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Apache server has been getting flooded with these entries:

60.12.136.66 - - [29/Nov/2007:12:21:35 +0100] “GET / HTTP/1.1″ 200 516 “10.101.4.58:15871/cgi-bin/blockpage.cgi?ws-session=1752192366″ “*WAPT 4.0*”

60.12.136.66 - that’s registered in China Beijing
blockpage.cgi - that’s WebSense (web site filtering / censor product)
WAPT - a load and stress testing tool for websites and web-based applications.

any ideas?

here

Title: Software and the concurrency revolution:  designing for multiple cores

Date: Monday, December 3, 2007

Time: 8:00 AM-11:00 AM PT/11:00 AM-2:00 PM ET

Location: Dr Dobbs Island, Second Life (Adjourning later to Intel Software Network island)

SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Dr%20Dobbs%20Island/251/122/25

Centerpiece of this half-day event will be a virtual Town Hall, hosted by Dr. Dobb’s Editorial Director Jonathan Erickson, featuring Herb Sutter (Architect, Microsoft, and chair of the ISO C++ Standards committee) and James Reinders (Chief Evangelist and Threading Guru for Intel Software Products) on key issues and requirements for achieving the promise of parallelization. Preceding the Town Hall, Tim Mattson (Intel Principal Engineer, Designer of the 80 Core test chip parallel application and one of the creators of Open MP) will give a brief introduction on how Intel is managing the transition to a multi-core world. All experts will be available for Q&A, and look forward to answering your questions. Tours of Intel’s islands will follow the presentations.

Please note: REGISTRATION IS MANDATORY FOR THIS SPECIAL EVENT. Direct recipients of this notice are already registered and need do nothing further. Please arrive on Dr Dobbs Island at the appointed time, using the avatar name with which you registered. IF YOU FORWARD THIS LETTER, please advise recipients to register at: http://www.life20.net/intel1reg.php

This is just a reminder to myself to watch this. If anyone wants to join …

Short film by Claude Lelouch (1976) that has become a legend among car and movie lovers alike.
Read more about the movie here.

Enjoy

Nice

was gonna post this here but posted it on Maltainfosec.org.

This sounds like from Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy, but apparently by observing the quantum state of the universe, we are unwillingly playing dice, and forcing multistate quantum systems to one state, thus setting the outcome of a quantum event!
Just observing the dark energy in the 1998 supernova explosion might have speeded up the decay of the universe…
More here.

I always said the universe is a fun place to be in…

The schedule looks good with lots of potentially high quality talks.

Interested in the following:

• Toying with barcodes
• Port Scanning improved
• The Virus Underground
• An analysis of targeted attacks from 2005 to 2007
• The demise of electronic voting in The Netherlands
• Playstation Portable Cracking
• Sex 2.0
• OpenSER SIP Server
• Ruby on Rails Security
• Cybercrime 2.0
• Relay attacks on card payment: vulnerabilities and defences

Anyone going / interested ? 80 euros

i had a hard time not getting emotional over this one

use open standards. More shirts and *wear at the Mozilla Store.

here. These guys own. I especially like this quote:

“All of this is about self-selecting for people just like you,” says Levchin. “He thinks like me, he’s just as geeky, and he doesn’t get laid very often. Great hire! We’ll get along perfectly.”

.. or maybe this one:

“The difference between Google and PayPal was that Google wanted to hire Ph.D.s, and PayPal wanted to hire the people who got into Ph.D. programs and dropped out,”

I’ve got to the point where I have even been asking women I am meeting in the streets to marry me, but they always say no!

Ugliest man in the world

Jeff Moss, the person behind Blackhat and Defcon, talks about the “hacker underground” (or lack of) and the media.

It’s what we always suspected: encryption won’t save you.

Wired has a very interesting feature on Phil Zimmermann defending Hushmail over turning emails to the US govt. Lesson learnt: in the end of the day, it doesn’t matter if hushmail doesn’t store your emails in unencrypted form, if they need give out your emails following a court order, they can always intercept the credentials with which you encrypted the emails.

a scientific test on bbc. first time i did this (3 weeks ago or more) i got 10 out of 20 right / wrong. this time i got 18 right.

what’s your score?

China’s way of doing things … a cloned version

According to Pocket-int, the iphones are sending back sensitive information to their big daddy Steve Jobs. They have screenshots ! wii !