Comment Corrrections to post text (Score 4, Informative) 123
It was a terminal server, not a router, and the previously-published attack was shell injection, not SQL injection.
Comment Re:Four Square (Score 1) 220
The cafe in the computer science building at the University of Michigan is called the Foo Bar.
Journal Journal: India's voting machines are insecure
Hari K. Prasad, J. Alex Halderman, Rop Gonggrijp are reporting that India's voting machines are vulnerable to fraud:
Submission + - Hardware Attacks against India's E-Voting Machines (indiaevm.org)
An anonymous reader writes: India, the world's largest democracy, votes entirely on government made electronic voting machines that authorities claim are "tamperproof", "infallible", and "perfect," but last week security researchers proved that they can be manipulated to steal elections. A team led by Hari Prasad, Professor J. Alex Halderman, and Rop Gonggrijp released an awesome video that shows off hardware hacks they built. These machines are much simpler than e-voting designs used in the US, but as the research paper explains, this makes attacking the hardware even easier. Halderman's students at the University of Michigan took only about a week to build a replacement display board that lies about the vote totals, and the team also built a pocket-sized device that clips onto the memory chips, with the machine powered on, and rewrites the votes. Clippy says, 'It looks like you're trying to rig an election...'
Feed Schneier: Security Analysis of India's Electronic Voting Machines (schneier.com)
Comment Re:In theory, a company could be investing (Score 1) 506
blow, hookers and cocaine
One of these things is the same as another one...
Comment Re:In a post-[Event X] world... (Score 1) 415
and the shame this time is that it's a comment from a /. user - I thought we were supposed to be more informed and enlightened than knee-jerking idiots?
No no no...you've confused yourself with a Reddit user, or perhaps you confused the gp with a Digg user?
No no no...you've confused yourself with a Reddit user, or perhaps you confused the gp with a Digg user?
Journal Journal: DVR radio commercial 2
I don't normally write in my journal here, but I had to ask about this. Has anyone else heard a radio commercial that starts with this line:
"Is juggling work, kids and your life taking the fun out of TV?"
Is anyone else amazed that our society has gotten to where this is a viable commercial?
I can't remember exactly who did it, it was promoting a DVR and I think it had to do with satellite TV, but I could be wrong on the satellite part.
"Is juggling work, kids and your life taking the fun out of TV?"
Is anyone else amazed that our society has gotten to where this is a viable commercial?
I can't remember exactly who did it, it was promoting a DVR and I think it had to do with satellite TV, but I could be wrong on the satellite part.
Comment Re:Nice, but (Score 4, Funny) 271
Error! The comment you have submitted is too packed with stereotypical superlatives. Please hang yourself and try again later.
