As the 2008 Beijing Olympics loom closer, the perceived threat of open international journalism on the Internet in the eyes of China increases dramatically. Who would have thought that the Chinese government would have been so open to a free accessibility to a unfiltered, unfettered Internet? Apparently the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the governing/planning body of the Olympic games, foolish as that may have been to surmise from the vague conditions put forth by the Chinese government in it’s bid to claim these Olympic games. Perhaps the IOC never heard of the infamous ‘Great Firewall of China’? Continue reading ‘Chinese Pervasive Censorship Culture’
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- POLL: US Presidential Candidates + Advance of Technology
- Installing JMagick on Mac OS X
- POLL: 2008’s Largest Security Upset, So Far
- RIAA Lobbies at DNC
- MBTA Put Profit Before Security
- anniversary: two years old
- Chinese Pervasive Censorship Culture
- Unintentional Betrayal or Faux Ignorance
- POLL: Dan Kaminsky’s DNS Poisoning Bug
- Proactive Action Needed in Ballistic Forensics
Worth Reading
- HTTP Verb Brute Forcing - I read a few interesting posts here and here regarding brute forcing HTTP verbs. The F5 post suggested that it is possible to thwart people who are looking for what options you support by giving a
- Tallying Twitter?s Application Security Best Practice Violations - If you were paying attention the last few days, you’ve probably read about the wave of attacks launched against the popular Twitter service. It started over the weekend, with a series of
- HNN Archive Posted - I don’t really know who actually owns the Hacker News Network anymore. I own the domain now but the original content was part of the sale of L0pht to @Stake which was then sold to Symantec. At
- No School Like The Old School - I really need to learn to leave DNS alone DNS TXT Record Parsing Bug in LibSPF2 A relatively common bug parsing TXT records delivered over DNS, dating at least back to 2002 in Sendmail 8.2.0 and
- ARM versus x86 - At Hack in the Box in Kuala Lumpur this year, I was interviewed by Sumner Lemon of IDG about various Mac and iPhone-related security topics. One of the topics was the relative security of ARM
- “Happiness” my new password for 2009 - Wired reports that the 18 year old hacker (age is not relevant but it always fun for the media to point out that some “hacker” is still in his teens) responsible for breaking into
- Penetration Testing: Dead But Not Really Dead. - Yah, late commentary. Sorry, been a little busy. Brian Chess kicked the hornet’s nest beautifully by declaring: Penetration Testing: Dead in 2009 with: “Death doesn’t mean
