Operation n

As someone keeps saying at work, it’s all about perceptions. Perceptions you are actually doing work… etc
This security columnist seems to think there’s a few egos about. I don’t about egos but there are definitely some characters about.

IMHO Hackers are perceived on the whole in a slightly negative light. A bit awkward, a bit unfriendly and bit lacking in the social skills department. For some people that may be the case. And what the columnist says in his article is for the most part fairly accurate. But hopefully that is changing, you can’t hide away from the social accept. And I am not referring to online social networks. If you want to get anywhere in life, business, work, you have to deal with people. It is noted that a lot of jobs have to deal with clients and customers (well the big jobs anyways). Unless you are absolute l33t in programming and hacking (which I don’t profess to be, coz i iz a n00b!), you are going to have to sellout a tad and try (as someone once called it…) pimping your brain. Some social skills are needed and plus eventually you can do social engineering too, haha!

Great SQL Injection comic strip from the guys over at xkcd:

Original .

Ethics are defined as:

Ethics (from the Ancient Greek ethikos, the adjective of ethos “custom, habit”), a major branch of philosophy, is the study of values and customs of a person or group. It covers the analysis and employment of concepts such as right and wrong, good and evil, and responsibility.

• What is acceptable vulnerability disclosure? Is vulnerability disclosure good at all?
• Is releasing security research publicly really beneficial to the security at large?
• Who benefits the most from the security tools, research and discussions?
• How do governments view public disclosure of vulnerabilities and research?
• How do corporate bodies view public disclosure of vulnerabilities and research?

I was quietly minding my own business and encounter this whilst searching some stuff for one of my favourite shows.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=tony+almeida+is+god

Underneath the first link, “ALMEIDA IS GOD [dot] COM // your first 24 fan resource”, there is a note.
It says “This site may harm your computer.”

What’s going on here? Previously (on 24), I was able to visit that website! Anyhow Google do censor (or make a note of harmful) stuff.

I’ll sit on the fence whether this is a good or bad thing. But it did stop me visiting the site…
I lie I just visited it, it seems fine. Wait I remember why it may possibly be harmful. A lot of popular sites randomly pop up some software trying to install helpful pc scanners, which of course are bollo^H^H^H^H^Hspyware.
Anyhow I just checked with yahoo and well no mention of the site being harmful. So google censoring tactics seem new…

I picked up this thing about facestalking. You can view other people’s pictures and see what they are up to. However, it does require the person to be an "added friend". Or does it? It looks like you can view other people’s profiles without friending them. If you go to ‘privacy’ and then ‘poke, message and friend request’, you can see who can see your profile.

I’d be very careful who you befriend as this man found out the hard way.

So much so, it looks some workplaces are barring them.