harmless

Friday, May 13th, 2005

[BSDCan2005](http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/) isn’t even in full swing yet–it kicks off in earnest in about 15 minutes–but the big news has already started to roll in: [Colin Percival](http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/work/colin.percival/) has detected a potentially serious flaw in Intel’s Hyper-Threading, and his public announcement will be one of the first panels.
> Percival, a FreeBSD committer and security […]

[Announce-NY]: Final Perlsemny meeting

Thursday, May 12th, 2005

[Perl Seminar New York](http://groups.yahoo.com/group/perlsemny/) sends the following:
> Our final official meeting for the 2004-05 season will take place on the third Tuesday of May at the usual location:
> Tuesday, May 17, 2005, 6:15-8:15 pm
> NYPC User Group
> 481 8 Avenue (Ramada New Yorker hotel)
> Suite 1560
> between 34th & 35th Sts, Manhattan, right near Penn […]

SSH vulnerability?

Thursday, May 12th, 2005

There has been a lot of discussion in the OpenBSD community (and probably elsewhere, but OpenBSD has a special relationship to OpenSSH) over a paper published by some MIT students regarding a supposed SSH exploit. OpenBSD being the system of choice for the Practical Paranoid (as well at the pratically paranoid and plain old […]

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