A harrowing first-person account has been published by BBC journalists who were arrested and tortured in Libya. The role of identities in these conflicts is illuminating. Note for example that one of the three journalists, a Palestinian, receives the harshest treatment. The torturer seems to call out bad relations between Libya and Hamas, as well … Continue reading BBC Journalists Tortured by Libyan Military
It is hard for me, an alumnus of both the London School of Economics (LSE) and the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), not to juxtaposition their announcements on recent international news. Professor Stephen Chan OBE at SOAS has provided commentary on the characteristics of the current uprisings in Libya and Egypt and the … Continue reading The London Schools on Libya
Provocative title? Although I originally am from Kansas I spent several years working and living in Wisconsin so I know the area fairly well. Remember the book called “What’s the Matter with Kansas” by Thomas Frank? It seems like he might want to publish a new edition that takes a look at the roots of … Continue reading WTF is Wrong with Wisconsin?
Microsoft and researchers at North Carolina State suggest rootkits in virtual environments can be found and removed or blocked by leveraging the hypervisor’s physical memory: With hook indirection, HookSafe relocates protected hooks to a continuous memory space and regulates accesses to them by leveraging hardware based page-level protection. Our experimental results with nine real-world rootkits … Continue reading Hypervisor Anti-rootkit: Hooksafe