» Matthew Inman | theoatmeal.com

Dear Sen. Rockefeller, I am a cyber expert. I invented a key technology known as ”IPS” that is a standard part of network defense. I invented hacking techniques like ”sidejacking” that are a standard part of network offense. I am a coder who has written a million lines of production code. I am a ”pentester” who has performed simulated attacks that confirm your worst nightmares about power-grid blackouts and financial meltdowns. ...

Cosmo is huge ” 6 foot 7 and 220 pounds the last time he was weighed, at a detention facility in Long Beach, California on June 26. And yet he’s getting bigger, because Cosmo ” also known as Cosmo the God, the social-engineering mastermind who weaseled his way past security systems at Amazon, Apple, AT&T, PayPal, AOL, Netflix, Network Solutions, and Microsoft ” is just 15 years old. He turns 16 next March, and he may very well do so inside a prison cell. ...

It’s September of an election year, and people are drawing lines, taking stands, and proclaiming their political beliefs. Even the lurkers, who brag that they ”never post political stuff on Facebook” find their trigger fingers twitching over the ”share” button. The internet is a battlefield, and you simply can’t get around online without being drawn into a shootout from time to time. When that happens, these tips will keep you knocking down opponents without losing your cool or becoming a troll. ...

Computational Engineers at the University of Southampton have built a supercomputer from 64 Raspberry Pi computers and Lego. The team, led by Professor Simon Cox, consisted of Richard Boardman, Andy Everett, Steven Johnston, Gereon Kaiping, Neil O’Brien, Mark Scott and Oz Parchment, along with Professor Cox’s son James Cox (aged 6) who provided specialist support on Lego and system testing. Professor Cox comments: ”As soon as we were able to source sufficient Raspberry Pi computers we wanted to see if it was possible to link them together into a supercomputer. We installed and built all of the necessary software on the Pi starting from a standard Debian Wheezy system image and we have published a guide so you can build your own supercomputer.” ...

As software developers, we develop habits that allow us to build products that work and do not fail under stress. Every software developer knows what an ”off-by-one” error is, and like the Karate Kid, we train extensively so we can avoid those traps. We learn how to avoid these and other similar software problems and we sharpen our skills to find logic errors. As we mature as developers, finding logic errors and incomplete solutions becomes our way of life. It defines us. ...

This proposal adds new elements and attribute to [HTML5] to enable different sources of images based on browser and display characteristics. The proposal addresses multiple use cases such as images used in responsive web designs and different images needed for high density displays. This proposal allows content authors to provide user agents with the information they need to select the best image source. The current img element only allows for a single source of an image, but there are numerous use cases where document authors need to define different image sources depending on the factors such as the design, size resolution, and display density. ...

As you probably already heard in recent news, 1,000,001 Apple UDID’s were leaked. It’s unfortunate that so many apps use UDID’s to identify users since it’s extremely insecure. This brings me to WhatsApp, a free messaging service, used by millions of people. Their system runs on a modified version of XMPP (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol). There is nothing wrong with using XMPP, but there is a problem in how WhatsApp handle authentication. ...

A co-worker watched me type the other day and noticed that I use certain Unix commands for purposes other than they are intended. Yes, I abuse Unix commands. » Tom Limoncelli | everythingsysadmin.com

Tengo una Raspbmc instalada en la Raspberry Pi. Al utilizar aptitude para instalar cualquier paquete o actualizar el sistema, recibo el siguiente error: $ sudo aptitude update [ ERR] Leyendo la información de estado E: No se pudo abrir el fichero de bloqueo "/var/lock/aptitude" - open (2: No existe el fichero o el directorio) W: No se pudo bloquear el fichero de almacén. Esto significa habitualmente que dpkg u otra herramienta apt está instalando paquetes. Se abrirá en modo de sólo lectura, ¡se PERDERÁN todos los cambios que realice al estado de los paquetes! En realidad, lo que sucede es que /var/lock es un enlace simbólico que apunta a /run/lock, que no existe, y de ahí que no lo encuentre. Creando el directorio en cuestión, se soluciona el problema: ...