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Archive for June, 2006
Falling Down
My Monday morning was going as usual – out the door around 6:20AM and driving to Vienna metro. I arrive around 6:50 and discover there are lots of delays on the orange line due to the flooding of various stations caused by the continued rainfall. I decide to just board the existing train on the [...]
Cryptographic Multipart Computations
” In cryptography, secure multiparty computation is a problem that was initially suggested by Andrew C. Yao in a 1982 paper. In that publication, the millionaire problem was introduced: Alice and Bob are two millionaires who want to find out which is richer without revealing the precise amount of their wealth. Yao proposed a solution [...]
Non-pop-kid-rock.
“Examples of other indie rockers-turned-kindie rockers abound: Lisa Mathews of Milkshake, a band that recently toured with Zanes on Jamarama Live, a sort of Lollapalooza for kids, used to be in a band called Love Riot, who once played Lilith Fair. “A lot of us, like Dan Zanes and They Might Be Giants, we’ve had [...]
Who killed Kenny?
” The self-described “ignorant-ass hillbilly†dispensed with etiquette the day his brother’s body arrived at a California morgue. The government insisted Kenneth “Kenny†Trentadue committed suicide in federal prison. But evidence suggesting otherwise vanished, while much of that supporting the government’s theory was jiggered or plucked from thin air. In trying to unravel the mystery, [...]
Pitchfork top 100 music videos
If you aren’t already watching the Pitchfork media list, you’re missing out. Their top albums list introduced me to a large amount of new and seriously nice music. Looks like they’ve done it again with their Top 100 Awesome Music Videos list. My favorite, The Avalanches – Frontier Psychiatrist.
SecTools
“Top 100 Network Security Tools After the tremendously successful 2000 and 2003 security tools surveys, Insecure.Org is delighted to release this 2006 survey. I (Fyodor) asked users from the nmap-hackers mailing list to share their favorite tools, and 3,243 people responded. This allowed me to expand the list to 100 tools, and even subdivide them [...]
Pegasus High Altitude Balloon project
Nice homebrew project – they launch a camera, gps, phone, and small embedded linux device on a high altitude ballon. The story, charts, and pictures are on the website. ” Once the balloon was released I received two sms messages – one at about 350m and then another at 650m and then silence for 2 [...]
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