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Just stumbled across a rather interesting website:

"Our goal is to bring back Hacking and Phreaking to the UK and to fight for the Freedom of Information."

The Hackers Voice website is definately one to keep an eye on.

As an enlightened, modern parent, I try to be as involved as possible in the lives of my six children. I encourage them to join team sports. I attend their teen parties with them to ensure no drinking or alcohol is on the premises. I keep a fatherly eye on the CDs they listen to and the shows they watch, the company they keep and the books they read. You could say I’m a model parent. My children have never failed to make me proud, and I can say without the slightest embellishment that I have the finest family in the USA.

Two years ago, my wife Carol and I decided that our children’s education would not be complete without some grounding in modern computers. To this end, we bought our children a brand new Compaq to learn with. The kids had a lot of fun using the handful of programs we’d bought, such as Adobe Photoshop and Microsoft’s Word, and my wife and I were pleased that our gift was received so well. Our son Peter was most entranced by the device, and became quite a pro at surfing the net. When Peter began to spend whole days on the machine, I became concerned, but Carol advised me to calm down, and that it was only a passing phase. I was content to bow to her experience as a mother, until our youngest daughter, Cindy, charged into the living room one night to blurt out: “Peter is a computer hacker!”

The 10 danger signs!

1. Has your son asked you to change ISPs?
2. Are you finding programs on your computer that you don’t remember installing?
3. Has your child asked for new hardware?
4. Does your child read hacking manuals?
5. How much time does your child spend using the computer each day?
6. Does your son use Quake?
7. Is your son becoming argumentative and surly in his social behaviour?
8. Is your son obsessed with "Lunix"?
9. Has your son radically changed his appearance?
10. Is your son struggling academically?

I encourage all parents to read through this guide carefully. Your child’s future may depend upon it. Hacking is an illegal and dangerous activity, that may land your child in prison, and tear your family apart. It cannot be taken too seriously.

References:

• adequacy.org

I have been pre-occupied the last 2 weeks, developing an automated security framework for Technika.

Technika is a Firefox plugin that myself and pdp was toying with some months back. The original idea behind this project was to provide independent self-contained security tools based on JavaScript which can be loaded and executed from the browser. TS Framework v1.0 is almost ready for release.

If you haven’t already checked it out, get more info here.

Also, I just finished a write up on some of my thoughts around automated web application tools, now that I’ve started writing one. It’ll most likely be published on GNUCITIZEN tomorrow.