Ah, the UK
Where it's illegal to do anything and everything, and at the same time illegal to do nothing.
Posts by Vin
7 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Oct 2008
Wi-Fi Beeb viewing may break law
Exploding mobile phone kills Chinese man
Daft list names Firefox, Adobe and VMWare as top threats
Friday 12th December 2008 20:12 GMT
Speaking of top threats
I've recently published a paper concluding a years worth of security research that lists the top threats we discovered. The paper is not available on the internet, because we believe that that would defeat the purpose of the paper. However, I can tell you the top 5 threats we discovered, which will make it apparent to you why we did not release it.
1) The internet - Source of 100% of internet transmitted viruses
2) The internet - Number one source of email spam
3) The internet - 100% of DDoS attacks on website occur on the internet
4) The internet - We have discovered indisputable proof that all internet related crime occurs on the internet.
5) The Register - Makes people like you have to read lists like mine.
MS Ireland blocks redirection 'hack' - eventually
Thursday 11th December 2008 09:41 GMT 
One way or another...
...this looks bad for Redmond.
Either the redirect was being done on IIS, and fingers get pointed at them for having crap for security, or it was being done on Apache, and fingers get pointed at them for not trusting their own software.
And now that I've typed that, let's take a look!
http://microsoft.ie/asdfasdfj.html tells us that they're running IIS. Awww...
Paris, because she's had more than just egg on her face.
Indian court urged to 'ban Google Earth'
Wednesday 10th December 2008 23:13 GMT 
We still haven't gone far enough
Since the terrorists were alive, we need to ban being alive. It's the only way we can ensure the safety of our... Well, I can't say future at this point, can I?
It'll still stop those terrorists from exploiting being alive! >:[
Mine's the one with the cyanide-based terrorism prevention capsules.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
