3rd party MSN problems: Update!

January 31st, 2009

After a bit of research and a new discovery, I have posted an update to my original “3rd party MSN problems” blog entry. In this update, I go into a bit more detail as to exactly why libpurple failed.

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The Hacker Mindset

January 14th, 2009

I was recently asked to write an article for the Hellbound Hackers newsletter and choose to write on the mindset of a hacker. What goes on inside their heads? What makes a ‘great hacker?’

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3rd party MSN problems

January 12th, 2009

Yesterday I attempted to connect to my MSN account with pidgin and received the error “Unable to retrieve MSN Address Book.“  After a bit of research I found that Microsoft has prevaricated parts of the MSN protocol in turn for the WLM protocol.
In order to fix this issue, you must switch your protocol to WLM […]

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Gmail Vulnerability: All hype?

November 26th, 2008

On Sunday a post on geekcondition.com described an exploit in Gmail that lead to multiple GoDaddy domain’s being stolen. On Tuesday, Google released an official update responding to this.

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crackIt: aircrack-ng automated

November 15th, 2008

I was playing around with my wireless network early today and realized I didn’t have the key written down near by where I was working. Rather than expending the effort of getting up and moving, I decided I’d just crack it. I ended up writing a short bash script to automate multiple configurations of aircrack. crackIt was born…

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Hackers For Charity

November 1st, 2008

In one of my recent HFC emails, I read the following:
“This month, I thought that it would be fun to partner up with Hackers
for Charity in order to raise money for the people of Uganda. The
Academy has offered to donate $1 to Hackers for Charity for every user
that registers for a free account at www.theacademy.ca […]

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Google’s ‘Chrome’ released…

September 3rd, 2008

Google has recently released it’s browser ‘Chrome‘ for beta testing. After playing around with it a bit, I liked the shiny look of the interface, but it just doesn’t stack up to Firefox, yet. I do worry about the implications of using a browser developed by Google, being that Google is known for keeping large […]

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Ion3 Window Manager

August 25th, 2008

Those of you who know me, know I hate window managers and GUI in general under linux. After using nothing but screen for ages and testing a window manager here and there, I finally found a window manager I liked: Ion3.
In essence, Ion3 is screen… as a desktop manager. Based on PWM, Ion3 is meant […]

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Windows XP as a router…

August 24th, 2008

I’ve recently working in an environment where only a wireless network connection was available, however; 2 of my 3 machines did not support wireless internet. After dealing with not having those machines offline for a while, I finally decided to do something about it.

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Reading Rainbow: Episode 12

August 24th, 2008

File systems, search algorithms, and spam… oh my. That’s right, in this episode we go over all three of these. Also featured, a method to detect gender with javascript, a great way to generate .htaccess files, and a brief bit on typo-squatting.

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