While it's important to respect your children's privacy, understanding what your teenager's online slang means and how to decipher it is important as you help guide their online experience. While it has many nicknames, information-age slang is commonly referred to as leetspeek, or leet for short. (...)

arg, so I inherited this perl (ugh) program, trying to modify it to handle some date time parsing stuff. I spent way too much time figuring out what the hell was wrong with this:

use DateTime ( Read more... )

A thought-provoking paper concerning some of the most relevant problems in computer science...!

(from Daily Dave)

holy crap, 44 new security bugs (!!) in "Unbreakable"1 Oracle!

1Background for those who don't want to read the PDF: So Oracle had this horribly ill-advised marketing campaign when Oracle 9ish came out, claiming a new focus on security, blah blah, with the keyword 'Unbreakable' stamped over everything, which -- as common sense dictates -- for ( Read more... )

Argh, so the frustrating part of making this whole attack database thing isn't the actual work (though the HTML/PHP is tedious!), but the classification stuff. I keep reconsidering the classification scheme, and recoiling at my own work because I suspect I've done it wrong somehow, and I could do it better. I want to make it as useful as possible ( Read more... )

I just finished reading the first part of Gregory Chaitin book (collection of lecture notes?) on "The Limits of Mathematics." It's really quite interesting, and the concepts are fairly easy to follow, even for a non-mathematician, I think. The section I read deals with a lot of cool ideas, especially if you've never seen them before ( Read more... )

haha, so recently I have taken a stab at web development. I mean, I haven't made web page since like 1999. I wish I were really joking about that. I picked up PHP and have cobbled together my poor SQL skills to finally begin that goddamn packet log database. One of those things I really wanted someone else to write so I didn't have to learn ( Read more... )

I've been slowly but surely reversing the entirety of Netsky.D. I'm not really sure why, anymore. It'd be amusing to release the reversed code under GPL or something ( Read more... )

I've been doing some heavy reading into reverse engineering lately, mostly because it will help me advance career-wise in this company (also got an offer doing more IDS researchy-stuff somewhere else, but I'll consider that later, I think), and well, because it's interesting. There's a surprising lack of good material on reverse engineering, as I ( Read more... )

This is a good intro-to-PaX article from Linux Magazine UK. I think part of the reason I liked it so much was because OpenBSD people freaked out about it for pretty much no reason at all.

OS zealots are totally annoying. I'm not an OpenBSD user, so I try to keep an open mind, but the fact that the project is lead by a hyper-sensitive rather ( Read more... )