It’s on my desk now

The Best of 2600: A Hacker Odyssey
Product Description
Since 1984, the quarterly magazine 2600 has provided fascinating articles for readers who are curious about technology. Find the best of the magazine’s writing in Best of 2600: A Hacker Odyssey, a collection of the strongest, most interesting, and often most controversial articles covering 24 years of changes in technology, all from a hacker’s perspective. Included are stories about the creation of the infamous tone dialer “red box” that allowed hackers to make free phone calls from payphones, the founding of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the insecurity of modern locks.

TrueCrypt is a software system for establishing and maintaining an on-the-fly-encrypted volume (data storage device). On-the-fly encryption means that data are automatically encrypted or decrypted right before they are loaded or saved, without any user intervention. No data stored on an encrypted volume can be read (decrypted) without using the correct password/keyfile(s) or correct encryption keys. Entire file system is encrypted (e.g., file names, folder names, contents of every file, free space, meta data, etc).

New features:

* Parallelized encryption/decryption on multi-core processors (or multi-processor systems). Increase in encryption/decryption speed is directly proportional to the number of cores and/or processors.

For example, if your computer has a quad-core processor, encryption and decryption will be four times faster than on a single-core processor with equivalent specifications (likewise, it will be twice faster on dual-core processors, etc

* Ability to create and run an encrypted hidden operating system whose existence is impossible to prove (provided that certain guidelines are followed). For more information, see the section Hidden Operating System. (Windows Vista/XP/2008/2003)

* On Linux, TrueCrypt now uses native kernel cryptographic services (by default) for volumes encrypted in XTS mode. This increases read/write speed in most cases. However, the FUSE driver must still be used when the volume is encrypted in a deprecated mode of operation (LRW or CBC), or when mounting an outer volume with hidden-volume protection, or when using an old version of the Linux kernel that does not support XTS mode. (Linux)

website: http://www.truecrypt.org

The security guard looked me a little bit strange, guess why

Today I’m proud to release fastCa 0.9, fastCA is a Fast and easy SSL certification authority builder. Based on the openssl command line and dialog tool. The usage of this software is extremely simple, at the beginning all that is required to edit - is the file vars, where the information regarding the certification authority is stored ( COUNTRY,PROVINCE,CITY,ORG,EMAIL,OU,CN ). After running the script ./FastCa.sh (as root) , a simple step by step process will guide you to create a self certification authority and to export the SSL certificates to encrypt the traffic on your web/mail server.

Hacking this software is encouraged and appreciated .

web page: http://www.cryptolife.org/fastca/

download: http://www.cryptolife.org/fastca/fastCA.zip

screenshot: http://www.cryptolife.org/fastca/fastCA.jpg

On next Tuesday we’ll be traveling to San Francisco (California).After landing we will reach Berkeley, where our friend lives and where we will stay for two weeks . I’m pretty excited to hang around San Francisco, Berkeley University, Mountain View and the silicon valley. I’ll be very happy, if through the blog, someone could give me some advice about the Bay Area events and cool places to visit.

how worth is :
sf2600.org meeting
www.buug.org meeting

Today I’ve tried to install the vmware server on my laptop, where is running ubuntu 8.04 ( hardy heron). Everything went smoothly, except when I tried to run the Vmware server-console, the system returned the following error:

/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_3.4′ not found (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2)

/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_4.2.0′ not found (required by /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6)

/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_3.4′ not found (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2)

/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_4.2.0′ not found (required by /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6)

/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_3.4′ not found (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2)

/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_4.2.0′ not found (required by /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6)

A quick and dirty workaround is to comment out the line 246 on the file /usr/lib/vmware/lib/wrapper-gtk24.sh

Just a simple iptables script for a standalone mail,web,dns server.

Here’s the code in a readable mode:

www.cryptolife.org/code/easyfire/firewall.txt


#!/bin/sh
IPT="/sbin/iptables"
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_syncookies
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_all
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts
echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
#modules
$IPT -P INPUT DROP
$IPT -P FORWARD DROP
$IPT -P OUTPUT ACCEPT
# Enable free use of loopback interfaces
$IPT -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT
$IPT -A OUTPUT -o lo -j ACCEPT
# Input policy
$IPT -A INPUT -j ACCEPT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED
TCP="22,25,53,80,123,443,993"
UDP="53,123"
$IPT -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp -j ACCEPT -m multiport --dports $TCP -m state --state NEW
$IPT -A INPUT -i eth0 -p udp -j ACCEPT -m multiport --dports $UDP -m state --state NEW


This man is not welcome in Croatia .

With this post I want to take a look to the communities that use Wikimedia as a collaborative tool.

en.wikibooks.org
Wikibooks is a Wikimedia community for creating a free library of educational textbooks that anyone can edit. Wikibooks began on July 10, 2003, since then Wikibooks has grown to include over 28,696 pages in a multitude of textbooks created by volunteers like you!

wikitravel.org
Wikitravel is a project to create a free, complete, up-to-date, and reliable worldwide travel guide. So far we have 18,087 destination guides and other articles written and edited by Wikitravellers from around the globe. Check out the Help page to see how you can edit any page right now, or the Project page for more information about Wikitravel and getting involved.

commons.wikimedia.org
If you are browsing Commons for the first time, you may want to start with our featured pictures or quality images, which have been selected by the Commons community as being particularly valuable.

wikimapia.org
WikiMapia is an online map and satellite imaging resource that combines Google Maps with a wiki system, allowing users to add information (in the form of a note) to any location on earth.

cosmeticwiki.com
CosmeticWiki features over 35000+ of your favorite Skin Care, Hair, and Cosmetics products. View Product Information, Ingredient Lists, User Testimonials and Price Comparisons for each, or add your own.

www.wikileaks.org
Wikileaks is a website that publishes anonymous submissions and leaks of sensitive corporate and government documents, while taking measures to preserve the anonymity and traceability of its contributors.

www.sourcewatch.org
SourceWatch is a collaborative project of the Center for Media and Democracy to produce a directory of the people, organizations and issues shaping the public agenda.

en.wikinews.org
The free news source you can write!

anarchopedia.org
Anarchopedia is an open knowledge-portal and online anarchist community.

wiktionary.org
Wiktionary, a collaborative project to produce a free-content multilingual dictionary.