Comment: Re:Anybody using Ada? (Score 1) 165
John Carmack mentioned Ada in the 2011 QuakeCon Q&A session: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00Q9-ftiPVQ#t=822s
Comment: Re:Anybody using Ada? (Score 2) 165
I have been using Ada for the last 5 years professionally and for my personal project. Most of them can be found here http://www.codelabs.ch/ or here http://git.codelabs.ch/.
Comment: Re:"Google wanted Android to be open source"?! (Score 1) 239
Google acquired Android Inc in 2005, so development had started before Sun opened up Java, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system).
Comment: Re:sounds great (Score 1) 375
The Guardian Project is an effort to increase the security of Android. A quote from the website:
The Guardian Project aims to create easy to use apps, open-source firmware MODs, and customized, commercial mobile phones that can be used and deployed around the world, by any person looking to protect their communications and personal data from unjust intrusion and monitoring.
https://guardianproject.info/
Here is a link to their February project update to give you an idea what they are working on: https://guardianproject.info/2012/02/09/february-2012-project-update/
Comment: Re:Whats this obsession for everything in Javascri (Score 1) 167
Yes, that also raises the question why you read/answer encryption worthy emails via webmail but I would argue it is still an improvement that your key does not need to leave your machine.
Comment: Re:Whats this obsession for everything in Javascri (Score 1) 167
Encrypting mails you send via webmail without having copy your keys on the server sounds like reasonable usecase.
Comment: Peter Guttman's take (Score 4, Informative) 194
He makes some interesting points on EFF's SSL Observatory mailinglist: https://mail1.eff.org/pipermail/observatory/2011-March/000138.html
Comment: Guardian Project (Score 1) 198
Hi,
check out the guardian project http://guardianproject.info/ which is aimed at mobile security for Android.
Comment: Recent Talk at 27C3 (Score 1) 162
Yesterday Tiffany Strauchs Rad who describes herself as a "hacker lawyer" gave a related talk at the 27th Chaos Communication Congress: https://events.ccc.de/congress/2010/Fahrplan/events/4236.en.html Recordings of this talk should be available soon.
At the end of her talk where a similar question was asked and her answer was more or less: "follow me on twitter (TiffanyRad)".
+ - Firewall Builder 4.0 released->
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kensan writes "Version 4.0 of the well-known opensource project Firewall Builder has been released. Firewall Builder is a firewall configuration management application. Quote from the website: 'This is a major upgrade. We have been testing the new version internally and in beta release for several months and we believe it is ready for production use. The new version comes with support for high availability firewall configurations, including heartbeat, vrrpd, keepalived, conntrackd on Linux, CARP and pfsync on OpenBSD and PIX failover configuration. It can generate configuration scripts to manage ip addresses, VLAN, bridge and bonding interfaces on the firewall. Drop-in support for OpenWRT firewall script is now available, as well as experimental integration with IPCOP firewall appliances. The GUI has supports undo/redo of unlimited depth and was generally streamlined and has many other improvements.'"
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Comment: Re:Bugs are an error in the... (Score 1) 596
You get what the subsystem maintainers merge into their trees and what Linus in turn merges into his tree so...
Comment: Re:Surprise Surprise. (Score 1) 224
Let's hope TPB have a better plan than to hand over their whites as ransom money...
Comment: Re:Linus kernel (Score 5, Interesting) 231
Yes, officially it's "Linus 2.6.29-rc4" see http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/2/8/129 ;)
Comment: Re:stupid stupid stupid (Score 5, Informative) 670
The original change was tracked in the debian Bugtracking system at:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=363516
The offending patch: http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pkg-openssl/openssl/trunk/rand/md_rand.c?rev=141&view=diff&r1=141&r2=140&p1=openssl/trunk/rand/md_rand.c&p2=/openssl/trunk/rand/md_rand.c
The fix: http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pkg-openssl/openssl/trunk/crypto/rand/md_rand.c?rev=300&view=diff&r1=300&r2=299&p1=openssl/trunk/crypto/rand/md_rand.c&p2=/openssl/trunk/crypto/rand/md_rand.c
The offending patch: http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pkg-openssl/openssl/trunk/rand/md_rand.c?rev=141&view=diff&r1=141&r2=140&p1=openssl/trunk/rand/md_rand.c&p2=/openssl/trunk/rand/md_rand.c
The fix: http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pkg-openssl/openssl/trunk/crypto/rand/md_rand.c?rev=300&view=diff&r1=300&r2=299&p1=openssl/trunk/crypto/rand/md_rand.c&p2=/openssl/trunk/crypto/rand/md_rand.c
+ - Jun-ichiro 'itojun' Itoh Hagino passed away->
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kensan writes "Dragos Ruiu announced on the OpenBSD-misc mailing list that Jun-ichiro 'itojun' Itoh Hagino, best known in his role as IPv6 KAME project core researcher, has passed away. Itojun did the vast majority of the work to get IPv6 into the BSD network stacks. He was also instrumental in moving IPv6 forward in all aspects through his participation in IETF protocol design meetings. Itojun was helpful to everyone around him, and dedicated to his work. He believed and worked toward making technology available to everyone.
Kerneltrap also has some information: http://kerneltrap.org/OpenBSD/Jun-ichiro_itojun_Hagino"
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