Embracing the Art of Hacking

19 May 2004 - Michelle Delio [©Lycos, Inc.]

The idea that every hacker is an artist and every artist is a hacker isn't groundbreaking -- recent gallery and museum shows have focused on the link between art and coding -- but a new book by programmer Paul Graham gives the concept a fresh twist by advising hackers to improve their skills by borrowing creative techniques from other artists.

Billed as a guide into the minds and motivations of hackers, Hackers & Painters, due to be released by O'Reilly Media later this month, is a mixed bag of essays on topics ranging from aesthetics to high school hazing, spam to startups, Microsoft to money.

It doesn't quite live up to the promotional promise that "if you want to understand what hackers are up to, this book will tell you," since it's unlikely that the mildly hacker-curious will wade through four chapters on the pros and cons of programming languages. But, on the whole, the book does provide some fascinating reading for anyone who cares about making great things.

O'Reilly Online Catalog

http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,63506,00.html

Israel, Tel-Aviv, Second appearance of the anarcho-communist initiative in the huge peace demo: TWO STATES FOR TWO NATION - TWO STATES TOO MUCH

15 May 2004 - haifa_anarchists [©haifa_anarchists]

The Zionist left and center peace initiative, agree in principle to give back the territories occupied 1967... on condition they are exempted from the obligation for the 1948 refugees. This evening, they assembled people demo from all parts of the country to a huge demo. May be 200,000 who are 5% of the Israeli Jewry. The anarcho-communist initiative assembled about 25 people for distributing the leaflet appended below. Surprising was the absent of the animals rights anarchists of Ma'avak Ehad who had some animals rights action instead. We distributed all the 2000 copies of the leaflets we had, and at the end of the demo when the Zionist sang their nationalist anthem we shout "Zionism is racism".

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http://www.ainfos.ca/en/ainfos14205.html

Anarchist hip hop - The UnAmerican LP, album review

15 May 2004 - lynx [©lynx]

Since September 11, 2001; it seems like everyone is fighting to prove how loyal and patriotic they are. While the democrats and republicans argue about who can shout the Pledge of Allegiance the loudest, thousands of people of Arabic descent languor in "indefinite detention," and movements for social justice are relentlessly infiltrated and spied on, courtesy of the fittingly named “Patriot Act.” In George Bush’s America, might makes right; human rights are an unnecessary burden, and anyone who disagrees is "with the terrorists." Meanwhile, whether out of blind allegiance or fear of being declared "un-American," the vast majority of the population stays home, and stays silent. From the streets of San Francisco – the city that hosted some of the largest protests and direct-actions against George Bush’s illegal war in Iraq – there is now a new voice of opposition. With his boldest release to date, Bay-Area native and rap veteran Emcee Lynx has taken a clear stand against the climate of fear and repression.

http://www.ainfos.ca/en/ainfos14202.html

The release of the Honeynet Project's bootable CDROM

12 May 2004 - Rob McMillen [©Rob McMillen]

The Honeynet Project is excited to announce the beta release of the Honeywall CDROM. This is a bootable CDROM that contains all the tools and functionality needed to operate a honeywall, including data control, data capture and automated alerting. The CDROM is based on William Salusky's FIRE and is designed to act as an appliance: only those tools necessary to run the Honeywall are included on the CRDOM. The CDROM has a menu interface for faster installation, configuration, and maintenance; it also has advanced features that allow users to create customized .iso images. In addition, we are releasing the paper "Know Your Enemy: Honeywall CDROM." This KYE paper is an overview of the CDROM, how it works and is configured, issues and limitations, and several deployment examples.

Download Current Image:

http://seclists.org/lists/honeypots/2004/Apr-Jun/0065.html

Understanding TCP Reset Attacks, Part I

10 May 2004 - Jeremy Andrews [©Jeremy Andrews]

A vulnerability in TCP, the transmission control protocol, recently received some exposure in the media. Paul Watson released a white paper titled Slipping In The window: TCP Reset Attacks at the 2004 CanSecWest conference, providing a much better understanding of the real-world risks of TCP reset attacks.

To better understand the reality of this threat, KernelTrap spoke with Theo de Raadt, the creator of OpenBSD, an operating system which among other goals proactively focuses on security. In this article, we aim to provide some background into the workings of TCP, and then to build upon this foundation to understand how resets attacks work.

This is the first article in a two part series. The second article will look into how TCP stacks can be hardened to defend against such attacks. Toward this goal, we spoke with members of the OpenBSD team to learn what they have done so far, and what further plans they have to minimize the impact of reset attacks.

http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3072

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