Spam Round-up For February 28, 2008
Well, I skipped a weekend, or two. I lost track somewhere. So that means I have a pretty big list of spam subject titles to list today. I’m going to play with the format a little and see if I can make it prettier. Everyone likes pretty spam, yes?
- Boner
- The person was a good dancer.
- Your size does matter.
- Prove your manliness!
- Ram her like never before with your new, enlarged battering ram.
- There are only a few days left. Are you ready? (She is)
- How much do men really talk about bad experiences in bed? [x2]
- Ram your new found longer gun into her and hear her moan.
- When unzipping means unleashing a monster… watch ladies ooh and aah with delight.
- 15 Ways to Give Her an Orgasm
- Achieve all your dreams
- You have the winning ticket to a larger manhood
- Achieve all your dreams of super $!ze!
- Bigger, better, mightier means getting laid more
- Who says wishes cant come true? [x2]
- Great nights with your woman are now possible.
- Kick up your mojo another notch with this huge thang…
- True masculinity is not complete without a big rod
- Achieve true manhood and become a real man by clicking here
- Attracting the girls will be easy with THIS
- Your bulge never felt so big
- Make her cry in pleasure when you enter her deep and full.
- Be the man she always wanted. [x2]
- You won’t believe the amount you can grow.
- Thrust DEEPER into her with your new instrument
- Amazing growth in just a few short weeks can be yours.
- You have the potential to be really BIG.
- Always wanted to shaft your shaft deeper into her? Now you can.
- You will feel GOOD with your bigger tool. [x2]
- Women LOVE men with huge lovesticks - is yours large enough?
- it’s normal to be ashamed if you have a small sch1ong, but CHANGE THAT around today
- Your best present to her is your long hard rod.
- Crap:
- Cheap stylish repl!c@s for you and your folks!
- repl!c@s as a gift is a great combination of low price and quality!
- Drugs:
- Premier meds
- Nice place to buy cheap meds
- Gain your so desired well-being
- Regain your natural health
- Check out the most attractive medical offer
- journalese
- serializable
- astronauts
Three categories this time around. We’ve added ‘Drugs’ to the list along with ‘Crap’ and ‘Boner’. Although the items listed under ‘Drugs’ could also be listed under ‘Boner’ since they’re advertising Viagra and other boner enhancing drugs, I opted for a separate category as they’re also trying to sell other pharmaceuticals.
There’s Trouble Afoot At The Circle K
Source … Local 6
Cops and robbers. Cowboys and Indians. Whatever the name, both are childhood games that keep kids entertained for hours on end and teach that being good is better than being bad. Unfortunately for Justin MacGilfrey of South Daytona, it taught him that the best way to rob a convenience store is with a finger gun.
Although the clerk didn’t take him seriously and chased him off, MacGilfrey could have gotten away with attempted robbery if the Daytona Beach police had not been called to a disturbance. His last contribution to the entire act was admitting to the robbery attempt but blaming it on a second party for forcing him into it and threatening him with a weapon if he didn’t.
For the sake of MacGilfrey’s dignity, we can only hope he, too, wasn’t threatened with a finger gun.
pew pew pew…
Diebold Leaks John McCain’s Win In 2008 Election
Source … The Onion
Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early
Fuck Grapefruit
Source … xkcd
Disk Encryption Hacked Scary Easy
Source … Center For Information Technology Policy at Princeton University
Disk Encryption has been touted as the ultimate in securing a computer, especially laptops which are prone to being lost or stolen. The theory is that once a machine is turned off, encryption “activates” and renders the hard drive inaccessible. Without entering the correct keyword or accessing a separate key file,
the hard drive would essentially be nothing more than a paperweight. However, things rarely seem so simple.
Because your computer needs to access the encrypted hard drive while powered on, the access key remains resident in its memory. The natural assumption is that when you power off your computer, its memory flicks off like a light. Researches at Princeton have shown that DRAM, which is used in the majority of computers today, fades off over the course of a few minutes. If one were to cool the ram down to a much lower temperature, that power fade can extend far longer than a few minutes. So what does this mean in terms of encryption?
Since the ram takes longer to power down, the encryption access keys remain in the memory. With some simple computer engineering, one could transfer the ram to another computer, or create a separate device, in order to read the contents of the memory while it still contains the encryption access key.
