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    This is a random mood construction I wrote after biking along the bay...

    The wind tore through the land, causing the million golden, fibers of grass to murmur in gossip. Seagulls hung lazily in the air, craning their necks into the wind, attempting to get ahead of the others. [...]
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    Posted: June 30, 2007, 9:08pm EDT
    by Sid Stamm

  • small victory for privacy

    "A U.S. appeals court in Ohio has ruled that e-mail messages stored on Internet servers are protected by the Constitution as are telephone conversations and that a federal law permitting warrantless secret searches of e-mail violates the Fourth Amendment."

    "ISPs, the ruling states, have 'mere custody' over the e-mail [...]
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    Posted: June 21, 2007, 1:04pm EDT
    by Sid Stamm

  • id theif pursuit

    The San Francisco Chronicle published an article about an ID-theft victim chasing her ID's thief. The story reads like a great chase scene in a novel! The victim chases the thief for about forty-five minutes through down-town San Francisco.

    She didn't really know what she would do if she [...]
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    Posted: June 15, 2007, 11:03am EDT
    by Sid Stamm

  • the internet is a reflection of self

    "The Internet, this place intended for sharing information, has become a place where we go to confirm beliefs we already have."
    (on "I read it on the Internet")

    "I'm not suggesting we put anonymous bloggers, or anonymous posters in jail..."
    (on improving accountability online by jailing originators of anonymous [...]
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    Posted: June 05, 2007, 2:34pm EDT
    by Sid Stamm

  • interesting visitors


    john edwards
    Originally uploaded by sidstamm One of the great benefits of working at Google is the flock of people who come to speak. Yesterday I listened to Michael Griffin, Administrator of NASA, talk about the [...]
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    Posted: May 31, 2007, 11:15am EDT
    by Sid Stamm

  • gsa?

    Deep Thought: I wonder if TSA checkpoint guards could use a Google Search Appliance to speed up their bag and pat-down searches. Surely since the GSA allows looking into files' contents, one could see which liquids are dangerous without requiring them to be in a 1-qt see-thru bag... [...]
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    Posted: May 25, 2007, 2:41pm EDT
    by Sid Stamm

  • towel day 07


    A tribute to Douglas Adams (1952-2001)

    What are you using your towel for? [...]
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    Posted: May 25, 2007, 12:33pm EDT
    by Sid Stamm

  • Maker Faire


    fireballs
    Originally uploaded by sidstamm. Since I'm out in the bay area for the summer (yay!), I'm taking advantage of the events like Maker Faire that are going on. A friend and I popped in [...]
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    Posted: May 21, 2007, 1:03pm EDT
    by Sid Stamm

  • 09 f9

    Two lessons of the day: (1) security by obscurity does not work for simple yet widely popular technologies and (2) if you create the encryption scheme and expect people to keep the key secret, make all the hardware that uses it too (a la Apple's FairPlay). [...]
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    Posted: May 02, 2007, 10:49pm EDT
    by Sid Stamm

  • fighting the blogger navigation bar

    When you host a blog on blogspot or use pretty much any template provided by blogger, an intrusive navigation bar appears at the top of the blog (login button, search box, blog this button, etc). While it's nice, it really prohibits integration with non-blog sites. For example, the blog [...]
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    Posted: April 12, 2007, 9:49am EDT
    by Sid Stamm

  • tax deduction

    I started my long journey through this year's very confusing tax situation today. I've got small amounts of income from a decent number of sources, most of which are as an independent contractor, so my work for this year's tax returns jumped threefold. I'm tempted to go to a tax [...]
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    Posted: February 27, 2007, 6:27pm EST
    by Sid Stamm

  • router attack by analogy

    One of the elements of drive-by pharming attacks (or really any attack that attempts to break into your home's router) is router profiling. Basically, once the IP of your router is discovered (say 192.168.0.1), the malicious script attempts to identify what type of router it may be. This can be [...]
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    Posted: February 26, 2007, 9:52am EST
    by Sid Stamm

  • drive-by pharming

    If you have not set a hard-to-guess password on your broadband router, do it now. There's a way attackers can compromise your router from the inside using simple JavaScript.

