Geek Bazaar

Behind every great technology there’s almost always a great geek, the men and women whose vision and invention helped create the world and its technology as we know it.

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KaminskyBox

Quite pathetic vulnerability. More coverage on el Reg.

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Anyone thinking of going?

This weekend I thought I should do some more volunteering…haven’t done something good in a while I went to Karpaz in North Cyprus to help some other volunteers with some projects they are working on, trying to increase the population of sea turtles.

I must say it was something wonderful, just a small summary of what we did:

Friday 22nd August 2008
At 6pm we went down to this beach to dig down a nest. Only 1 hatched turtle was found. The rest of the eggs were deep in the sand and the water has reached them, which I’ve learnt that it is not good, so some time soon we had to move the eggs out of this nest and place them in another nest.

Saturday 23rd August 2008
At 6am we went down to the beach to dig another nest. We found around 12 turtles alive, most of them who hatched early so they had still some things attached to them. Still we picked them and kept them safe for 1 day until their belly thingy closes up. We found also another 30 eggs which were open, which means these turtles went out of the nest on their own. From the footprints we found, some of them survived, some of them didn’t as because of light pollution they take a wrong direction and usually are killed from other animals. We took the sea turtles back to where we are camped, measured them etc.

At 6pm we started digging the nest we opened yesterday, made a new nest and moved 177 eggs from one nest to the other. It took us around 1.5 hours to complete this process.

Sunday 24th August 2008
Wake up again at 6am and went to another beach and opened a nest where 57 sea turtles starting coming out of their own. Took them back to the camping site, measured them and we released them to the sea with other turtles and swam a little bit with them to make sure they head out of the beach..

Well guys, I can assure you it was a fantastic experience! Hopefully next year I should go for some longer time, anyone interested!!

Well whoever reads this post, anyone interested to go directly can call Hasan on 0090 533 8641063.

Enjoy

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Product Details The USB-powered Beagle Board is a low-cost, fan-less single board computer that unleashes laptop-like performance and expandability without the bulk, expense, or noise of typical desktop machines.

OMAP3530 processor highlights:

• Over 1,200 Dhrystone MIPS using the superscalar ARM Cortex-A8 with highly accurate branch prediction and 256KB L2 cache running at up to 600MHz
• OpenGL© ES 2.0 capable 2D/3D graphics accelerator capable of rendering 10 million polygons per second
• HD video capable TMS320C64x+ DSP for versatile signal processing at up to 430MHz
• USB power via complete chip-set with minimal additional power-consuming logic

Expansion capability and power options to satisfy your imagination:

• DVI-D for connecting digital computer monitors
• Compatibility with a huge collection of USB peripherals including hubs, keyboards, mice, WiFi, Bluetooth, web cameras, and much more
• MMC+/SD/SDIO interface for memory or wireless connectivity
• S-Video out for connecting your NTSC or PAL television or wearable visor
• Stereo audio in and out for a microphone and headphones or speakers
• Power via typical USB chargers for cell phones from your laptop, from an automobile adapter, from batteries, or even from a solar backpack

please please print me this on my T-Shirt:

http://skypher.com/wiki/index.php?title=ASCII_Art/Shellcode/Julia

which is why i stopped recommending Linux to the masses :-p

It’s been a while since I posted on Geek Bazaar, but when I saw this ad I just had to post it.

Today I introduced myself, to my own feelings!

Finally, yesterday evening I’ve seen Anathema live. By surprise last Tuesday I was talking to a friend and found out that Anathema will be playing live in Limassol, Cyprus. It was a very good concert, they played well live and played tracks from Serenades, The Silent Enigma, Eternity, Alternative 4, Judgement and A Natural disaster, 2 and a half hours concert. Since it was a small club (with just around 300 people) it was possible to meet the guys personally after the concert and have a chat. None of them offered a beer though (not like Septic Flesh) even if I have all their cd’s Just thought of uploading some pictures

Vincent live (Robert the artistic photo )
Danny (the guitarist) the emotional
Female Vocalist
Anathema Live

Hackers, errrm, security researchers compete whose dick is bigger…
This time publicly, winner gets a blue rosette ribbon.
More here.

Inside the shadowy underworld where rogue employees sell holes in their companies’ software. The buyers: security firms, mobsters, and — surprise — the U.S. government.

More here

Firefox Mobile Concept Video from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.

Darkreading has an article on Malware-Driven Child Porn.  While child porn is definitely bad, and anyone doing it should be punished - there is no question about that - it is not as simple as many people make it to be. Being in possession of child porn does not (and should not) mean that you’re doing it. There are so many ways that child porn can end up on one’s computer. The article mentions malware, but simply browsing to some websites might be enough to cache such content - and the websites need not have visible child porn.

The person featured in the article lost his job and his family as a result of this malware infection. How many victims will it take until the witch hunt is over?

Paul Ewald gave a talk at TED about how can we make harmful organisms more mild. Today’s pharmaceutical research and products work on fighting evolution of harmful organisms. His suggestions is that this is mostly wrong and that we should instead be identifying ways to make evolution work for us and make it happen. Of course he describes a few studies to prove the point.

I wonder how this applies to other areas of study, like Infosec. While some might see Infosec as a technology problem, it is in fact mostly a human problem in the end of the day.

“Context over dogma” as BMW like to put it …

Lacoste’s ad for Roland Garros 2008 & 75th anniversary celebration:

I <3 futuristic visor.