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1:10 AM
Interesting video... what happens when phone scammers call the wrong guy...
 
1:44 AM
@RoryAlsop @Ninefingers Sorry, I kind of went a little nuts here...
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Q: Vote for your question of the week #28

Rory AlsopFor QOTW #28, scheduled for publishing to the Security Stack Exchange Blog on 8 June, please post as Answers, and vote for your favorite question from the whole Security Stackexchange site. Please post any question that you feel is of worth and the reason why as an answer below. Try not to promo...

 
 
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10:50 AM
interesting - wonder if he read the faq?
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Q: How to exploit this C code?

user1405417I'm working on a Linux machine and I'm trying to exploit this source code: #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <setjmp.h> #include <string.h> #define ERROR 1 void checkfilename(jmp_buf e, char *filename) { if (access(filename, W_OK...

 
11:13 AM
@RoryAlsop you mean the part on hat colours?
it's cross posted too:
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Q: How to exploit this C code?

user1405417I'm working on a Linux machine and I'm trying to exploit this source code: #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <setjmp.h> #include <string.h> #define ERROR 1 void checkfilename(jmp_buf e, char *filename) { if (access(filename, W_OK...

 
11:25 AM
@IsziRoryorIsznti - guessing you are watching the Dragon docking live.
Very cool
for those that aren't - engadget.com/2012/05/25/psa-spacex-docking has live video feed
 
12:25 PM
ninefingers on May 25, 2012

Question of the Week number 27 is a contentious, hotly debated issue in the software world. The question itself was posed by Security.SE user blunders, who quoted the argument often used in the defence of open source as a business model:

and then we hit the question itself:

We’ll begin with the top voted answer by SE user Jesper Mortensen, who explained that the whole notion of being able to generally compare open versus closed source systems is a bad one when there are so many other factors involved. To compare two systems you really need to look beyond the licensing model they use, and look at other factors too. I’ll quote Jesper’s list in its entirety: …

 
12:39 PM
@RoryAlsop Nope. Just got in the office. Busy day today. Thanks for the link, though.
@Ninefingers Good post.
Drat. It seems I forgot my towel today.
Towel Day is celebrated every year on 25 May as a tribute by fans of the author Douglas Adams. On this day, fans carry a towel with them to demonstrate their appreciation for the books and the author, as referred to in Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The commemoration was first held in 2001, two weeks after Adams' death on 11 May 2001. Origin The original quotation that explained the importance of towels is found in Chapter 3 of Adams' work The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The original article that began Towel Day was posted at "Binary Freedom", a short-lived open s...
 
1:06 PM
@IsziRoryorIsznti are you a frood who doesn't know where their towel is?
 
@RoryAlsop Oh, I know where my towel is. It's just not with me.
 
@IsziRoryorIsznti And would knowing where their towels were have saved Arthur and Ford when suffering from what felt like the aftereffects of a Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster?
:-)
 
@RoryAlsop Oh, certainly. The towel would have made for a great pillow to rest their heads upon, or it could have been wrapped around their heads to block out or reduce exposure to light and sound. That is, of course, presuming they could get to said towels.
In the case that they couldn't, knowing that they know where their towels are and that their towels are not with them would probably only serve to amplify the effects as they become frustrated over not having their towels with them.
Wow. We've got somewhere around 300 closed threads here.
 
1:45 PM
@RoryAlsop @AviD Just flagged 37 of the oldest closed topics for deletion or merge. There should be a badge for using all your flags in one day.
 
@IsziRoryorIsznti Next time you're allowed to change your name again, "street sweeper" might be a good one :)
 
@IsziRoryorIsznti Deleting old questions is tricksome.
You don't want to delete things with high views, since it still drives traffic to the site, you don't want to delete things that are good examples of closed content
There's also the whole rep impact thing, so you don't want to delete things that have lots of answers, or lots of votes
 
^^
 
You also don't want to delete things that have been closed as dupes, because again they drive traffic.
 
wow. you go away some months and rorys are everywhere
they also cannibalised the tags :S
(or is it rories :P)
 
2:11 PM
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Q: How to mitigate SSL/TLS Protocol Initialization Vector Implementation Information Disclosure Vulnerability?

markusDisclaimer: I'm not a sysadmin, please try to give your answers in developer friendly language ;) I'm test scanning a fresh VPS image with Nessus and I'm getting plugin 58751. I tried figuring out what to do and tried with different SSLCipherSuite settings in the Apache ssl.conf but I keep getti...

seems like it's more your thing than ours - flag it if you want it
and why do I keep getting notifications about QOTW - even when I haven't been her for weeks ?
 
@Iain Because we hate you.
Just guessing.
 
2:44 PM
@ScottPack cheers - it's all yours
 
@Mvy welcome back Rory
@IsziRoryorIsznti @ScottPack - agreed. If they have high views or good answers they'll likely stay, otherwise...
bloody 'ell - 61 flags!!!! Highest ever on this site
 
3:01 PM
@ScottPack That's when you go for a merge.
 
Getting through 'em - and I find myself losing rep gradually. Looks like I answered quite a few offtopic posts :-)
 
@RoryAlsop I really do hate when people do that.
 
@RoryAlsop if they're >6months old you should keep the rep
 
oh - I guess they mostly are. I got better at not doing that :-)
 
3:50 PM
Yay - my best day ever for flags: cleared 63!
Also highest number of flags on this site ever
 
4:05 PM
Hey, does anyone here know of a DDoS tool that always uses a source port of 1234 when doing a SYN-flood?
 
@Ladadadada No, but I like how simple that is to firewall off.
 
Yeah, that's what I'm worried about. I have no access to my firewall. I'm relying on my hosting provider to do this and it took them from yesterday at 4pm until now to figure out that the source port was always 1234.

I'm hoping I can pre-empt his next move so when he switches to randomised source ports I'll have something else I can match on.
 
I think 1234 is a sort of standard for syn floods - some of the training documentation has it as the default source
 
4:21 PM
@RoryAlsop Oh good. Whoever is doing this has "My first DDoS for dummies" open on his desk.
 
@Ladadadada hopefully they haven't got to the section on changing source ports
 
Poor fellow lost his login between post and edit? security.stackexchange.com/a/15345/836
 
lol
 
@RoryAlsop That looks handy.
 
5:10 PM
@IsziRoryorIsznti Not necessarily. You really only want to merge if the answers on the closed question actually makes sense on the destination. All too often something will classify as a dupe, but the answers are too specific to actually make sense.
 
 
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6:15 PM
@ScottPack Yeah - that was the bit that took the most time with the questions you guys marked as delete or merge!
 
6:52 PM
@RoryAlsop I made it a point to ignore anything that was closed as a dupe. And I tried to be good about rep-impact
 
7:24 PM
So what's new, world?
 
8:03 PM
@JeffFerland it's setups like this that make me wish I had a newborn daughter called Erica
 
8:22 PM
@Gilles I don't quite get it...
 
@IsziRoryorIsznti it's a bad pun
 
@Gilles I think I would have gotten it if it was an obvious bad pun...
 
wazzzuuup
 
@IsziRoryorIsznti she could have replied “Am Erica”
 

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