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The Electronic Voting Farce Continues

Wednesday, November 8, 2006

With the midterm elections in the US in full swing, all eyes (well… some eyes) are once again on the shambles of e-voting as it buckles and crashes – as expected. RTE mentions “problems with electronic voting machines in a number of states, including Ohio, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania and Florida”. I expect we’ll be [...]

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Spam Victims

Wednesday, August 16, 2006

I was examining the junk mails that made it through the spam filter yesterday, wondering about the lengths that spammers have to go to in order to dodge Spam Assassin, and how many people actually respond to advertisements for V!agr$Aa. One of the more common characteristics of spam emails is a variety of colours in [...]

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Scapy for Windows

Sunday, June 18, 2006

I spent many hours this week trying to port the python-based network tool Scapy to Windows. After a number of slow downloads, red herrings, and lot of messing around, I finally had the end in sight. Thats when some guy posted this with everything I needed. Thanks Andrew – nice one, just wish you had [...]

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A Warning on Internet Cafes

Tuesday, April 25, 2006

I just read a good post on IrishEyes about the dangers of banking in Internet Cafes. With the recent influx of immigrants, netcafes are more popular than ever, and are springing up all over the place, largely in Cork. I wouldn’t be surprised to learn if our immigrant community does more of their banking online [...]

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Breezy Critical Security Threat

Monday, March 13, 2006

With Breezy running on three of my systems here, I was a bit surprised to find this post on the Ubuntu security forum; root password in plain text in a file that is readable by all users, on a standard installation. I am amazed that nobody has spotted this before – surely there has been [...]

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