Security Vulnerability Bingo
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An anonymous reader writes "Ben Bitdiddle of MIT fame sends an open letter to system administrators encouraging them to stop patching their systems so they can play 'Security Vulnerability Bingo.'"
Submission + - Let's Play Security Vulnerability Bingo! (ksplice.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Ben Bitdiddle of MIT fame sends an open letter to system administrators encouraging them to stop patching their systems so they can play "Security Vulnerability Bingo".
Submission + - Sniffing the wireless traffic of MIT students (ksplice.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Someone got permission to sniff the wireless traffic during an MIT class. The professor: none other than Robert Morris, creator of the first internet worm! The lecture: computer security! I love it.
Submission + - International Longest Tweet Contest seeks entries (ksplice.com)
An anonymous reader writes: The 1st International Longest Tweet Contest is open for submissions until April 12. It looks to be a take-off of the famous Obfuscated C Contest. So far the record is 4.2 kilobits encoded per tweet, based on exploiting the fact that Twitter actually passes the full 31 bits of ISO 10646 (the international standard that Unicode is based on), not the roughly 20.08 bits/character of Unicode itself.
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