Category: Tech

No security advisories for Friday [LWN.net]. This warms my heart a little.

I just read the latest update on the Aaron Swartz case, and it turns my stomach. Here’s the summary from boingboing:

I’m using these new icons now. They are sweet! Check out their site.

In my last post on gzip, I discovered that gzip can compress data in a more sync-friendly way. This totally unrelated blog entry from nginx discusses a new gunzip filter that decompresses compressed data for clients that don’t support gzip. I was thinking about this the other day. Why not store all your content compressed, then you

Gzip and Rsync were sitting in a tree, k-i-s- Ok, I’ll stop. I just wanted to mention that I came across this little nugget in the gzip manpage the other night: [crayon-64cebc31346ea839029050/] That, I think, is pretty cool.

I wrote before about Cryptocat, and now it seems Schneier has weighed in on the idea, agreeing with researcher Chris Soghoian that depending on host-based security makes it actually not very secure at all.  Enter Cryptocat 2, an iterative improvement moving towards a browser plugin to avoid the host-based dependency. Good on ’em!

The reactions of all the folks in the control room just really got to me.

name your chat via Cryptocat. Check out the 8-bit video goodness showing how Cryptocat works.

Schneier on Security: Court Orders TSA to Answer EPIC. Please help the courts force the TSA to consider public comments on full body scanners. Year ago, EPIC sued the TSA over full body scanners (I was one of the plantiffs), demanding that they follow their own rules and ask for public comment. The court agreed,

Wow, I’m not sure I’d ever have a need for something like this, but it’s really nice to know it’s there if needed. RedPhone, our Android application for making secure voice calls, is now available as Free and Open Source Software! As with TextSecure, we hope that making RedPhone OSS will enable access to secure

Busted out a little Photoslop [sic] today. I’m sure there’s an easier way than how I approached it but I’m still happy with the results. I can’t believe I just put these in a <table> to show them side-by-side. FML.