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Re: Why I Hate Mailing Lists

Marcin — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 02:47:05 -0000

Yeah, it's already out. It's called a forum or message board ;)

Re: Why Atheists Should Consider Discussing Religion With Their Moderately Religious Friends

Marcin — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 02:56:08 -0000

"You care for your friends, and you don’t want to push your views on them, but at the same time you don’t want them to believe in unfounded concepts such as life after death, castles in the sky, virgin birth, chupacabras, or teapots orbiting Mars."

I don't get it, why can't I believe in heaven and hell or any of the claims made by Christianity? (I am Roman Catholic btw, but sometimes find myself questioning religion and church itself as well..) But don't tell me there are no facts supporting my reasoning and that because of facts, I shouldn't believe. As far as I'm concerned, you have no facts other than the fact you cannot prove supernatural beings.

Not all of us Roman Catholics believe entirely in creationism, but evolution, though you still gotta wonder how the hell the big bang even came from.. Not all of us believe a lot of things in the Bible, but many of us do believe in Jesus Christ (who was a real man).

-sigh, I will probably be flamed for my own beliefs. Try posting such an opinion on digg and you have a bunch of atheists dig you down just because they don't agree with you. You don't believe in God, I do... what's the problem? I can't compare that story of "Karen and Joe" to my faith; to me, it is something much deeper.

Re: Christoper Hitchens Interview: New Respect For Lou Dobbs

Marcin — Mon, 07 May 2007 16:56:23 -0000

To me, Lou Dobbs always had respect. This interview is nothing compared to so many of his other interviews on various topics including the war in Iraq, social security, healthcare, our economy, outsourcing/offshoring, employment, etc... In my opinion, he is the most intelligent figure in our media today and he really does "get it." I wish he'd run for president already.

Re: Reddit Has A “Network Security” Section?

Marcin — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 20:20:10 -0000

Yah, be sure to add my site :P

I actually did the same thing today with slashdot, digg and redditt..

http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=1gf9...

truncates posts after 10 days old, does a filter on slashdot developers, it, linux, hardware in the description and comments for security

Re: Was This Necessary?

Marcin — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 08:03:15 -0000

Yes. I would not be more honored!

Re: CSS Test Post

Marcin — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 20:39:13 -0000

In your .codeblock style, the text can traverse out of the background block by at least 4 characters. 'eq 0' will actually reach * UNIX's find Command.

This has been tested on Firefox 2.0.0.6 on Ubuntu 7.04 running NoScript

Re: Web Design: The Most Important Usability Change You Haven’t Made Yet

Marcin — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 20:44:08 -0000

Is it me, or is Verdana 10px font the most popular, easiest to read font?

Re: Web Design: The Most Important Usability Change You Haven’t Made Yet

Marcin — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:07:48 -0000

yeah, you're right.. it's 12 not 10. I was in the wrong units

Re: Someone Just Ganked My Lsof Article

Marcin — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 13:42:10 -0000

I know how you feel man.. My blog (and many others I've noticed) is constantly being ripped of content and hosted on other sites.

Wish there was some way to stop it. :shrug:

Re: Penetration Testing is Easy — Too Easy

Marcin — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 04:57:03 -0000

I'm with kuza on this, what's your point? If what you're saying is 99% of the security community is not as l33t as they say they are, okay... but it's like that all over, in every industry.

We're all just a bunch of button pushers and keypad mashers in the end.

Re: This is How You Pronounce Ubuntu

Marcin — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 20:46:23 -0000

I give up on Digg. I don't know how this made it to the front page...

Re: What Does OS X Say When You Ask it to Pronounce Itself? [Video]

Marcin — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:43:23 -0000

Things kinda slow for you these past couple days Daniel? :P

Re: Dumping Intense Debate

Marcin — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 11:18:37 -0000

Finally dude... loading another script from another website isn't good, especially when it's your entire comment functionality. pfft.

Re: Take Me Off Your List!

Marcin — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 22:53:54 -0000

Thomas, you may think your group/blog is not influential at all... Regardless if you are or not, I enjoy reading your blog. What I like most is your attitude-bluntness-"no holding back" what you really think.

Re: zeroBay Exists: Will The Juice Be Worth The Squeeze?

Marcin — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 10:55:16 -0000

@JohnGruberIsARobot:

You can't get any better than this ;) /sarcasm

Q: What guarantees will you give me about the reliability of the security researches listed on the market place?
A: Full guarantee. Every piece of security research is carefully analyzed and replicated in our own laboratories and eventually implemented with our own complementary research material before being placed on the market place.

Re: Thoughts on Ten Years of qmail Security

Marcin — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 18:20:25 -0000

I love qmail. Now if only my web host would let me use it. Guess that I'm gonna have to get my own box sooner rather than later...

Funny how qmail used the concept of developing on a secure platform/framework then. Now, everyone recommends doing so for the same reasons. Why reinvent the wheel and at the same, reintroduce problems that allow developers to make the same mistakes over and over again.

Re: The Insidious Insider Threat

Marcin — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 11:44:23 -0000

I agree with your statement, "I think one reason why we focus (maybe overfocus) in the external threat is that it can’t be controlled. When an employee does something bad, it doesn’t have to become a major media event. You can handle things civilly. And by that I mean civil law."

