Patrick Talmadge
From the monthly archives: December 2006
Earlier this month a hacker named muslix64 claimed to have cracked the AACS protection used in HD-DVD and Blu-Ray discs.Muslix64′s hack first surfaced on December 18 on YouTube, showing the decryption of an HD DVD movie, and promising more details soon.
Click the “play” button below to watch the clip:
Muslix64 posted a link [...]
I have read that you need to know security tools if you are going to break into the IT/ Network Security field. I have found this website http://sectools.org/. The site ranks and updates the top 100 network security tools. This site seems like a great place to see what tools are on the rise [...]
My Christmas was very good. We got to see all the family and enjoy some excellent food.
I all in all I did not get a lot of presents but I got what I wanted. I was looking to raise some money to pay for some IT security classes. Goal achieved. Class starts January [...]
Last night, Decemeber 22nd 2006, my Grandmother passed away. She went in peace. She left behind three daughters, and myself. She was a loving and caring wife, mother and grandmother. She will be greatly missed.
She will rejoin my Grandfather who passed away on October 29th 2006. Both my Grandmother and Grandfather were great people and I [...]
I found this great little website that has 55 tips for Gmail.
http://g04.com/misc/GmailTipsComplete.html
Check it out.
Thursday night (12/14/06) a big wind storm in the Seattle area caused power outages to nearly 1 million homes. Strong winds blew over a large tree in our neighbors yard that fell across power lines and blocked the road near our house. Our power was out nearly four whole days. Monday (12/18/06) our power came back on.
I read a recent post that detailed how to hack gift cards. The post shocked me how insecure the gift cards are. I hope the release of posts detailing how to hack gift cards will bring about a change in the security of new cards.
You go to a store that has gift cards [...]
Gmail is releasing a new feature that allows users to add up to 5 email accounts that Gmail can pull email from. The feature only works with POP3 email accounts but this means you can pull your work email or other personal email into Gmail. You can even create custom from accounts that will allow [...]
I have been playing with the TOR (the onion router) network for a while now. I like the anonymity that TOR provides but my problem was always portablity. The download you get from TOR you always had to install TOR, Vidalia, and Privoxy. Once those three are installed you have to set your proxy server [...]
In this level our background information is:
This time Network Security sam has saved the unencrypted level7 password in an obscurely named file saved in this very directory.In other unrelated news, Sam has set up a script that returns the output from the UNIX cal command. Here is the script:Enter the year you wish to [...]
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