Author: Tim's Bookmarks

Veracode is a finalist for Best Security Software Development Solution.

Interesting. Like all good experiments it gets more interesting the deeper you go into it. I particularly like the timeline of news articles that trace developments in the story.

This. This is what makes a vein in my forehead twitch every time I hear about the RIAA going after someone for filesharing “because it hurts the artist.” If record companies devoted a fraction of the resources to paying their own damned bills that they do to tracking down peer-to-peer users, artists would be a lot better off.

Good to have a little more transparency, even if it's accidental, around the TSA's processes.

It is, inevitably, humbling to show up for a routine gig and become a part of someone else’s story. That happened today as we performed at the Prudential Center at a free gig; at the end of the second set, we helped to make Victor’s wish a reality. When I think about how we take performing for granted… I don’t think I’ll take it for granted any more.

Saturday is the first Boston Pops Christmas gig of the season, and it’s free!

Free DNS for Google. Easier to remember, too: 8.8.4.4 and 8.8.8.8.

“Yes, we know that the numbers don’t add up, and it doesn’t matter.”

This might be a good solution for securing legacy applications where you don’t have the source code, or as an OS level feature. Generally speaking, it’s better to just fix the vulnerabilities.

Charlie is now forever stuck on the MTA.

I hope that Microsoft gets through to these users, especially the corporate ones, but if all the security issues don’t get through to them then what will?

The ignominious end of an era.

OMFG.

I love how, in this article, the dismissal of Peter Lalich is singled out by Groh as a reason that he’s going downhill: “When the player who was designated ‘quarterback to the future’ was not available to us, it put us on a different course.” “Was not available”? You know, if you were any sort of coach, your key players wouldn’t be leaving Charlottesville with indictments around their necks. You’re responsible for their behavior.

A pretty scary hack in which command statements are “encrypted” so that they appear to be paragraphs of English text.

I didn’t realize Hershey’s was still controlled by the family trust.

Yikes. Serious SQL injection vulnerability exposes Symantec customer password and credit card data. Here are the details.

Nice: historic whisky, lost on cold, cold storage for 100 years, found. Would love an invitation to that tasting party.

Looks like I’ve found my holiday listening.

Lovely. Glad that we’re bravely facing adversity.

Looks like I’ve found my next time waster.

I was thinking “Ig Nobel” material until I read the part about being used for TB testing. Then I decided this guy has a lock on next year’s medicine award.

Sounds much better, doesn’t it? Hiney Flu.

Interesting discussion about parts of the Bible that challenge faith when viewed from modern perspectives.

Interesting – an adaptable type specimen sheet for proofing web fonts.

As John Gruber wrote, I never thought I’d say it but I agree with Grover Norquist.

The problem with the original Google Books plan was “the agreement gives too much market power to Google over out-of-print books. How’s that again? Out-of-print books, by definition, are those for which there is no market today, nor likely to be one any time in the future.”

Jimmy Wales schools Poynter in how Wikipedia and the Internet work. Funny read. Best quotation: “There is no move to restrict editing on Wikipedia pages of living people. The rest of your question is negated by this fact.”

Interesting list of security, forensics, and general troubleshooting tools for the Mac OS X platform.