I believe the only companies that should take the insider threat issue more seriously and actively are those in the defense industry. This doesn't mean only those companies should think about it, because economic espionage is a real thing and it does happen... but not to the extent and criticality to those attacks launched against defense companies. Their products are able to kill people, and the insider threat is not something I want to leave to be decided in civil courts.

Re: Retsaot is Toaster, Reversed: Quick ‘n Dirty Firmware Reversing

Marcin — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:31:53 -0000

The latest version of blackbag I have is at http://www.sockpuppet.org/blackbag-0.9.tgz

Eric, are you suggesting a 1.0 release?

Re: Retsaot is Toaster, Reversed: Quick ‘n Dirty Firmware Reversing

Marcin — Thu, 01 May 2008 14:44:45 -0000

Btw, I ran into compilation problems on Linux before:

tsec.c: In function ‘main’:
tsec.c:44: error: too few arguments to function ‘setpgid’
tsec.c:44: error: too many arguments to function ‘setpgrp’
make: *** [tsec.o] Error 1

So in tsec.c, you'll want to change line 44:

if(setpgrp(0, setpgid()) == -1) {

to:

if (setpgid(getpid(),0)) {

Re: Retsaot is Toaster, Reversed: Quick ‘n Dirty Firmware Reversing

Marcin — Thu, 01 May 2008 15:09:07 -0000

Why yes, I just noticed your post! Very cool.

Re: NYSec tomorrow, 6/17

Marcin — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:36:02 -0000

This was my frist NYSec, and definitely won't be my last. Already looking forward to the next one!

Re: In Which I Resolve A Titanic Semantic Conflict

Marcin — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 15:23:48 -0000

* Building secure systems is an engineering discipline.

Re: The Web Pest Poet

Marcin — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:49:09 -0000

Me me me! Now time to add me... subtlety to mr mogull. :)

Re: In Which I Resolve A Titanic Semantic Conflict

Marcin — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:55:26 -0000

@Dan, I beg to differ. Software can and does kill people. Just read Geekonomics by David Rice. Anton did, and it changed his life!

Re: In Which I Resolve A Titanic Semantic Conflict

Marcin — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:41:54 -0000

Bits that parse humans... sometimes do it badly ;)

Re: Hello! A self introduction by Chris Rohlf

Marcin — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:28:42 -0000

See you at the next NYSec?

Re: Patch Your (non-DJBDNS) Server Now. Dan Was Right. I Was Wrong.

Marcin — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:34:30 -0000

After this all blows over, I'd be interested to see the numbers for how many have already applied the patch versus how many haven't, and again after Dan's talk at Black Hat.

Asking people to accept Dan's (and Tom and Dino's) words on blind faith is asking a lot. I think the position a lot of people are taking is "details first, patch later" as opposed to the "patch first, ask questions later" cowboy mentality.

Re: NYSec tomorrow, 6/17

Marcin — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:09:19 -0000

Dave, Jeremy: Anyone up for an impromptu NYSec given that HOPE is tomorrow??

Re: Regarding The Post On Chargen Earlier Today

Marcin — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:54:41 -0000

I'd like to thank ecopeland for leaking the details and confirming Halvar's hypothesis. I'd like to thank Halvar even more for his perseverance and not letting anyone stop him from speculating as to what the vulnerability could possibly be.

Halvar, you rock. Matasano, thanks for delivering.

Re: Why I Hate Mailing Lists

Marcin — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 02:47:05 -0000

Yeah, it's already out. It's called a forum or message board ;)

Re: Why Atheists Should Consider Discussing Religion With Their Moderately Religious Friends

Marcin — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 02:56:08 -0000

Re: Christoper Hitchens Interview: New Respect For Lou Dobbs

Marcin — Mon, 07 May 2007 16:56:23 -0000

Re: Reddit Has A “Network Security” Section?

Marcin — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 20:20:10 -0000

Re: Was This Necessary?

Marcin — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 08:03:15 -0000

Yes. I would not be more honored!

Re: CSS Test Post

Marcin — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 20:39:13 -0000

Re: Web Design: The Most Important Usability Change You Haven’t Made Yet

Marcin — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 20:44:08 -0000

Is it me, or is Verdana 10px font the most popular, easiest to read font?

Re: Web Design: The Most Important Usability Change You Haven’t Made Yet

Marcin — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:07:48 -0000

yeah, you're right.. it's 12 not 10. I was in the wrong units

Re: Someone Just Ganked My Lsof Article

Marcin — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 13:42:10 -0000

I know how you feel man.. My blog (and many others I've noticed) is constantly being ripped of content and hosted on other sites.

Wish there was some way to stop it. :shrug:

Re: Penetration Testing is Easy — Too Easy

Marcin — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 04:57:03 -0000

I'm with kuza on this, what's your point? If what you're saying is 99% of the security community is not as l33t as they say they are, okay... but it's like that all over, in every industry.

We're all just a bunch of button pushers and keypad mashers in the end.

Re: This is How You Pronounce Ubuntu

Marcin — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 20:46:23 -0000

I give up on Digg. I don't know how this made it to the front page...

Re: What Does OS X Say When You Ask it to Pronounce Itself? [Video]

Marcin — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:43:23 -0000

Things kinda slow for you these past couple days Daniel? :P

Re: Dumping Intense Debate

Marcin — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 11:18:37 -0000

Finally dude... loading another script from another website isn't good, especially when it's your entire comment functionality. pfft.