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packetlsson Software Defined Radio with HackRF

If you're looking for a good cheap kit to start out with, I suggest a cheap DVB-T card with a Realtek RTL2832U chip.

20 MHz - 2.2 GHz ~2.5 MS/s

Just google for RTLSDR.

You can get started for as little as 15-20 USD.

packetlsson Which is better, Adblock or Adblock Plus?

Yes.

Have a look at https://github.com/gorhill/httpswitchboard/wiki/HTTP-Switchb...

If you just want Adblocking functionality check out https://github.com/gorhill/ublock

Same author as HTTPSB.

packetlsson The talk about de-anonymizing Tor at the BlackHat conference has been removed

A Black Hat spokeswoman told Reuters that the talk had been canceled at the request of lawyers for Carnegie-Mellon University, where the speakers work as researchers. A CMU spokesman had no immediate comment.

Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/21/cybercrime-confere...

packetlsson Opt out of Google using you as an ad

   http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/base/users/<youtube-username>/favorites?alt=rss&v=2&orderby=published&client=ytapi-youtube-profile

packetlsson XKeyscore: NSA program collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet'

Not GER, it's GBR as in Great Britain

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKUSA_Agreement

packetlsson Site Outage: Passwords and Stream Keys Reset

They use Cloudflare. I doubt they would not respect Cache-Control.

packetlsson Exploitation of an old Rails vulnerability

Yes. Looks like a case of explotation of CVE-2013-0156.

packetlsson CloudFlare was down

Looks like they dropped off the internet:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMRaKtydILI

AS13335 = Cloudflare

packetlsson Physicists continue work to abolish time as fourth dimension of space

Yes. Let's have a discussion with crackpots.

Dr. Amrit Sorli is a researcher with the Osho Miasto, Institute for Meditation and Spiritual Growth, Siena, Italy. His research subjects are Unknown Vacuum Energies in Living Organisms and Direct Scientific Experience. Dr. Sorli is the author of several books and articles and currently gives courses on this theme.

packetlsson Physicists continue work to abolish time as fourth dimension of space

Sigh.

Article discusses a paper published in Physics Essays, a well-known crackpot journal.

packetlsson Critical Windows Vulnerability in TCP/IP Stack Could Allow Remote Code Execution

It's said to be a 32 bit refcounter bug, making it near impossible to predict the triggering packet over WAN.

packetlsson Why Is The Defense Department Snooping On My Phone?

Cell providers are known to break SIP on purpose on thier networks. Sometimes by inserting broken 'via' headers in the SIP packets.

The DOD IP is in the 28/8 range which is not in the global routing table. So the packets never reach DOD.

packetlsson The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy of Richard Stallman (2005)

You're wrong. I saw this in my Twitter timeline and thought it was interresting post despite its age. I wasn't aware RMS had railed on Jobs. I'm no Jobs fanboy.

packetlsson Pyrasite - Inject code into a running Python process

Have you seen 'hijack'?

https://github.com/ileitch/hijack

packetlsson Thorium Reactors

Google TechTalk about it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZR0UKxNPh8

packetlsson Gmail.com being MITM'd by Iran using this certificate

In order to mitigate attacks like this Firefox users can use: http://convergence.io/

packetlsson Possible Iranian goverment MITM attack on Gmail

It still works for me.

I made a screendump of it: http://i.imgur.com/udXeH.png

packetlsson Possible Iranian goverment MITM attack on Gmail

Someone on Twitter noticed it aswell: https://twitter.com/#!/hkashfi/status/107758824810758144

packetlsson Remote DoS for all versions of Apache in the wild.

CVE draft: http://marc.info/?l=apache-httpd-dev&m=131418828705324&#...

packetlsson Spotify API (libspotify, metadata API)

Now that Spotify is available in the US, this might be worth reposting.

Also stuff at: https://github.com/spotify

packetlsson Microsoft calls WebGL "harmful"

Relevant: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2662632

packetlsson Justin.tv down due to security issue

It seems to be back up again. Nasty bug they had though.

edit: Down again.

packetlsson WHO: Cell phone use can increase cancer risk

Even coffee is on that list.

packetlsson WHO: Cell phone use can increase cancer risk

Press release: http://com.iarc.fr/en/media-centre/pr/2011/pdfs/pr208_E.pdf (PDF)

Site very slow at the moment, mirror: http://www.scribd.com/doc/56731822/pr208-E

packetlsson Apple Q&A on gathering and use of location data (Apple Press Release)

So it was a bug after all.

This was one of the best responses out of a big corporation I've seen in ages. They even explain the function of it, not often that you see that.

packetlsson Android location service cache dumper.

I did. The title wasn't meant to mislead though. More of a tongue-in-cheek remark. Hence having "tracks" in quotes. Personally I think the whole "OMG APPLE TRACKS US!!" thing going on is overblown.

Looking at it now I guess it can be seen as misleading. It wasn't my intention though.

edit: changed the title ..

packetlsson Android location service cache dumper.

The unlimited size of Apple's cache is probably just a mistake. It makes no sense to store it on the device for tracking purposes. I assume they log this info when the device requests the info from Skyhook (or whatever location provider they have now) anyway.

packetlsson Will carriers destroy the Android vision?

And this article is from the same guy that predicted that the Kin would be a massive success.