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64-bit OllyDbg is here ...almost.

Posted by fejr on Thursday October 24, 2013 @07:35AM
from the ollydbg.de dept.

http://www.ollydbg.de/odbg64.html

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SSL explained

Posted by fejr on Wednesday October 23, 2013 @02:39PM
from the resources.infosecinstitute.com dept.

http://resources.infosecinstitute.com/ssl-unleashed/

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Can I Be Trusted?

Posted by fejr on Wednesday October 23, 2013 @05:51AM
from the schneier.com dept.

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/10/can_i_be_truste.html

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Defending Against Crypto Backdoors

Posted by fejr on Tuesday October 22, 2013 @09:32AM
from the schneier.com dept.

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/10/defending_again_1.html

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The Trajectories of Government and Corporate Surveillance

Posted by fejr on Monday October 21, 2013 @11:25AM
from the schneier.com dept.

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/10/the_trajectorie.html

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NSA 'taped millions of French calls'; France summons the US ambassador in Paris.

Posted by fejr on Monday October 21, 2013 @04:46AM
from the lemonde.fr dept.

http://www.lemonde.fr/technologies/article/2013/10/21/comment-la-nsa-espionne-la-france_3499758_651865.html

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Karen Sandler on Software Freedom

Posted by fejr on Friday October 11, 2013 @12:49PM
from the tuxradar.com dept.

http://www.tuxradar.com/content/karen-sandler-full-interview

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Pinczakko's Guide to AMI BIOS Reverse Engineering

Posted by fejr on Friday October 11, 2013 @04:08AM
from the sites.google.com dept.

https://sites.google.com/site/pinczakko/pinczakko-s-guide-to-ami-bios-reverse-engineering-1

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Scientists who share data publicly receive more citations

Posted by fejr on Friday October 04, 2013 @09:41AM
from the phys.org dept.

http://phys.org/news/2013-10-scientists-publicly-citations.html

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Gen. Michael Hayden: I'd also thought of nominating Mr. Snowden [for a hit list]

Posted by fejr on Thursday October 03, 2013 @03:02PM
from the arstechnica.com dept.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/10/ex-nsa-chief-jokes-about-hunting-down-snowden-advocates-targeted-killings/

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PANDA: a Platform for Architecture-Neutral Dynamic Analysis

Posted by fejr on Monday September 30, 2013 @03:19PM
from the moyix.blogspot.com dept.

http://moyix.blogspot.com/2013/09/announcing-panda-platform-for.html

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Claudia Trevisan: I was handcuffed and arrested at Yale Law School

Posted by fejr on Sunday September 29, 2013 @12:52PM
from the blogs.estadao.com.br dept.

http://blogs.estadao.com.br/claudia-trevisan/how-i-was-handcuffed-and-arrested-at-yale-law-school/

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Sen. Ron Wyden: NSA 'repeatedly deceived the American people'

Posted by fejr on Friday September 27, 2013 @08:52AM
from the theguardian.com dept.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/27/ron-wyden-nsa-systematically-deceived

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The NSA is looking for a Civil Liberties & Privacy Officer.

Posted by fejr on Monday September 23, 2013 @03:41PM
from the schneier.com dept.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/09/nsa_job_opening.html

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Metadata Equals Surveillance

Posted by fejr on Monday September 23, 2013 @08:34AM
from the schneier.com dept.

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/09/metadata_equals.html

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What Clayton Christensen got wrong

Posted by fejr on Sunday September 22, 2013 @04:35PM
from the stratechery.com dept.

http://stratechery.com/2013/clayton-christensen-got-wrong/

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More Thoughts on CPU backdoors (2009)

Posted by fejr on Sunday September 22, 2013 @11:42AM
from the theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com dept.

http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2009/06/more-thoughts-on-cpu-backdoors.html

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Inside the iPhone 5S - Chipworks

Posted by fejr on Friday September 20, 2013 @02:37PM
from the chipworks.com dept.

http://www.chipworks.com/en/technical-competitive-analysis/resources/blog/inside-the-iphone-5s/

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The Curious Tale of Dual_EC_DRBG

Posted by fejr on Wednesday September 18, 2013 @09:11PM
from the blog.cryptographyengineering.com dept.

http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2013/09/the-many-flaws-of-dualecdrbg.html

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How old memories fade away

Posted by fejr on Wednesday September 18, 2013 @04:40PM
from the mit.edu dept.

http://www.mit.edu/newsoffice/2013/how-old-memories-fade-away-0918.html

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Linus Torvalds worries about how Linux will handle end of Moore's Law

Posted by fejr on Wednesday September 18, 2013 @02:51PM
from the arstechnica.com dept.

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/09/linus-torvalds-worries-about-how-linux-will-handle-the-end-of-moores-law/

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California school district hires online monitoring firm to watch 13,000 students

Posted by fejr on Monday September 16, 2013 @07:16PM
from the arstechnica.com dept.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/09/california-school-district-hires-online-monitoring-firm-to-watch-13000-students/

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Surreptitiously Tampering with Computer Chips

Posted by fejr on Monday September 16, 2013 @03:56PM
from the schneier.com dept.

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/09/surreptitiously.html

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There are two Twitters; Only one is worth investing in.

Posted by fejr on Monday September 16, 2013 @03:55PM
from the stratechery.com dept.

http://stratechery.com/2013/might-twitter-maximize-potential/

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Fatal crypto flaw in some government-certified smartcards makes forgery a snap

Posted by fejr on Monday September 16, 2013 @11:55AM
from the arstechnica.com dept.

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/09/fatal-crypto-flaw-in-some-government-certified-smartcards-makes-forgery-a-snap/

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Reforming the NSA

Posted by fejr on Monday September 16, 2013 @08:08AM
from the schneier.com dept.

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/09/reforming_the_n.html

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Qcloud

Posted by fejr on Saturday September 14, 2013 @08:10AM
from the cnotmz.appspot.com dept.

http://cnotmz.appspot.com/

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Re:NIST "strongly" suggests dropping its own encryption standard on Friday September 13, 2013 @06:19PM (#6383552)

It does.

> The NIST standard describes what is known as an "elliptic curve-based deterministic random bit generator."

And also links in the first paragraph to: http://www.propublica.org/documents/item/785571-itlbul2013-0...

NIST "strongly" suggests dropping its own encryption standard

Posted by fejr on Friday September 13, 2013 @04:22PM
from the arstechnica.com dept.

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/09/government-standards-agency-strongly-suggests-dropping-its-own-encryption-standard/

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Re:New NSA Leak Shows MITM Attacks Against Major Internet Services on Friday September 13, 2013 @01:57PM (#6381997)

Parent is refering to public key pinning. Chrome for instance has been doing it the last couple years [1].

Also see Moxie's comment in this very thread. [2]

[1] https://www.imperialviolet.org/2011/05/04/pinning.html

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6381673