Category Archives: Sec, crypto, forensics and priv

Third betrayal of Yahoo!

RSF reported a month ago implication of Yahoo! in a third arrest of a Chinese ciberdisident, Jiang Lijun. By the way, the veredict of Li Zhi proves implication of Yahoo! in his arrest too. Be aware you clients of Yahoo!, … Continue reading

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Breaking Enigma

Thanks to Kriptópolis, I discovered the M4 project (wiki at Distributed Computing). This project begun last january and tries to break three messages cyphered with 4-rotor Enigma (Enigma M4) at North Atlantic in 1942. We can contribute to the work … Continue reading

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Ostrich behaviour (II)

After these two articles by JMG in Kriptópolis (in Spanish), and the past new in Slashdot, I think there are only two options: let’s get Firefox fork let’s use lynx It’s a pity one of great sucessful cases from free … Continue reading

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Ostrich behaviour

Once again, privative software, all-powerful enterprise made an absolute fool because a serious security bug. Last summer was Cisco, they sent employees to the DEF CON 13 to tear documentation about a bug in their routers OS. This week is … Continue reading

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You can’t see me :-P :-D

I’ve just discovered reading OpenBSD Journal about the release of Anonym.OS. If you think in Necromantux as your pocket toolbox, Anonym.OS is your pocket privacy: strong cipher, onion routing network with FSF’s Tor in an OpenBSD live-CD based. Good work, … Continue reading

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Quantum cryptography smashed?

I’ve just read Fernando Acero’s article in Kriptopolis about a new cryptography method based in thermal noise (Johnson noise) and Kirchoff laws. If investigators are right, we are in front of a cheaper, easier and probably more secure system than … Continue reading

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