The DMZ

Adnan

16:00

@Saladin Could you please quote the message for me?

Saladin

@Adnan its okay if you cannot help me. Just say so, I can go someone with a bit more knowledge.

it wasn't here @adnan

I'm talking about the subject in multiple chat rooms.

Adnan

@Saladin Well, I'm only active in this room.

Saladin

@Adnan beside if you know any guide or reference to decode benencode suff please let me know.

Adnan

@Saladin You simply need to learn how they're encoded and you'll learn how to decode them

Bencode

Bencode (pronounced like B encode) is the encoding used by the peer-to-peer file sharing system BitTorrent for storing and transmitting loosely structured data. It supports four different types of values: * byte strings, * integers, * lists, and * dictionaries (associative arrays). Bencoding is most commonly used in torrent files. These metadata files are simply bencoded dictionaries. While less efficient than a pure binary encoding, bencoding is simple and (because numbers are encoded as text in decimal notation) is unaffected by endianness, which is important for a cross-platform app...

Saladin

@adnan and you have yet to explain why info_hash has nothing to do with Ip and port information when its clearly written in DHT reference link that it does. I think you are not understanding my requirements

@Adnan okay i will take a look at this

i have to go now

Adnan

16:03

@Simon Help me!

@Saladin You're misunderstanding the documentation.

Simon

@Adnan I know nothing about that, can't help ya.

Adnan

@Simon That's not what I meant

Simon

Help you with what?

I can get you a cab in 5 mins.

Adnan

@Simon That'd be great

@Saladin Also, you can use a bencode editor if you're not capable of understanding bencode sites.google.com/site/ultimasites/bencode-editor

Xander

16:20

@Simon In Finland? You're good. What are you, some sort of concierge?

lynks

I'll be in sweden this time next week.

Simon

@Xander Was the favorite hobby of the people who invented English to steal words from French?

lynks

Finally I can go into online games and spam "swe?"

@Simon Every language has words taken from other languages. Chinese and Japanese are full of English words, far more than we are full of French words.

Xander

@Simon You're avoiding the question. And when a word works, we use it, and leave it well enough alone. The only word we bother changing are the stupid British words.

lynks

@Simon German also has many English words.

Adnan

16:22

@lynks How long are you staying?

Xander

@Simon How long would it take you to get me a dump truck and a snowmobile in Charlotte?

Adnan

Because I'll be there next week as well (Stockholm)

lynks

@Adnan Im just driving up the coast to Norway, so like 2 days.

Simon

@Xander 2 hours top.

lynks

@Adnan Other side :( Gothenburg -> Oslo etc

Adnan

16:24

@lynks Of course you're coming to Finland on your way back.. right? RIGHTTTT?!

Xander

@Simon No way! Prove it. Go ahead and put them on your credit card, and I'll pay you back. Or at least have a drink on your behalf.

lynks

@Adnan Given that I'm in a car, and that there is a MASSIVE ocean blocking the way to Finland...

You guys need a road bridge via Mariehamn

Damn, looking at it, Finland is even more cut-off from Europe than the UK.

Simon

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@Xander Here's a picture of me driving a truck.

lynks

He's got you there Xander.

Adnan

@lynks There are many ferry lines between Sweden and Finland. All can carry cars.

Xander

16:27

@Simon LOL.

Adnan

and they're not expensive

@Simon and here's a star for you

lynks

@Adnan Ahh, that fixes it. Your other option is...Russia and the Eastern Bloc.

Adnan

@lynks +1

You shouldn't miss the Finnish hospitality.. hehehe

lynks

@Adnan You have the best snipers in the world.

Adnan

@lynks Simo Häyhä and Adnan

lynks

16:31

@Adnan Exactly

I feel bad for this person:

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Q: What should an IT security officer know?

I've recently graduated University and landed myself a good job as an IT security officer. I'm receiving training for firewalls, audits etc but I cant help but feel as if I should be learning much more at a quicker pace and I want to take things into my own hands. I've currently got myself readi...

professional-education

They seem nice, but it's probably doomed to be closed.

Adnan

@lynks I feel nothing for him. VTC and -1

Well, maybe the -1 was little too harsh for this case

Simon

NNNNNNNUUUUUUUUUUKKKKKKKKKKKEEEEEEEEE: security.stackexchange.com/questions/41340/…

lynks

Rory McCune

@Adnan "hospitality"

satwcomic.com/sauna-time

Xander

@lynks It's also about the bazillionth time a question along these lines has been asked and closed.

Adnan

16:34

@RoryMcCune That's actually factually correct. That actually happens. The comic missed the part where sauna temp is raised to 90-95C

Rory McCune

@Adnan that doesn't sound like a fun thing but hey I guess I'd have to try it before I knock it..

Adnan

@RoryMcCune Oh, it is fun. You get into a 2x2 room with 6-7 other people. Raise the temp to 90C, then start hitting each other with this thing (vihta), then throw yourself into snow outside in the -25C

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Best fun in the winter!!!

Ron Paul 2016!!!

lynks

@Adnan I'm the guy who goes to the baths with the really hot and really cold pools, where you're supposed to use both somehow....and just sits in the hot pool for hours.

Adnan

Oh, forgot the most important thing. All that happens while everybody is naked.

David Freitag

@Adnan Right, because at that temperature any mere clothing would conflagrate.

Adnan

16:41

@lynks I've never heard of that

lynks

@Adnan We have those in the UK, I have no idea what temperatures. But one is about hot-shower, and the other is like...the sea on the Atlantic coast.

Thomas Pornin

17:23

Where is @RoryAlsop now ? I have to gloat.

Simon

@ThomasPornin Who knows. Anyways, all that matters is that I'm here!