This does, however, depend on a few assumptions. The first and foremost is power. While the DRAM does take a few minutes to fade, it still does power down. So there is a significantly short window of opportunity. While you can slow the process of the fade down, one would need physical access to the ram in order to do so. The trick would be to keep a system powered on until one were ready to hack into it.
The second is access to the hard drive. With bios and boot loader passwords, simply getting to the prompt to enter the encryption access key could be troublesome. One would have to physically remove the hard drive and place it into another machine. Not that this approach is out of line considering that the machine is already in the hands of a hacker. If they were lucky enough not to encounter a bios password, they could
just have the machine boot from an external device such as an USB key
or hard drive.
Laptops with battery power are certainly easy targets for this. Many people are known to leave a laptop powered on and unattended in a public place. A thief could easily have a setup in car nearby, or even a few minutes away. But how does one attempt this with desktop? Desktop machines rarely have any kind of battery backup, and when they do it certainly doesn’t last long. Some desktops use more electricity than all other home appliances combined. How do you keep the power in the DRAM long enough to perform the hack? Answer: WiebeTech HotPlug. The web page clearly states:
How to circumvent Whole Disk Encryption
The key: Do not allow the encryption to activate. Low level encryption such as Vista’s Whole Disk Encryption (WDE) can halt an investigation. Use HotPlug and Mouse Jiggler to prevent encryption technologies from activating. If you can carry away the computer while it’s still logged in, you maintain full access to the hard drive.
That statement assumes to keep a password screensaver from activating. But as the researchers have shown, one needs to only supply power to the DRAM long enough to get the desktop somewhere to perform the hack. The trick is moving a desktop without disrupting it’s power source and the web site even has links to videos showing how they perform this kind of a seizure using their HotPlug device. Designed for Government and Forensic customers, it still available for sale to general public.
So does this mean disk encryption is no longer viable? Well ask yourself this: do you still lock the door to your house as you leave knowing full well that windows are easily broken and door locks can be picked? You can never make anything completely theft proof, but you can significantly increase the resistance to theft. A thief is going to look for the easy targets that take the least amount of time. Unless you’re carry a laptop with detailed maps to untold fortunes, a thief most likely won’t take the time to break into your computer to see where you shop online. Passwords and financial information is easier to get from online attacks anyway through phishing and trojan viruses.
Unless you’re a government employee, corporate executive, or under investigation for illegal activities, you’re not going to garner enough attention to go through the work of circumventing your disk encryption. However, you should still understand the concept and know that it can be defeated. Don’t assume that your disk encryption is the holy grail of protection and take extra steps to ensure the safety of your computer and its data.
- Never leave your laptop unattended.
- Set the bios’s boot password. Without it, the computer’s operating system will never boot.
- Use a screensaver that requires a password to deactivate and have it activate within a few minutes of inactivity.
- Use a login to the operating system, even if you’re the sole user.
- If you run a boot loader like LILO or GRUB, set a boot password. Every password prompt means one extra lock in the chain. And keep the passwords different.
- For desktop security, power down when not in use. By the time anyone thinks of stealing it, the memory ought to have been cleared.
- Never advertise your security measures. If they don’t know the encryption exists, they may not be prepared for it.
- Hide your typing when entering passkeys/passwords. Many passwords are hacked by looking over the target’s shoulder or video recording the finger movements over the keyboard.
Ubuntu 8.10-ish, the Intrepid Ibex, Announced
As Ubuntu 8.04, Hardy Heron, gets its last bug tweaks before its official LTS release this April, the dev team is already planning for the next interim release slated for October 2008, Intrepid Ibex. An ibex is a long, curl-horned mountain goat found in Eurasia, and North and East Africa. This new 8.10 release will also commemorate Ubuntu’s fourth anniversary of its first release of version 4.10.
If you’re lucky enough to find yourself in Prague between May 19-23rd, you can attend the Ubuntu Developer Summit that will be taking place there to set down the blueprint for Ibex. Their main focal point will be the “user interaction model”, re-engineering it so that it works just as well on a subnotebook as it does on a high-end workstation. They also mention increasing notebook performance with a particular focus on increasing it’s ability to access broadband internet at all times and wherever you tend to be.
