Anti-spam work is pure overhead
Here is something that is perhaps obvious, but still worth mentioning:all anti-spam work is in a sense pure overhead, in that it is time andresources spent fixing a situation to return it to the way it was beforethe spammers showed up. Anti-spam work does not actually improve emailin a broad sense, it just makes it as not-bad as possible.
(It is possible that anti-spam work will lead to techniques thatimprove email overall, perhaps better ways of automatically sorting and
How to tell when your bug reporting system is at its limits
There reaches a certain point in the life of many projects, especiallyopen source projects, when your bug reporting system just doesn't workany more. By 'doesn't work' I don't mean that your systems fall overand the software stops working; I mean that the system stops doing anygood and instead becomes the place where bug reports go to die. (Actualimportant bugs get reported and often tracked by different channels.)
So how can you tell if you've reached this point
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Although chances are that I am killing time by juggling with the alphabets, there are occasionally good lessons to learn. Trust me, the word game sparkles with amusing examples of life lesson. Think of the word "trust", and drop the letter t – alas,
How to exploit unsigned repository metadata
Courtesy of Don Kaminsky's slides for his Black Hat DNS talk, I wound up reading Attacks on PackageManagers ,which identifies a number of attacks that can be mounted if you canset yourself up as a package repository mirror for your favoriteLinux distribution. A number of the attacks are straightforward,but judging from the Slashdot discussion the dangers of unsignedrepository metadata are not as clear. So here is an attempt toexplain them simply.
Suppose that you are an attacker with a repository mirror (the papershows that
A workaround for the Python module search path issue on Unix
One of the little challenges with writing Unix programs in Python isthe search path problem. The natural structure of Python programs is tosplit functionality up into a bunch of modules and then import themall in the main program, but the natural structure of a Unix program isto put its binary into one directory (such as /usr/bin ) but all ofits helper bits into a second, completely different directory. So theproblem is: how is a Unix Python program supposed to find its modules?
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