Yet another development in the Sony DRM saga. Looks like Sony might have moved rather slowly after they were first alerted to a serious risk to consumer safety. BusinessWeek has a fascinating update called “Sony BMG’s Costly Silence”: Sony BMG is in a catfight with a well-known computer-security outfit that became aware of the software … Continue reading Sony versus F-Secure
Responded to an odd incident tonight. An admin noticed UDP ports 517 and 518 were reported as open on a linux system, but they knew of no services that were supposed to be attached to them: # nmap xx.xx.xx.xx -sU -p 500-520 Starting nmap 3.81 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2005-11-28 23:20 PST Interesting ports on … Continue reading Actiontec UDP ports 517 and 518
I’m a big fan of digital camera technology, and thus I usually am quick to support intelligent uses related to detective controls. Take for example a Bed & Breakfast that had issues with people loitering across the street dealing drugs. The B&B installed a camera, took some extracted video to the absent property owner and … Continue reading Auto-nomy no more
Many years ago I rode through the English country-side with an Archaeologist (her house was filled with bones from the Mary Rose excavation) who pointed out the economic reasons for the hedge-rows, the meaning of every stained-glass window…and, as we passed the Holbeche House in Staffordshire, she told me the end of the Gunpowder Plot. … Continue reading Lessons from Guy Fawkes