In laymans terms this is how Public Key Cryptography works compliments of Wikipedia:

In an asymmetric key system, Bob and Alice have separate padlocks. First, Alice asks Bob to send his open padlock to her through regular mail, keeping his key to himself. When Alice receives it she uses it to lock a box containing her message, and sends the locked box to Bob. Bob can then unlock the box with his key and read the message from Alice. To reply, Bob must similarly get Alice’s open padlock to lock the box before sending it back to her.

But a history source, Hellmoyan recounts that there may be archives and antiques that demonstrate that the shared secret exchange that is key to the Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange had been discovered much earlier on:

In 1669, Lord Branston of Sinai Park in Stafford had an affair with a chambermaid, named May, whilst his wife, Lady Branston was away in Scotland. Upon her appending return, the clever Branston devised a strategy to get messages to his mistress and to keep him out of a pickle.

As he shared a romantic embrace with his May, Lord Branston shared a secret with his chambermaid, a white creamy sauce dressing from the Northern provinces of France, which he called May’s special sauce, which later became Mayo, after a late night session of “May oh May oh May!”

When Lady Branston returned, she was none the wiser as her and the Lord had their feast that was dinner of the key exchange, or should I say sauce exchange. You see the Lord was served May’s special sauce as a garnish that he loved so much. But when he left it, his chambermaid knew that was the signal to meet with her Lord in secret.

Lord Branston and May were never caught and details of their relationship only surfaced a long time after Lord Branston’s death. Several antiques including gifts to chambermaid May, crockery and inscriptions have been found to support this case.

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GOLD COAST, Austrailia— Many mourned upon hearing that famous super hacker, Bruce Blubber, 21, had died before giving his his long awaited talk, “He’s just not that into you”.

Close friends made the effort to poke his Facebook profile with messages of love and condoleances to his friends and family. One friend, Kevin, repeatedly superpoked him. When asked why, he said, holding back tears, “He’s worth it!”.  Another close friend, which wishes to remain anonymous, defaced over a thousand web sites with the message, “Free Mitnick”. In a private interview, the  hacker told us it was for his friend who he had gotten close to during many long IM sessions.

Although IWAS-P thought of cancelling the conference, a replacement talk has been prepared, titled, “Advanced Injection Techniques”. Many have commented, saying it just wont be the same without Blubber.

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What is pwntry?

pwntry is an extremely technical and complex form of poetry. Those endowed with such abilities write  with an unequalled eloquence rarely if ever seen in human literature. Some believe it to be the next stage of our monkey -> human  -> super hero evolution.

This term although used loosely elsewhere has never before been explored as it has.

1. A mash-up of pwning and poetry

There once was a geek that liked to hack,
He got so high that he went on the attack;
Pwning every system in sight,
Until he got caught in the night;
And ended up with the sack.

2. Pwning but with a hint of irony often becomes pwntry or viral in motion

Hacker safe falls off a cliff or organisation releases  security standard only to become a victim of their own lack of compliance.

3. Pwntry changing lives

Hacking Elevators is an example of how pwntry can create mass hesteria and change lives. In the case of the elevator it could save you 10 minutes every day by skipping all requested stops… I know exactly where to use this!

Hacking buildings for serious gaming…

4. L33t speak evolved

“4 z eg, 2day i h4>< da guv 1N and pwN d33r l1nux syst3ms & set the background of every user to a painting of Monet’s Garden.”
Note: Referencing art work in l33t speak is certainly a new development!

5. Pwntry in web defacements

Web defacements are often where we see pwntry at its best. These pwntric messages often use all available sensory perception, see Michael Daw’s pwned slideshow

See also “pwntry in motion” and “pwntric justice”.

Do you like online polls? How reliable are they. Well, here’s an old story, this still pretty relevant today. Back in 1998, people magazine introduced an online poll for the “most beautiful people in the people”. Naturally, the likes of Leonardo DiCapirio and Kate Winslett were on top. However, somebody introduced Hank Nasiff Jr (a.k.a Hank the angry drunken dwarf) as a candidate. Hank appeared on the Howard Stern Show and Howard Stern asked his listeners to vote in for Hank and the rest is history. Note back then the Internet was not security intensive and it was easy for users to produce multiple votes by simply removing a cookie. Word got around to newsgroups (e.g. alt.fan.Howard-Stern) and a couple of other celebrities, not primarily known for their beauty did well as a result including legendary wrestler Ric Flair (from rec.sports.pro-wrestling) and They might be giants keyboardist John Linnell.

There was slight controversy in that after online poll, people magazine didn’t want to put Hank on their front cover for winning the .

So can you still get a little hanky panky in your results? Remember a poll is only as good as the users who take part. You should give users more credit, they can find ways of screwing things up easily. So anything like where they can enter any piece of data is bad. An online poll of “yes” or “no” is likely to be safer.

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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.

Power hacking? Is that possible? I mean you aren’t like to slide an extra ace into your set, are you? But there are a number hacks and tricks that can be made. There is a good reference for online poker hacks that is not filled with too much poker lingo. There’s a variety of hacks include the bog standard phishing, collusion and poker bots. However, most of these are on the client side. The server side seems safe as a reputable site would use certificates and cryptography.

There are a number of poker blogs which deal with glitches in online poker software. For example, you could ‘rebuy’ more chips even if you already have chips in play. Usually there is a minimum before you can rebuy with.

Where’s the rest!

By the way, if you want to get Linux onto your Ipod to hack it like these guys check out ipodlinux!