There are a number of utilities that log packets for forensic analysis. Every person that deals with the Internet in a serious fashion has used them at one point or another. I've used packetlogs generated by tcpdump to do things as trivial as respond to fraudulent abuse reports against a virtual machine that I use a chat client from. Needless to ( Read more... )

A lot of people asked me about prisoners to support. Barrett and Hammond are well taken care of, I know Hammond says he's full up on books. There are a lot of prisoners out there whose cases are out of the media and are long forgotten. Here's a list of political prisoners that aren't getting a lot of support and have far-off release dates (or are ( Read more... )

This week we learned about two events of data ransom. One is in the distant (by the Internet news cycle's terms) past, and the other is quite recent. In 2007, a group of people got ahold of the private key that Nokia used to sign smartphone software, including operating system updates. Once you get ahold of the signing keys like this, it becomes ( Read more... )

I blog mostly over at my own domain now, weev.net. As an aside, my continued work is supported by readers like you ( Read more... )

I went to prison for free speech and the right to compute. I value these rights very highly. Lately there has been a huge debate over whether selling software exploits should be somehow regulated with criminal penalties. Software exploit ethics has been a political issue I have commented on for well over a decade. I published an op-ed in Wired ( Read more... )

There is a concerted effort amongst others to get me to take myself more seriously than I should. Always these people are well-meaning friends who say that they want me and my ideas to be taken seriously. Others say they want to introduce me to big money that will be more receptive to me, if only certain aspects of my character and personality can ( Read more... )

To the Honorable Susan D. Wigenton, US Attorney Paul J. Fishman, Assistant US Attorney Zach Intrater, and FBI Special Agent Christian Schorle ( Read more... )

A couple weeks ago I was at the flat of some new friends ( Tomato, the vocals/drums for Sound of Urchin, and the RT network's The Resident) and I was introduced to an artist named Klaus Nomi. I love countertenor vocals, have seen Andreas Scholl and Phillippe Jaroussky live multiple times and think it is a tragedy that this style of male vocals does ( Read more... )

Look at the devices you have available to you and ask yourself which basic technological advancements they are built upon. Every year we get a better piece of plastic, metal and glass from China to carry around. The software that runs on this ever-improving piece of plastic is certainly better than last year's software. Something is getting better ( Read more... )

So I've repeatedly avoided making statements regarding my family, but my mother keeps commenting about me to the media. I suppose I should discuss quickly the nature and character of her comments ( Read more... )