March 2010
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From Stored XSS to DDoS, almost
The backbone of science is sharing your failed experiments so here goes.
I was a little frightened when directed to RFC 2397. Basically it says that included objects that you would reference by a URL can be provided inline in one or more forms. It looks like this:
<img src=”data:image/png;base64,alkj2K09…..” />
Try it. It’s kind of neat-o. The idea I had was...
Ohh...: Does anyone ever talk about what sort of... →
Does anyone ever talk about what sort of psychological relief Walmart brought to the individual in the small town, in terms of alleviating the burden of over-judgmental townies who ran the local Rx, hardware, grocery, etc., by offering purchasing anonymity (I mean socially; not in terms of…
Everything lost is something else gained, and vice versa. Walmart has a lot of detractors and a...
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DoSassination Market
From Wikipedia:
An assassination market is a prediction market where any party can place a bet (using anonymous electronic money, and pseudonymous remailers) on the date of death of a given individual, and collect a payoff if they “guess” the date accurately. This would incentivise assassination of individuals because the assassin, knowing when the action would take place, could...
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So Long, And No Thanks for the Externalities: The... →
If you have to deal with security in any kind of professional capacity it is worth your time to read the the 10.5 pages of text in tihs paper.
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elitehackercontest.meh
Brilliant idea of the day.
I register the domain, “elitehackingcontest.org” or somesuch nonesense. I make sure the website says that the target sites are “realistically simulated Internet sites”. I then just pick random sites on the internet and point target1.elitehackingcontest.org.
I then advertise the crap out of it and let hilarity ensue.
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Alice In Wonderland
Saw “Alice In Wonderland”. Meh. Glad I didn’t pay to see it in sphincter-puckering IMAX 3D. The casting was good, the acting was good… I just felt that it wasn’t engaging.