Archive for October, 2006

HowTo: Turn Photoshop into X-ray Vision Machine, well partially anyway!

Sunday, October 22nd, 2006

Firstly I’d like to say this is still in development for me, I like to fiddle with images/code/etc etc and I thought this would be as interesting as my lie detector article. Ok, I am short of time today, however, I wasn’t short of time a little while earlier, when I put together some fascinating [...]

Amazing: Blind Teenager Kicks Ass at football and computer games, better than some

Sunday, October 22nd, 2006

How this can be, I can only speculate on, to be scientific about this would seem like a good idea at first (radar detection etc , etc), but truly, this is a question of something beyond normal science, where attitude and idealogy may mean everything.
“This video is about a blind teenager that has overome many [...]

HowTo: Spot A Geek

Saturday, October 21st, 2006

Native Beard Installation, frequently updated, but never uninstalled.
Native Petruding pony tail, with cat5 cable tie.
Owns a broken 21″ Monitor bought second hand and damaged.
Generally goes on about how the “best way of doing something” needs to be used in situation x and y but clearly not z.
Has got through more keyboards than elton john.
Has an [...]

Concept Of the Month: X over SSH

Friday, October 20th, 2006

“SSH is one powerful tool. You can do just about everything under the sun using an SSH login to a remote computer. SSH works very well in low-bandwidth situations like dialup, or satlinks.
But wakeup, we’re no longer in the 80s - people want GUIs, let’s give them fancy-pants graphics, bouncing cursors and silly linux wizards. [...]

Why there should be a law against companies sending you your plaintext password in email without permission

Thursday, October 19th, 2006

An AZIO.ORG SPECIAL

Hello all,
This is a very simple outcry that has reached me in shock. Yesterday I applied to , not naming names or anything, Kontera Media Advertising, anyway..  to my surprise they had sent me a nice email the day after with my password in plaintext. Now for me thats not a problem, but [...]

About: Linear CryptAnalysis

Thursday, October 19th, 2006

The Technique
In cryptography, linear cryptanalysis is a form of cryptanalysis like we have spoken about before, apart from the hacker will be searching for a special case , an Affine Cipher , which is a more general substitution of the original cipher “key” but unlocks the data none the less.
Attacks have been developed for block [...]

About: The EFF DES Cracker Hardware

Thursday, October 19th, 2006

This stuff frankly can crack a DES key in a day. Respect that.

Introduction
In cryptography, the EFF DES cracker (nicknamed “Deep Crack“) is a machine built by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) to perform a brute force search of DES’s keyspace; that is, to decrypt an encrypted message by trying every possible key. The aim in [...]

What Is DES and 3DES?

Thursday, October 19th, 2006

DES
The Data Encryption Standard (also known as DES) is a cipher (method of encryption) selected as an official Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) for the U.S in 1976, and was subsequently used internationally as a widespread encryption method. The algorithm was initiall controverssial, with classied design elements, a relatively short key length annd suspicions about [...]

HowTo: Setup a Virtual Private Network (VPN)

Wednesday, October 18th, 2006

Small companies and homes are setup to use a dedicated Linux machine to act as a gateway , their bridge to the internet outside. Having a computer do this routing allows a lot more flexability than using a dedicated hardware router - for instance teh ability to join the network to another company or allow [...]

HowTo: Give away root to users (sudoers file)

Wednesday, October 18th, 2006

For many of us it would be nice to allow particular users (or friends) perhaps, if you manage to get out of your house, root privileges, without having to give them the root password. There are several tools available which solve the problem and the well used tool for this purpose is called sudo.
What Is [...]

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