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Hacked! Part 3 – Teaser

12 January, 2009

I left off with my server almost completely back up, but not yet Apache. I’ve had to make sure the web apps off the internet weren’t full of security holes before allowing access to them again. Though this is my third post 4 days later – in real time it’s been less than 24 hours …

Hacked! Part 2 – Open source hacking

11 January, 2009

First things first – my server had to be brought back up. But bringing it back up was not a matter as simple as reinstalling Slackware and plopping the home directories back in. So the first thing that needed to be done was to figure out how the server’s been compromised. The quickest way to …

Hacked! Part 1 – The Surprise

10 January, 2009

On thursday evening I had a couple of hours to spare, so I’ve SSHed to my server (yours truly littlesvr.ca) to get the Apache logs from the last couple of months. I do this now and then because I like seing the ammount of traffic going up every month. But this time it was not …

Doing worthwhile things is hard

5 January, 2009

Sometimes I think the world would be a much better place if everyone just accepted that I’m smarter then them and did what I said. This of course is not the case, and I when I take some time to think about it – it’s good, I have no desire to be a puppet master …

ISO Master has been cracked

9 December, 2008

For the last wo days or so I’ve been suffering from bandwidth troubles. I throttled the children’s upload to 10K so it wasn’t that. Finally I’ve decided to watch the web server logs for a minute, and I’ve noticed a pattern: 63.226.153.189 – – [09/Dec/2008:17:48:05 -0500] “GET /isomaster/wp-content/themes/ISO_master/images/ss-started-vista.png HTTP/1.1” 200 26112 “http://scenereleases.info/category/applications” “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE …

Nice guys finish last

15 November, 2008

Whomever didn’t know that already? But knowing a fact without understanding the causes or implications can be pretty useless. So here is a summary of my wonderings of the last couple of weeks. For me to remember and you to enjoy. All of this year I’ve persistently worked on one thing and have signed up …

Lost in the sticks

12 October, 2008

It’s getting cold. In a few weeks it will be way too cold to ride my Vulcan 500, so I’m trying to make use of it as much as I can before I have to put it into storage for a half a year. Now it’s 2 AM and I just came back from a …

Open source projects can be full of it too

15 September, 2008

I work on the Canvas3D project, a Firefox extension. Actually I work on JavaScript that uses it, not the extension itself. So every now and then I need to download the thing, from addons.mozilla.org And it’s bloody annoying. The addon is classified as ‘experimental’, which I assumed means that it’s not really ready for general …

Why don’t people use version control?

24 July, 2008

Ever since I read the subversion manual I’ve been really impressed with version control, and with subversion especially. Like any other student in CS I’ve had my fair share of “Where is the latest version of my assignment? Crap, it’s on my desktop at home and it’s due in two hours”. And subversion got rid …

An open letter to Susan Kadis

26 June, 2008

This is a letter I mailed to Suzan Kadis. She’s the MP for Thornhill, Ontario – where I live. It’s an issue I feel strongly about. You should write to your MP about bill C61 also – if your MP thinks their constituents don’t care, they won’t care either. Verbatim copy follows. 26th June 2008 …