    The basic idea is this: you visit a malicious website and it distracts you. While you're distracted (playing a game, [...]
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    Posted: February 16, 2007, 8:36am EST
    by Sid Stamm

  • storm predictions (update)

    Yesterday I made some storm predictions... so far, here are the results:

    My car will freeze shut and to the ground
    Kinda. Well, the car froze shut, but with a big stick I was able to crack a door open and get into the car. The hood [...]
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    Posted: February 14, 2007, 9:07pm EST
    by Sid Stamm

  • storm predictions

    My predictions for the Feb. 13-14 winter storm in Bloomington, IN:

    • My car will freeze shut and to the ground

    • Trees will fall over (they are currently caked with snow/sleet/ice)

    • Power lines will sag and some older poles will droop or fall causing outages

    • When we dip below freezing [...]
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    Posted: February 13, 2007, 11:16am EST
    by Sid Stamm

  • bad security assumption

    Good assumption:
    My domain (DNS) name is not safe from forgery. Bad people might "hijack" it and use it to pretend they are me.


    Bad assumption:
    If my domain name is hijacked or spoofed, then I lose control of all the subdomains too. This means that if someone else [...]
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    Posted: February 12, 2007, 12:07pm EST
    by Sid Stamm

  • despicable rebate service

    I bought something a while ago that was half-price after rebate. Anyway, proud of my purchase I promptly filed the rebates and went on my way. One of the rebate checks still has not arrived, so I called the company (Parago) today.

    After navigating through an annoying options tree, [...]
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    Posted: February 09, 2007, 10:55am EST
    by Sid Stamm

  • registry cleaner?

    I installed some Mac OS X updates today, and after they finished I was asked to restart my computer... so being the faithful computer user I am, I did. When I brought FireFox back up after rebooting, an advertisement for Registry Cleaner popped up warning me [...]
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    Posted: January 30, 2007, 3:25pm EST
    by Sid Stamm

  • fellowships, anyone?

    I think it's impossible to get a graduate studies fellowship as a 4th year, White, Male, Computer Science PhD student. [...]
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    Posted: January 15, 2007, 7:40pm EST
    by Sid Stamm

  • top 2006 web hacks

    Note to self: Look at all the web hacks Grossman posted in the full list contained in his Top Ten post.

    Lots of dirty tricks there. [...]
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    Posted: January 02, 2007, 10:28am EST
    by Sid Stamm

  • dynamic pharming

    I just learned what DNS pinning is and how it can be defeated when a domain is associated with multiple DNS A records.

    The basic idea of DNS pinning is that when your browser loads something from x.com, it caches the DNS A record for x.com (the IP) and [...]
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    Posted: December 17, 2006, 9:27pm EST
    by Sid Stamm

  • public domain DRM

    Most current DRM revolves around the idea that each person should be required to pay for their right to view/use some protected media.  The rights may be temporary or permanant, and may or may not be transferrable.  Ideally, a DRM system should be able to restrict who, what, when, and [...]
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    Posted: December 15, 2006, 10:05am EST
    by Sid Stamm

  • newcomb's paradox

    a clairvoyant being presents you with two boxes: one is open, and has $1000 in it.  The other one is closed, and you're told it contains either nothing or $1,000,000.  

    The being asks you to choose to take either both boxes, or just the closed one.  He claims (due [...]
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    Posted: December 14, 2006, 9:00pm EST
    by Sid Stamm

  • progenetorivox

    This is one of the funniest videos I've seen in a long time:
    Drugs I need

    Cheers to the folks at jibjab.com who keep coming out with hilarious animations! [...]
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    Posted: December 12, 2006, 11:16pm EST
    by Sid Stamm

  • this is our country

    There's a new Chevy ad that I find interesting.  The song in the background keeps repeating "This is Our Country," meanwhile the camera pans for what seems like ever showing people erecting a long barbed wire fence.  

    Take away message: to show you this is OUR country, we're going [...]
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    Posted: December 12, 2006, 2:09pm EST
    by Sid Stamm
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