Walking on the UCL campus yesterday, I started Ministumbler on my iPAQ. In the main street, more than 10 networks were detected in the same time! And, of course, lot of them “open” for everybody. (Sorry for the bad picture quality)

Usenet forever the same!

I’m running a NewsCache on rootshell.be to give a local Usenet access to connected users. Today, I quickly checked the current cache: # du . | sort -r -n | head -20 3192620 . 2641484 ./alt 2402852 ./alt/binaries 1087276 ./alt/binaries/pictures 993612 ./alt/binaries/pictures/erotica 262508 ./alt/binaries/boneless 189492 ./alt/binaries/warez 133532 ./alt/binaries/x 112064 ./soc

Home sweet home

Finally, I got extra disk space @ home! 😉 diabolo# df -k | grep wd1 /dev/wd1a 60469890 2 57446394 0% /d0 /dev/wd1d 60469922 2 57446424 0% /d1 /dev/wd1e 60469922 2 57446424 0% /d2 /dev/wd1f 59831610 2 56840028 0% /d3

War in the *BSD clan?

Posted today by Theo on openbsd-misc: <quote> From: Theo de Raadt To: misc@openbsd.org Subject: [BSD-Misc] FreeBSD hiding security stuff A few FreeBSD developers apparently have found some security issue of some sort affecting i386 operating systems in some cases. They have refused to give us real details. A promise is

18 minutes!

StillSecure, a network security company, connected six computers on the Internet, installed with different OSs such Windows XP, Linux, Mac OS. Installation was done “out-of-the-box” without any patches nor security fix. The Windows XP/SP1 was compromized after 18 minutes (!) and started to launch attacks against other hosts! Read the