Hacker News Reader

konadon Main GNU source repository server compromised

SQL injection

konadon Main GNU source repository server compromised

“But he has nothing on at all,” said a little child at last. “Good heavens! listen to the voice of an innocent child,” said the father, and one whispered to the other what the child had said. “But he has nothing on at all,” cried at last the whole people. That made a deep impression upon the emperor, for it seemed to him that they were right; but he thought to himself, “Now I must bear up to the end.” And the chamberlains walked with still greater dignity, as if they carried the train which did not exist.

konadon Main GNU source repository server compromised

lol, pwned twice in 7 years, "incredibly talented hackers" lololololo

konadon Main GNU source repository server compromised

Headline missed a word : "again"

Original issue date: August 13, 2003

http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2003-21.html

ftp://ftp.gnu.org/MISSING-FILES.README

                              Moving Forward

All releases after the 2003-08-01 date will have checksums GPG-signed by the GNU maintainer who prepared the release. This assures automatic certification of the integrity of all GNU source from that date onward.

konadon Startup Ideas Every Nerd Has (That Never Work)

http://www.changedetection.com/

konadon BitTorrent Based DNS To Counter US Domain Seizures

I'm not going to be using my CC on a site designated a terrorist organisation by the US Govt. anyway.

Using OpenAuth / OpenID / Facebook login etc. would mitigate the password problem.

konadon BitTorrent Based DNS To Counter US Domain Seizures

Isn't that the same problem as downloading a torrent ?

konadon Comparing Digital Video Downloads of Interlaced TV Shows

> Unfortunately, interlacing only works with ancient CRT TVs - modern LCD screens

You'll find expensive high end digital projectors such as the ones from Doremi also do interlacing. It's one of the banes of my life as we project lots of user generated content for our film festivals. Lots and lots of people never look at their films with interlacing, even fewer understand it.

I have shown someone their own film with the fields reversed and consequent shimmering and they couldn't identify the problem, some have even not noticed!

Also, NTSC isn't 30fps it is 29.97

I see lots of temporal artifacts on UK TV from NTSC -> PAL conversion. I use the opening credits of Will & Grace as my canonical example, interestingly that have changed (for the better) as the show got more series.

Final Cut's conversion introduces temporal artifacts.

I have been working on an FFT fps transcoder for a while but nothing to show as of yet.

I've spent quite a bit of time in India and if you watch Star TV satellite broadcasts on a CRT you will see lots of footage with reversed fields.

Get LCD panels out of the edit suites!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STAR_TV_%28Asia%29

konadon SQL injection with raw MD5 hashes

I know there was already a shorter solution but

instead of '||'[1-9]

one could have searched for

'!=' or '<>' thus opening up the search space

konadon SQL injection with raw MD5 hashes

magic_quotes is turned off by default for a reason too.

konadon Self-hosting Lisp-to-C compiler in 384 lines of Lisp

Brucee used to assign "Lisp in C" and "C in Lisp" when he was teaching.

when he wasn't messing with people :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_V_Shaney

konadon Mozilla Is Designing a New Programming Language Language Called Rust

Go has users

konadon Mozilla Is Designing a New Programming Language Language Called Rust

* Go has 1000s of active programmers

konadon Mozilla Is Designing a New Programming Language Language Called Rust

I think the fact that Rust is older and yet Go has 1000s of active programmers is indicative of something. "Ship early, ship often" springs to mind. The Plan9 community has been working like that for years, almost every day an updated version is available (the distro cdrom is rebuilt every night) with bug fixes / improvements / new stuff.

konadon Apple, Microsoft, and Google called out by Mozilla to "stop being evil"

I agree entirely with the sentiment, it would be one of the reasons I don't use Windows if I didn't have better reasons already. However, when you agreed to the EULA you gave permission to Microsoft to make any changes at likes at any time it chooses. I don't have the other two bits of software but I expect you gave them the same permission via the EULA too.

konadon SSH Commands / Tricks

I know, I'm a long time plan9 user, I know what it could be like.

konadon SSH Commands / Tricks

> When ssh is the foundation of your security architecture, you know things aren't working as they should.

Rob Pike

http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/18/11532...

konadon Intel Launches Atom CPU With Integrated FPGA

I can foresee SSL offloading, if it can pump through 10mbps of plain->SSL

konadon Personal Surveillance Drones are here.

Time to build an anti-drone SAM

konadon Between Gmail, Twitter And Now Facebook, There Is No Universal Inbox, Yet.

? Lies