The familiar .com, .net, .org and 18 other suffixes — officially "generic top-level domains" — could be joined by a seemingly endless stream of new ones next year under a landmark change approved last summer by the Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers, the entity that oversees the Web's address system.

Tourists might find information about the Liberty Bell, for example, at a site ending in .philly. A rapper might apply for a Web address ending in .hiphop.

"Whatever is open to the imagination can be applied for," says Paul Levins, ICANN's vice president of corporate affairs. "It could translate into one of the largest marketing and branding opportunities in history."

ICANN needs to be stopped. They proposing and prompting concepts that will irrevocably damage the Internet with essentially no one to keep them in check.

Something seriously must be done about the pollution of the TLDs.

From RFC 1591 in 1994:

2. The Top Level Structure of the Domain Names

In the Domain Name System (DNS) naming of computers there is a
hierarchy of names. The root of system is unnamed. There are a set
of what are called "top-level domain names" (TLDs). These are the
generic TLDs (EDU, COM, NET, ORG, GOV, MIL, and INT), and the two
letter country codes from ISO-3166. It is extremely unlikely that
any other TLDs will be created.

Postel must be screaming in his grave to know ICANN rolled like a dog in heat to special interests and already created bullshit TLDs like:

*.aero
*.asia
*.biz
*.cat
*.coop
*.info
*.jobs
*.mil
*.mobi
*.museum
*.name
*.pro
*.tel
*.travel

This is insanity. ICANN's mission statement is not to facilitate "the largest marketing and branding opportunities in history." Its to manage and preserve the operational stability of the Internet's addressing systems! When the hell did it become being a stooge for the world's ISPs?

Fuck. This. Shit.

ICANN == Whores

Very cool. The drums fit well with this song.

Lux Aeterna Cover

Here are a few of my favorite science fiction books, and what I learned from them (they are roughly in my favorite order):null

Arrington's book list

Grok This: Forget The Business Books, Go Sci-Fi To Stoke Your Imagination

Or: How Billy hacked Zombie Hooker Nightmare to get his name on TV during [adult swim].

 public static function submit(arg0:String, arg1:Number) : String
    {
        strURI = null;
        nGameId = null;
        nScore = NaN;
        nTime = NaN;
        strTime = null;
        strN1 = null;
        strN2 = null;
        n1 = NaN;
        n2 = NaN;
        nAlgo = NaN;
        strToPass = null;
        encrypted_data = null;
        submission_data = null;
        variables = null;
        request = null;
        gameID = arg0;
        score = arg1;
        try {
                strURI = ExternalInterface.call("getLittleServer");
                nGameId = gameID;
                nScore = score;
                nTime = ExternalInterface.call("getSrvrTime");
                strTime = toString();
                strN1 = substr(253, 3);
                strN2 = substr(252, 3);
                n1 = parseInt(strN1);
                n2 = parseInt(strN2);
                nAlgo = n1 * n2 * nScore + nScore;
                strToPass = nGameId + "," + nScore + "," + nTime + "," + nAlgo;
//**********************
//**********************
//**********************

                encrypted_data = MD5.hash(strToPass);
                submission_data = "score=" + nScore + "|gameId=" + nGameId + "|timestamp=" + nTime + "|key=" + encrypted_data;

//**********************
//**********************
//**********************

                variables = new URLVariables();
            variables.attr1 = submission_data;
                request = new URLRequest(strURI);
            request.data = variables;
            navigateToURL(request, "_self");
            return submission_data;
        
        } catch (e:Error) {
            var loc1:* = e;
                gameID = null;
        
        }
        return null;
        
    }

Practical uses of SWFScan

I love getting the emails that go:

Dear Billy,

blah blah blah, tried every possible option, blah blah blah, new rule, blah blah blah, nothing I can do.

When really they just could have written: "Dear Billy, Fuck You."

...

Man tries to pay bill with spider drawing

People who advertise private alphas piss me off. Why the hell are you issuing announcements of a private goddamn alpha? Its *private* and an *alpha*! Worst is when someone announces that a private alpha will soon begin!

Why are you announcing anything? You don't have anything yet! You have an idea. Announcing to the world "I have an idea and I'm going to privately ask some people to look at my idea" is not something that needs to be announced. You don't even know if the idea is going to work or not. That's why its a damn alpha!

....

John Resig, I'm going to punch you in the face.

Caleb: What do you think Jeff? Did you like it?
Jeff: I like the other 5 we had at the other place.

ahhhh memories.

SPI Labs Dinner

After months of hard work and late caffeine-fueled nights, HP’s Web Security Research Group is proud to release HP SWFScan.

HP SWFScan is a free security tool to help developers find and fix security vulnerabilities in applications developed with the Adobe Flash Platform. The tool is the first of its kind to decompile applications developed with the Flash platform and perform static analysis to understand their behaviors. This helps developers without security backgrounds identify vulnerabilities hidden within the application which cannot be detected with dynamic analysis methods.

Simply, point HP SWFScan at the SWF file for any Flash application and it will:

* Decompile the ActionScript 2 or ActionScript 3 bytecode back to the original source code.
* Audit the code for over 60 vulnerabilities including exposure of confidential data, Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) and cross-domain privilege escalation.
* Validate the Flash application adherence with Adobe's security best practices

About SWFScan
Download here

Free Flash Security tool with SWFScan

I win!

Billy Wins a Cheeseburger