Trouble

  • security strikeout

    Everybody’s Talkin’… no one’s doing? Talking to a CSO of a fortune 500 company and a CSO of a bank… asked them if they ran scanners or vulnerability assessment tools on their home systems. No. Of course no. 0-3. And pretty much no one I know in the security profession does… it’s way too painful,…

  • jesus fuxing christ

    Some tool at firefox, which I’ve started using more with more web dev (<3 firebug), decided it’d be a good idea to switch windows if you type in a URL that is already open.   Unbelievable that they think this is good UI practice (switching focus invisibly to another fucking monitor is progress?)  And having no…

  • jenny’s got a pony

    Ran across one of the all time great command line arguments while working with virtualbox’s VBoxManage: –eula accept Yes, my perl program accepts your EULA. Now go away…. (Los Lobos is in the house, hence the title)  

  • how on earth….

    … can metasploit not export to CSV? And after going to great lengths to build it from source… it breaks a bit later… for no perceptible reason. Reinstall. At least their installer works. Then try to install bro… has a dependency (libmagic) that has no install option in the makefile. Great, time to look at…

  • 3.66+ million can’t be wrong

    So I got a CD in the mail with the WA state voter information; it has 3.66M active records (and something close to 5M total; they say something like 6.8M live in WA) on it, and is available for $7 from the WA secretary of state. There are 9 daniel farmers; nothing remarkable, but I’m…