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National Internet filtering/censorship in Australia

Watch and share the video above of three of the worlds leading IT security experts talking about MANDATORY national internet filtering/censorship in Australia. This is the first test run of nationwide mandatory censorship in a western democracy. It cannot be allowed to succeed or to infect other countries. There is a war being waged once more against the open nature and collaborative power of the internet. The internet is a giant mirror held up to humankind. We should fix the root causes of our issues, rather than sweep the bits under the carpet and cripple the medium.

Interviewees:

Dan Kaminsky, Director
Pete Lindstrom, Director
Marcus Ranum, Chief Security Officer

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Funny :)

Ma chi siamo noi?

Noto grazie a Massimo questo post di Luca Sartoni (scoprendo per altro che siamo colleghi di universita`).
Stando a quello che scrive, direi che posso proclamare con orgoglio di essere un informatico — nel senso in cui Luca lo intende, ovviamente.

RSSfeeds++.

the MS07-017 Windows ANImated cursor exploit

Better late than never:
* the very cool Determina demo (flash) of metasploit using it
* the timeline from the guys at Arbor Networks

I would have posted the link to the third party patch, but it’s useless now.

Be wrong

Following links on the web today, I ended over this presentation given at TED by Sir Ken Robinson (you’re allowed to search on Google, I didn’t know him).
From the page: “he makes an entertaining (and profoundly moving) case for creating an education system that nurtures creativity, rather than undermining it.”
The whole video is here.
My favourite quote:

“[…] but what we do know is, if you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original”.

That made me think. I am, after all, scared to be wrong.