Researchers Find Way To Crack RSA

University of Michigan computer scientists have found a way to exploit a weakness in RSA security technology that is used to protect popular items such as media players, smartphones and e-commerce servers.

Stairway To Heaven by Led Zeppelin

Stairway To Heaven Played Backward Backmasking is when you play a song backward and there is a hidden message there. This flash file lets you play Stairway To Heaven by Led Zeppelin backward and forward. See what you hear and post your comments.

Truecrypt 6.2 and Ext4

Once again, I had to create a new TrueCrypt volume because I ran out of disk space on my old one. It was huge, so the entire process took almost an hour to complete. :-(

I decided to try the new ext4 filesystem and the following is what I did:

1. Start up TrueCrypt and create a volume using the GUI, without specifying a file system.

2. After the TrueCrypt volume has been successfully created, mount it using the TrueCrypt GUI. Ensure that under Options, the "Do not mount" option is checked.

3. In a terminal window, type: sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/mapper/truecrypt1

4. After the formatting is done, use the TrueCrypt GUI to dismount and remount the TrueCrypt volume.

You should now be able to start using your TrueCrypt volume.

How Nude and Sex Photos (or Videos) Get Leaked

Recently, there's been a spate of sex scandals involving leaked nude/sex photos and videos in Asia. How did these private photos and videos get out into the open?

Ways sensitive photos and videos get leaked:

1. The one in possession of the photos and videos posts them on internet forums or shares them on a P2P network.

2. The computer where the photos are stored is infected with malware. Some lamer then takes remote control of the computer over the Internet and transfers the files over to his computer.

3. The computer or device holding the nude or sex photos falls into someone else's hands, as in Edison Chen's case.

So far, no nude or sex photo that has (only) been passed into my hands has been leaked, simply because:

1. I do not use malware-infected Windoze computers to house important information. I see them as a huge security vulnerability, so much so that I've barred them from making any network connection with my Linux computers within my internal network.

2. I'm a nice girl. I'm not one of those creeps who like to boast about their sexual conquests or ownership of compromising photos of girls.

3. I'm the one who fixes my computers when they break. Remember, my name is not Edison Chen - it's Wei-Yee Chan. :P

For photos and videos that are "above top secret", I deploy a special cryptographic technique that I've formulated. I can't tell you any more as it's a secret. ;-)

But of course, cryptography isn't everything that security is about. I'll give you a good example. There's this perverted $in-gapore "IT pro" (in actual fact, a lamer) who asked me how his porn files got into the hands of a colleague when he was using TrueCrypt. Apparently, he did not know how on-the-fly encryption works, and he was sharing one of the decrypted folders over the internal network! *Rotfl* As I always say, even the "best" security hardware or software can prove useless in the hands of a moron.

To all the cam whores out there who have their photos with me (and no one else), rest assured that your photos are in good hands - I will continue to guard them with my life.

When it comes to the security of your photos and videos, I apply the following Gurkha motto:

"Death Before Dishonour."






Related:

Handbook of Applied Cryptography