I love the idea of abusing the fact that spammers are in a hurry. Traffic Control checks all the geeky check-boxes of a SMTP proxy I should take a closer look at.
So the first thing I do once I can netcat to the proxy and check it’s running is fire up a “tcpflow -c -i [...]

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Right cottages4you Listen up! .... I hope you all had a better festive season than me. -4 degrees on Christmas morning with a broken boiler in the heart of northern France wasn’t much fun. We perceivered for a couple of nights with the loan of some crappy electric heaters and a temperamental example of French [...]

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.. It’s back to knee jerk reality with a bump. It’s stupid’o’clock and I can’t sleep.
I should probably explain this category at this point.

“Knee-Jerk”; Synonyms: absence of thought, automatic reaction, gut reaction, involuntary impulse, Pavlovian response.
(Strangely rarely the latter )

So Knee-Jerk is something thats done for the sake of doing [...]

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http://www.win.tue.nl/~bdeweger/CollidingCertificates/
http://eprint.iacr.org/2005/067.pdf
http://www.computing.dcu.ie/~coheigeartaigh/presentations/redbrick_talk.pdf

Don’t start any FUD please, this attack can be thwarted since it requires you know the templates of the certificates and as most serial numbers are long enough randoms or created via a secret, this will mostly foil this as I understand it.

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Test Bed has some good points about the “ship it quick, patch it later” culture that follows some (not all) Internet focused software. Internet spurs poor quality software
In the past, console games have always been more stable than PC games, in general, because they are not easy to patch. If a company releases a screwed [...]

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