/dev/random Archive

Weekly recommended links

I am going to start off with a series of link recommendations as what I find a good read needs to be shared: Documentation: Linux vs. FreeBSD (a case study) A praise for hackers The sad state of Romanian blogs The inventor that hacked the dictatorship 75% of Bluetooth smart locks can be hacked Apache

Who uses cracked WinRAR ?

I kept seeing a lot of posts here and there throughout time across the p2p networks with cracked versions of WinRAR. These cracked versions contained basically a registry key and by the looks of it after all these years the developers behind WinRAR didn’t bother changing the algorithm to make the crack more difficult. And

Hosting for the DeepWeb? Yessir

Just as most of the DeepWeb service providers those that advertise selling servers to be used on the DeepWeb invoke the freedom of speech when doing so. The pricing for the servers (which appear to be VPS) is fairly cheap and this doubts the privacy level these folks can offer. The funny thing about their

Redundancy bitch! You need it

ArsTechnica writes about the disruption that knocked off all Delta Airlines’ operations today and which apparently was caused by a fire in their datacenter: According to the flight captain of JFK-SLC this morning, a routine scheduled switch to the backup generator this morning at 2:30am caused a fire that destroyed both the backup and the

Idiots everywhere

Here’s two stories that will make you laugh until your balls hurt: BBC detector vans are back: The folks over at BBC have announced that they have upgraded their detector vans and will use them to spy on everyone in order to determine who users their iPlayer without a license. Well going out public on