Erik Noren of Peacock Groove Bikes explains in this video what a deep custom is and how it can affect your identity — make you less like every other “door knob”.
Deep Custom from Royal Antler on Vimeo.
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OpenSSL Fixes Six CVE
OpenSSL has announced fixes for the following six security flaws for versions 1.0.0f and 0.9.8s. The first is the notorious “extension of the Vaudenay padding oracle attack on CBC mode encryption”.
- DTLS Plaintext Recovery Attack (CVE-2011-4108)
- Double-free in Policy Checks (CVE-2011-4109)
- Uninitialized SSL 3.0 Padding (CVE-2011-4576)
- Malformed RFC 3779 Data Can Cause Assertion Failures (CVE-2011-4577)
- SGC Restart DoS Attack (CVE-2011-4619)
- Invalid GOST parameters DoS Attack (CVE-2012-0027)
The last CVE has an “original release date of 01/06/2012”, yet the OpenSSL security advisory was released “04 Jan 2012”.
Breaking Human Limits
Radiolab has a humorous hour of interviews about how humans can exceed their own limits by studying them and then breaking through (e.g. hacking the body, mind and knowledge)
On this hour of Radiolab: a journey to the edge of human limits.
How much can you jam into a human brain? How far can you push yourself past feelings of exhaustion? We test physical endurance with a bike race that makes the Tour de France look like child’s play, and mental capacity with a mind-stretching memory competition. And we ask if robots–for better or worse–may be forging beyond the limits of human understanding.
UCLA Breach of Encrypted Drive
Here’s an interesting breach notification case from 2011.
The UCLA Health System is notifying thousands of patients by mail that on Sept. 6, 2011, an external computer hard drive that contained some personal information on 16,288 patients was among a number of items stolen during a home invasion. Although this information was encrypted, the password necessary to unscramble the information was written on a piece of paper near the hard drive and cannot be located. There is no evidence suggesting that the information has been accessed or misused.
And now for the punch-line:
The individual whose hard drive was stolen, left employment at UCLA in July 2011.
It was their own personal hard drive with three years of data. Not sure if it’s worse to know that a current employee/user is so careless with a password to the encrypted data or that a former employee has retained encrypted data and a password to still decrypt it.
Kudos to UCLA for their reporting (a better response now than what we saw from them in 2008, which resulted in AB 211 and SB 541).
I suspect they will be looking at whether large data sets really need to be on personal removable equipment instead of remotely accessed on virtual desktops and how they should rotate/expire encryption keys. My guess is the user was given the encryption capability for the data so their key should have been revoked (rendering the password paper useless) when they left employment.