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Dec 31 2008

HijackThis has been hijacked???

Category: New and Shiny,Ramblings,Web Goodies — Brett @ 12:37 am

Looks like someone forgot to pay the hosting bill. www.merijn.org Is now a ad FARM GODADDY PARK PAGE. Godaddy is going to make a bundle off this goofup!! But I wonder if merijn/TrendMicro just forgot to pay the bill or deleted it? What ever the case I hope it’s fixed soon as thousands of webpages link to that address andso does wikipedia.org . So I hope it is just a accident and not permanent.

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Mar 22 2008

Ubuntu 7.10 – Sun Java 1.6.0_05 Manual Installation

Category: Tech Tips,Web Goodies — Brett @ 9:29 pm

Disturbed by the lack of security updates to sun java in the Ubuntu repos. I went looking for a tutorial on how to manual install it. I found jmtdstoc a fine blog for any ubuntu user to read.

Alas, the blog has no commenting so I can’t share my experience with the blogger. (maybe I’ll try email)

My experience:
I needed to add a sim link to my ~/.mozilla/plugins directory (the ~ stands for my home directory) in order to get firefox 3.0-b4 to except the update.
sudo ln -s /opt/jre1.6/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so ~/.mozilla/plugins

other than that everything went smooth as ice. Thanks jmtdstoc

read tutorial

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Mar 04 2008

FireWire burning your security

Category: Meta News,New and Shiny,Web Goodies — Brett @ 4:40 pm

Adam Boileau a security reacher from New Zealand released source code for his Winlockpwn scripts. He first demoed the hacking physical-memory-DMA feature of Firewire at Ruxcon 2006 . Yes, thats right this is a feature of firewire that basically destroys the security feeling of any computer screensaver/lockscreen (Windows/Mac/ Linux) with a firewire port. This is more of a complex hack then say pressing the “escape” button in windows 98 but it gets the job done just as quick.

as adam puts it: