Nina "Nenashga" Reiser, 31, was last seen on Sept. 3 dropping off her children with their father, Hans Reiser, 43. Her abandoned car was found in North Oakland Sept. 9, and authorities this week issued a bulletin describing the mother of two as "at risk" and a possible victim of foul play.

Hans Reiser's wife missing

"I met my wife on your captcha!!!" -- Steve, from New York

OK, this is funny... Hotornot captcha.

Captcha Mashup

By a 20-13 vote Thursday that partially followed party lines, the House Judiciary Committee approved a bill that would require broadband providers to abide by strict Net neutrality principles, meaning that their networks must be operated in a "nondiscriminatory" manner.

About time.

House panel votes for Net neutrality

I mention this one in particular because Strongbad mentions Linux.

Probably the funniest of the Homestarrunner cartoons.

Strongbad gets a nasty email virus

"Whitedust is running a very interesting article with the DEF CON speaker and cryptographer Elonka Dunin. The article covers her career and specifically her involvement with the CIA and other US Military agencies."

Slashdot | Interview With Cryptographer Elonka Dunin

Hackers are hijacking thousands of PCs to spy on users, shake down online businesses, steal identities and send millions of pieces of spam. If you think your computer is safe, think again.

This is a really good article on the botnet/spyware industry. Interestingly enough the botnet operator who agreed to be interviewed for this article did so on the condition of anonymity. According to Slashdot the Washington Post published his hometown as the "location" caption for an odd image in the article. He lives in a very small town. Chances are he is going to prison.

Invasion of the Computer Snatchers

JS/UIX is an UN*X-like OS for standard web-browsers, written entirely in JavaScript (no plug-ins used). It comprises a virtual machine, shell, virtual file-system, process-management, and brings its own terminal with screen- and keyboard-mapping.

File under "stupid web tricks". This is neat, but I can't think of a single useful application.

A more advanced security model for Javascript in web browsers is necessary. I have no idea what this adds to the argument.. Aside from the fact that it's a good example of how you can do much more with Javascript then is widely understood. Acidus has been doing some interesting research in this space. I look forward to the point when he can quit being tight-lipped and share some of the stuff he has come up with. It's the kind of stuff that will send a shockwave through the security and web development community.

JS/UIX - Unix implemented in Javascript

Decius wrote:

The Department will also implement Basic Access Control (BAC) to mitigate further any potential threat of skimming or eavesdropping. BAC recently has been adopted as a best practice by the ICAO New Technologies Working Group and will soon be formally added to the ICAO specifications. BAC utilizes a form of Personal Identification Number (PIN) that must be physically read in order to unlock the data on the chip. In this case, the PIN will be derived from the printed characters from the second line of data on the Machine-Readable Zone that is visibly printed on the passport data page. The BAC also results in the communication between the chip and the reader being encrypted, providing further protection.

Most of the folks commenting on the new RFID rule didn't mention this. This will satisfy most of the security concerns.

But see Schneier's piece on Wired about it.

I agree with Schneir, particularly with what he says about the State Department not having given compelling reason to make passports wirelessly readable.

RE: Anti-skimming covers are not the only feature in new passports.

Zimbra is an open source server and client technology for next-generation enterprise messaging and collaboration. Zimbra delivers innovation for both the administrator and the end-user as well as compatability with existing infrastructure and applications (both open source and proprietary). Zimbra is open source in order to leverage the collective talent of the greater community, and to ensure investment protection for Zimbra partners and end-users.

Very nicely put together AJAX collaboration suite. This looks like an open source replacement for Exchange! I wish we administrated this at work instead of Mirapoint's (less functional) equivalent. Watch the flash demo, then try the live demo.

Zimbra™

(Google Video, in Beta now)

(Keep it quiet ;-)

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