Posts by Paul 172 95 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Jun 2009
"That's funny thinking that using the command line makes you special. Well guess what, it may very well be that you are using some of my code when you are in that command line. I've also worked on the kernal and drivers for two of the biggest commercial Unix vendors so you'll be using some of my code there as well.
So I guess that makes me a bigger Unix nerd than you"
...Wow an AC kernel dev who can't spell kernel, legit.
I absolutely agree with you there.
In fact this is the reason I have "returned" my Applecare on my recent laptop purchase. £200-odd quid just to have a subset of my already legal rights, oh and telephone os x support...... herm...
i bought it because i thought it included accidental damage but it turns out thats only for iphones....
"While it lacks the immediate thump-in-the-back of the 2.0 litre turbo petrol engines"
...thump-in-the-back from a FWD car...?
"With 138bhp on tap the 0-60 sprint takes a somewhat leisurely 9.3 seconds but the top speed is an autobahn-friendly 129mph."
...clearly you don't go on autobahns...
"Would it be too much to hope that the various government-related orgs that have been embarassed by LulzSec will now sit back and work out why they were so vulnerable and beef up their BLA BLA BLA BLA...."
you just dont get it do you? maybe the bbc site might be more your level... hiring a botnet for $50 and ddos'ing a public information page of an organisation isnt hacking that organisation...
i just asked a mate what lulsec have actualy done that wasnt a DDoS.... apparently some password hashes from poorly-configured webservers and a list of ATM's and their lat/longs...
Now the ATM one sounds interesting (bank attacks?) until you ask yourself where this could of come from... It'd be a fairly simple "hack" to take apart a TomTom now wouldn't it...
> "he de-compiled the binary back into source code"
> That's not technically possible, nor will it ever be.
...you go on to talk about dissassemblers...
Er, what?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decompiler
These tools/techniques have been around for a long time and are suprisingly effective with some less strippy languages such as java. Of course, getting the original source code back is nigh on impossible (think, breaking an egg and then trying to put it back together) but this doesnt mean you cannot get effective code that works in the same way - modelling the broken pieces of said egg and producing your own model that whilst similar in function and design is not the original...
Skype has had some pretty good protections built into the code from what i hear, to stop exactly this kind of analysis. So well done. And, its about time :)
To all who make the dumb comments like "but its okay for MP's to steal money is it?!" ... and so on, well... no, of course it isnt. scumbags living off the state because theyre too lazy is bad and MP's who misrepresent their expenses, thats also bad.
Just thought i would clear that one up.
"thirty or forty people out for interviews for *every* job vacancy, the odds of them actually getting work are pretty bloody slim."
interview much?? any decent job is going to have at Least 40 applicants. stop with the EXCUSES. anyway, if you do 40 interviews you can expect to bag one job, on average... so do ten a week and within a month you have a job ??
"He is a benefits claimant and I work."
If unemployment benefit - tell him it's about time he got a job - you go to work to pay for him not to.
--how did this post get 11 downvotes ???? Why shouldn't he go and get a job ? I might have totally misread the readership of this site.... Are we not all hard-working IT professionals ? Are there 11 layabouts to every 2 workers ? How do you pay for your internet connections ? Just wonderin.....
"How many countless lost billions, if not trillions of dollars could be traced back to the Sony corporation, and the consulting firm they used to deploy root kit technology"
- it's a bit early to be smoking what i think you must be smoking.... Trillions "traced back" to the Sony corporation, indeed.... Plz explain or GTFO
"Apple could do likewise, paying for punters' calls through a cut from every app, e-book, song or video they and others download."
are you soft in the head ? thats nonsense, could you imagine that even if that were feasable (its not, the amount of data the kindles use is tiny compared to a normally used phone) that apple would do it (that kind, generous, price-competitive company, apple.....)
c'moff it, must try harder
given the fact that the voicemail systems hardly ever are set to do intruder lockout, it would be a fairly simple excercise to brute-force the PIN. For example say you can try 3 PINS per minute as a low estimate, you have a keyspace of 10,000 which means that you can expect to crack any PIN in 55.5 Hours at a maximum or crack 50% of pins in half that time, etc.
Not particularly difficult to do given the nCorrect response can be checked for using some waveform matching routine, making this an almost entirely automated hack once initiated.
Cracking WEP without reinjecting packets will take you weeks on a network with "normal" levels of traffic, VS 15 mins if you can inject packets. Like I said its about being being feasable. Sure without injecting packets you can collect IV's at a slow slow rate and get enough to crack using PTW in a reasonable time but not in fact in the amount of time a mobile battery lasts for ;)
Other guy who can crack WEP on his Desire ? Fantastic news, I'm off to Google that, any links or sources for me to go to ?
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