Wednesday, July 2, 2008

random foo

go snort!!!... now i have something new i need to install and fiddle w/....

someone in the sec blog world was bitching about cell phones on planes a while back, and now we have some experimental foo to tell us mb it isn't bs... i have heard stories about interference w/ flight systems from electronics before, but nothing this substantial and focused (tho this isn't a flight system issue). i completely love how they took the issue and turned it into an attack vector in no time flat... wicked cool hacker thinking right there... the thing that sticks in my mind is that all these devices have this FCC sticker which says "this device is certified not to interfere or be vulnerable to interference", or something like that... wtf...

something i noticed while doing some web app work... i'm sure this is probably old hat to everyone, but my initial googling didn't find much... did you know that people are executing core os apps (DirectX) on servers w/ input from the client side???


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i had no idea... how many filters are there available? from what i see, this looks like the client is saying "execute this code and pass it this data"... isn't this something we all agree is probably looking to be attacked?

nonono, it's probably another feature...

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