Monthly Archives: April 2008

Feeling Secure, being secure?

Posted on 25. April 2008 by jplasser

Bruce Schneier had a good article the other day: The Feeling and Reality of Security. I also recommend this one (from the comments) and an older article which is quite informative. We are all much to sensible regarding the security … Continue reading →

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Read then write …

Posted on 19. April 2008 by jplasser

After reading this article on The Daily WTF I found Mike Andrews’ blog post that said it all.

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The 10.000 web sites infection mystery solved

Posted on 18. April 2008 by jplasser

SANS has a report about an attack that for example caused the latest outage of the Austrian WKÖ website. The WKÖ website was carrying Chinese malware at least for one hour and they are titling “Hackerangriff erfolgreich abgewehrt”? Do they … Continue reading →

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Edward Lorenz dead

Posted on 18. April 2008 by jplasser

After Wheeler now Edward Lorenz–father of Chaos theory–died. He coined the term butterfly effect. While studying computer science in Linz I was very impressed by chaos theory and its implications. Above you can see a strange attractor, the Lorenz attractor, … Continue reading →

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RIP John Archibald Wheeler

Posted on 16. April 2008 by jplasser

John Archibald Wheeler, the great physicist who coined the term “Black Hole”, died at 96 today.

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21.1km

Posted on 14. April 2008 by jplasser

Yesterday I ran as one of 14.500 poeple the half marathon in Linz in 1:59:17,1. Great weather, great fun and I finished under 2 hours!

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