A hash collision vulnerability exists in a number of frameworks, including PHP, Ruby, and ASP.NET. Microsoft has released a patch to fix ASP.NET. Rafael Rivera criticizes the relatively short amount of time before full disclosure and links to a cutesy Microsoft video on the topic. My problem with the video is that, although some companies…
Final Score: U-S-A! 1, USSR 0
20 years of Winning.
EPD: Duels And Ordeals
There are two chapters remaining in Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. This one is a relatively long chapter, and pertains to duels and ordeals. Mackay, naturally, is opposed to dueling as a way of solving problems, considering it something animals do but civilized people don't. A while back, I brought up Pete…
More On Government Motors
So the Cruze is not selling that well anymore. Good thing we weren't coerced into financing a flop of a company. Oh, wait...
Top 10 Games I’ve Played for the First Time in 2011
Honorable mentions: Heavy Rain, God of War III, Uncharted 2, Magic: the Gathering: Duels of the Planeswalkers (PS 3), Hearts of Iron: Semper Fi and For the Motherland (PC) 10. Mass Effect (PC) If I'd played this more -- I got it as a birthday gift along with Mass Effect 2 -- it would probably…
The Volt: Low-Wattage
An analysis is out stating that the Chevy Volt costs taxpayers a quarter million dollars per vehicle sold thus far. That number is a little misleading in that they're amortizing one-time expenditures, so it would go down over time as more vehicles are sold. But then again, considering that the total number sold is well under…
The secret plan of the GOP: stop students from voting?
From the NY Times (got it from a Facebook link). This is one of the stupidest articles I've ever read. First of all, they make it sound like getting a state issued ID is impossible. It isn't! Hell, I had a passport before I had a driver's license. Second, they've made one of the dumbest…
Thoughts On The State Of The Republican Primary Thus Far
My proviso here is that there haven't actually been any primaries yet, and given how up-and-down this thing has been, pretty much anything I say will get overruled by events. The news that Rick Perry and Newt Gingrich failed to get enough votes to get on the Virginia ballot was shocking enough to cause me…
Security Notes, Part 1
Who knows what you have downloaded? The Internet knows. This tracks Bit Torrent downloads by IP address, so it's not perfect, but it does give you an idea of just how public your activities online are. Security Theater now provides free sno-cones. Good news: another CA has been compromised. But don't worry: nothing bad came…
Curmudgeonly Notes
While everybody else is off swapping gifts, here are some notes of varying degrees of curmudgeonliness: If one graph could scream out "We are doomed!" it would probably be this one. Entitlements are a structural problem, and the main problem is just how broad-based the most dangerous ones are. Neither Republicans nor Democrats are going…
36 Chambers - The Legendary Journeys: Execution to the max! 