miniblog.

Hm, turns out Drupal allows the whole world to create accounts by default. Yikes.

I can understand people buying WoW gold, but twitter followers?!

for i in map(print,([''.join(list(map(lambda x: chr(ord(x)%26+65), x))) for x in 'ERRABUGLCZERUGBANZGFHW'[::-1].split('Z')])): pass

Chip and Pin is broken:

Impressed with how accessible EFF's explanation of email encryption is:

Tough to be an ISP -- need a backdoor for the government, but what if others get access to it?

Deeply cool 2001 attack on IBM 4785 (hw crypto):

Blogged: Paranoid Firefox -- reducing risk from exploits and increasing privacy:

Google partly penetrated, perpetrators attempting to access gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists.

Interesting commentary on privacy in the US:

Baking a cake is not a protocol, someone else must eat the cake to make it a protocol. -- Schneier

the joy(!) of perl: or and || are the same operator but have different precedence.

Unix thought of the day: spot the problem with 'cp -r * backup/'

try this in Python: 'from __future__ import braces'. There's only one way to do it, and Python doesn't think that's it.

@aldiko wonderful app but why doesn't it use project gutenburg as a source?