Ubuntu One : “store, sync and share”. looks an awful lot like Canonical have just reinvented a linux-only version of Dropbox for some reason :( here’s hoping it’s open source at least, right?
(tags: dropbox canonical ubuntu linux sync online-backup filesharing)Merkle trees : hashes utilitizing a tree structure, as used for efficient delta reconciliation in Amazon’s Dynamo, in next-gen hash algorithm MD6, and Sun’s ZFS filesystem. see also Tiger tree hashing, used in Gnutella and DC p2p algos
(tags: gnutella merkle-trees hash-trees hashing hashes algorithms data-structures crypto security zfs)MD6 : next-gen hash function, allowing immense parallel computation of hashes using a Merkle-tree-like structure. funnily enough, in use right now by the Conficker worm! (via Richi)
(tags: via:richi merkle-trees hashing hash-trees md6 algorithms coding hash crypto security conficker)blasphemy.ie : A blog from Atheist Ireland as part of their campaign against the proposed new anti-blasphemy law, to replace the unenforceable old law
(tags: blasphemy free-speech ireland atheism humanism laws legal constitution absurd wtf)Attack vectors deja vu : get memory to contain malicious code, then make process dump core; naive directory search then reads your core file, attempts to interpret it, and runs malicious commands. This is one reason why SpamAssassin looks for specific file extensions when dir-searching for configs
(tags: configuration filenames exploits security core logrotate cron)