A nice clean wordlist archive. *sigh*

Index of ftp://ftp.ox.ac.uk/pub/wordlists/

Any sort of goodwill remaining in my heart towards the music "industry" is now _gone_. Fuck the RIAA and fuck each and every label that co-operates with them for allowing them to flat-out take advantage of a naive college student running a search engine. The fact that the settlement provided that the student was allowed to _refute_ the claims the RIAA made (effectively, in exchange for the RIAA saying he wasn't stealing anything) in exchange for his $12,000 says two words to me...

Shakedown

...and...

Terrorism.

Fuck the RIAA.

ABCNEWS.com : Record Industry Targets Teen Programmer

Just in case anyone was wondering why the CEO of SCO seems desperate to make the news, no matter what incredibly stupid things he'll have to say to do it.

CBS MarketWatch.com, SCOX history

This has been out a few weeks now, but it's still a reasonably good explanation of how the last sendmail bug works.

Sendmail <= 8.12.8 prescan vulnerability analysis

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CNN.com - Feds nab 135 in cybercrime sweep - May. 16, 2003

Just in case any of you were wondering, pretty much anything from here will do. =)

What to buy Dagmar for Christmas

I don't know what the hell language this is but I am very impressed that Mozilla can render it correctly.

:)

GNUWin II Version 2.25 :: ग्नूविन -- अपनी विण्डोज़ को खोल दें!

*lying unconcious on the floor*

Baen Webscriptions FAQ

Well, this was such a welcome shock(*) to me right now that you could literally knock me over with a feather, so I figure I'll pass it along as something resembling good news.

* - with more and more completely moral things I do every day actually being made illegal by legislation I am beginning to develop what can only be considered a healthy digust of the world at large and a tendency to think that given a chance, companies will immediately attempt to draft legislation, sue, file patents, and otherwise steal everything in existance, and a few things that don't, strictly speaking, exist at all. I'm beginning to mentally associate the phrase "for profit" with "bottomless greed".

Now I suppose the next step will be to find some places online that sell perfectly normal HTML versions of books at prices that reflect the lack of a quarter pound of paper and ink... or just perfectly normal HTML versions of books. I'm not having any of this proprietary reader format nonsense.

Baen Free Library

It doesn't say specifically whether or not the college that was defrauded (I'm not arguing that nothing illegal took place there) was using a Blackboard variant or not, but I'd say it's a pretty safe bet that it was.

Anyone with access to a magstripe writer (common enough at any technical school) could easily have done what this student did. These systems are simply _not_ secure. Not just "a little insecure", not just "a few minor flaws", but entirely _not_ secure.
Just about any technique one would care to name can be used to defraud these things, and Blackboard is trying to use lawyers and spin doctors to cover it up, and everyone loses. The colleges lose money when students beat the system. The students lose money when the colleges won't believe there's a problem. ...and hopefully Blackboard loses money now that word is getting out their system is ancient garbage.

CNN.com - Campus hacker gets probation - Apr. 18, 2003