With the advent of the subnotebooks, like the Asus Eee PC and the much anticipated Everex Cloudbook, it sounds like Canonical wants to make Ubuntu a viable alternative in which to power them.
Spam Recount For February 17, 2008
Another week and more spam.
- Click here for Guaranteed Growth [Boner]
- Swanky replica watches is a great gift idea for this holiday season [Swanky Fake Crap]
- No longer want to be shy about your item? [Shy Boner Syndrome]
- The zit zapping trick that works overnight! [Tiny Zit-sized Boner]
- Women who love to get it on reveal why their sack sessions are so hot! [Boner Sack]
- There are only a few days left. Are you ready? (She is) [x2] [Boner For Valentine's Day]
- Add length, thickness and girth to your manh00d in just a few short weeks [x2] [Too Short B00ner]
- Your chick will not settle for less, why should you? [x2] [Chicks Like Boner]
- Thick, long, and rock hard erect1ons, EVERY SINGLE NIGHT - thanks to this miracle solution [x2] [Hard Rocking Boner]
- Ever since I started taking this, my girl can’t get her hands or mouth off my d1ck [Clingy Chicks Love Boner]
- The only pen1s enlargement solution that guarantees growth, 100% or your money back. [100% Boner]
- I love how large my c0ck looks now even when flaccid - the results are simply unbelievable. [Limp Boner] *
- When SMALL is a dirty word… [Dirty Boner]
- Show everyone the DIFFERENCE [Deaf Boner]
- Be the king of your bedroom [Elvis Boner]
- Live the life of a casanova when you add 3 inches to an already massive sch1ong [Nova, As In Casanova Boner]
- underfur [Furvert Boner]
- Tired of losing your erect1on halfway during sex? Here is the answer to all your woes. [Woeful Boner]
- thriller [Thriller Boner]
- Those locker room stares will be for the right reason [Staring Boner]
In our Boner vs. Fake Crap contest, Boner wins 23 to 1.
* I was going to link to LimpDick.com, but thought that too much of a shock.
$140,000 Hot Wheels Car
Source … Gizmodo
To commemorate the 40th anniversary of Mattel’s toy car line, they unveiled an $140,000 23-carat encrusted Hot Wheels car. The toy was made by a celebrity jeweler, Jason of Beverly Hills, using 2700 blue, black, and white diamonds placed on the car’s 18-kt gold frame. Rubies are used as the car’s taillights. If that wasn’t enough, the case that holds the car is also encrusted with its own 40 white diamonds to signify each year of the anniversary. The toy was unveiled by Nick Lachey and will be auctioned off to benefit his chosen charity of Big Brothers Big Sisters.
Lunar Eclipse On Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Source … NASA
The next lunar eclipse is about to take place this Wednesday. The next won’t take place until 2010. The eclipsing will begin around 8:43pm EST with totality taking place at 10:01pm. The moon will continue to darken to the mid-point at 10:26pm with totality ending at about 10:51pm. The moon will continue to be partially eclipsed until about 12:09am.
Unlike a solar eclipse, the moon will not blacken. Because of the atmosphere that surrounds Earth, light from the sun gets stretched around us and casts a reddened glow to its shadow because of dust in the air. Because the dusty air is unpredictable, the shadow may range from an orange to a deep blood red. Some observers of past lunar eclipses have noted a turquoise outline to the red shadow due to the ozone. Look for it near the start and end of totality.
All of South America, most of North America, and parts of western Africa and western Europe will be able to see the eclipse in its entirety. Our Aussie, Japanese, and Korean friends will have to sit this one out. For a complete set of maps and timetables for viewing, see this link here.
Paper Trail Leads Further Back Than You Might Want
Source … EFF
You may not know this, but your color laser printer may be embedding codes into your printouts without your knowledge. The US government has quietly convinced printer manufacturers to have their products print codes in light yellow ink that identifies the model, make, and quite possibly the owner.
The main idea behind the initiative was to help trace counterfeiters of US currency. Unfortunately, there’s been no judicial oversight over the use, or abuse, of such knowledge.
EFF is asking for volunteers to send in test sheets to help compile a list of printers that do or do not add identifiable codes to the paper.
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