Rory Alsop

17:53

I'm here big bear. What's the gloating for?

Tom Leek

@RoryAlsop WELCOME TO SECOND LINE.

Rory Alsop

Noooooooooooooooo!

:-)

Simon

@RoryAlsop I might not get the Subaru back today :(

This world is not worth living in without a Subaru.

Simon

18:25

Nuke: security.stackexchange.com/questions/41354/…

Lucas Kauffman

Second line, where people actually have clue what they are doing

Simon

18:42

Nuky Luke: security.stackexchange.com/questions/41360/…

Lamia

Quick Q: Would you call yourself an information security specialist even if you're still a student? ;P

AJ Henderson

wohoo for days when I update visual studio and my local next release and production repositories. 3+ hours of sitting around watching progress bars move

Thomas Pornin

@Lamia I am no longer a student.

Simon

@Lamia I don't think you can consider yourself a specialist unless you've seen what it's like in the real world.

Lamia

@ThomasPornin I am..

Thomas Pornin

18:47

If, when I was a student, I had known everything I know now, I would have had no problem with calling myself an information security specialist, though I would not have thought about it in these terms.

In particular, I was not aware of the expression "information security" at that time.

Lamia

@Simon What if you wrote an article and you can't mention that you're student so people would read what you wrote :O

I mean, I don't consider myself as specialist, but I know enough.. and I am not sure what I am supposed to call myself

Simon

@Lamia Well, this is closer to a philosophical question than anything else, I believe.

Lamia

I can say consultant, for example. I am still not in that level

Simon

Maybe include a short bio, any research you've done, etc.

Thomas Pornin

@Lamia If what you write is interesting, people will read.

Anyway, student to researcher is a continuum; one may say that a researcher is still a student in some way.

Lamia

18:51

Maybe I can't include a short bio because it is gonna be in the newspaper :p

Thomas Pornin

And a lot of research is done by students.

Lamia

Yes you're right

@ThomasPornin I think it is interesting.. but my other reason is to get them publish my article :P

I have included my resources of course

plus I am studying information security.. so I am kind of a specialist :P

I guess I will just write "Information Security" ><

Simon

@Lamia It sounds like you're trying to convince yourself.

Lamia

@Simon LOL, I am.. I don't want to lie to myself but I want to convince it

Adnan

19:15

Anybody seeing a reptrain here?

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Q: Why do chimneys have these spiral "wings"?

Why walking around I noticed something very peculiar. Many chimneys had spiral "wings", while others didn't. I came up with two possibilities: The wind circles around the chimney upwards which pushes whatever gases being released even higher into the sky. The wind circles around the chimney dow...

air

@Lamia Information security enthusiast?

Scott Pack

@ThomasPornin And sometimes they even get credited!

Rory Alsop

20:25

@ThomasP - just realised big bear well have a nice irrelevant milestone coming up pretty soon as well!

Thomas Pornin

@RoryAlsop Well, "pretty soon" is relative -- we are talking about 4.5k rep. With the rep cap, it would take at least three weeks to accumulate that much.

I totally agree with the "nice" and "irrelevant" terms, though.

Gilles

you get a T-shirt (or at least I did (or at least I was offered one but never claimed it))

tylerl

20:49

Yay for meaningless rep numerology!

Lamia

@Adnan Is that a common name ?

Gilles

@tylerl 55555 would be more impressive

and 555,555 would be more symmetric

say, I missed 12,345

tylerl

@Gilles Which reminds me, who else actually noticed when unixtime rolled around to "1234567890"?

Gilles

21:04

@tylerl oh, I'm sure some people noticed, but these people undoubtedly found 2004-01-10 13:37:04 more remarkable

Adnan

21:39

@tylerl This is very difficult for me.

On one hand, I want to ruin the nice number for you.

On the other hand, it looks like we're competing for that 3rd row seat.

@Lamia I think it is. I say don't stress about it so much. Write the article/post, choose an attractive title, and people will read it. Plus, who wouldn't want to read something written by someone with a beautiful name like Lamia?

tylerl

@Adnan One of us is competing; the other has a job :)

Trying to come up with better wording for this:

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A: Custom Close Reasons (August 2013)

This question is a request for personal legal advice, which is not within the scope of this site. While general discussions of laws are appropriate within the context of IT security, you should always consult a lawyer instead of the Internet when accuracy is important.

Adnan

@tylerl It's okay, you'll get one some day.

tylerl

@Adnan Hopefully not. I haven't been "employed" in nearly a decade.

Xander

@tylerl Wait, so you're the one competing then?

tylerl

21:54

@Xander it gets confusing

Xander

@tylerl I'll say! :-)

tylerl

22:15

That was a morning well-spent. Thanks to the crappyness of PHP, I just earned another $800.

If rasmus lerdorf had had even a lick of programming skill, I'd be out of a job.

Adnan

22:44

Yipppy!! That was a reptrain!

Gilles

@Adnan the Lotus Notes question? Weird, for such an old application

I'm surprised that security.stackexchange.com/questions/41210/… went totally unnoticed, what with Tim Berners-Lee being involved, and Google paranoia

Adnan

@Gilles I meant this

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Q: Why do chimneys have these spiral "wings"?

While walking around I noticed something very peculiar. Many chimneys had spiral "wings", while others didn't. I came up with two possibilities: The wind circles around the chimney upwards which pushes whatever gases being released even higher into the sky. The wind circles around the chimney d...

air

D3C4FF

@Adnan That's actually pretty cool. I'd wondered the same...

Adnan

23:03

@D3C4FF Actually, today was the first time I'd ever seen that.

Interestingly, after the initial observation this morning, I saw it a couple more times in other places.

In a way, it's like when you learn a new word.

D3C4FF

Yeah, or when you buy a new car :P

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