A Peculiar Blog

I recently wrote about a Ransomware attack called GPcode that encrypts files on the victim’s computer and then offers to sell them a decryption key to get them back.
According to Kaspersky Labs, When GPcode does it’s thing, it first creates a copy of the file it’s going to encrypt. Once that encryption is done, [...]

Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari, is now claiming that TPM (Trusted Platform Module) chips that are installed on many new motherboards will make it impossible to pirate game software.
While it’s true that the TPM chips he’s talking about will present a seriously increased challenge, there’s no doubt at all in my mind that determined hackers, [...]

Recently I wrote about a project Modifying Thingamablog For Freenet 0.5 and while I have not yet been able to solve the puzzle of how to make the needed mods for the current version of Thingamablog, I have run into a problem with the templates.
Thingamablog uses tags within the templates that need to be converted [...]

After a LONG time without updates, version 1.2.5-Beta of Mixminion Message Sender is now available.
There’s been several changes / tweaks in the code (see the changelog below) and I’ve created a new distribution that includes Mixminion ready to run “out of the box”.
I have not yet been able to compile Win32 binaries of the latest [...]

One of the things that I love about firefox is that it’s so easy to customize the daylights out of it. Firefox Plugins are kinda like patio furniture, you can find something for nearly any situation or need and just like you can arrange patio furniture to suit your style, you can use the [...]

For those who’ve never heard of it, the name of this plugin sounds like it prevents all scripts, javascript, java and so on from running. That’s actually half true. Look at the description on the NoScript download page:
It allows JavaScript, Java and other executable content to run only from trusted domains of your [...]

First, I’ll quote the “official” announcement that appeared on the Freenet support list this morning:
Freenet is a global peer-to-peer network designed to allow users to publish and consume information without fear of censorship. To use it, you must download the Freenet software, available for Windows, Mac, Linux and other operating systems. Once you [...]

Japan’s four main Internet provider organizations have gotten together and worked out an arrangement where they’re going to be cutting Internet access to people using the “WinNy” P2P file sharing program.
Their big reason for this is the big battle against piracy. They’re claiming that most of the files being traded by the 1.75 million [...]

This is interesting. I’m just nicely getting used to Firefox 2 and all of a sudden I see reference to Firefox 3 in a blog post about it having a multi line location bar.
The screen shot looks interesting but what I didn’t find was a link to any site to get Firefox 3… I [...]

No, it’s not a website… well, ok, it is a website.. and a program. OpenOffice.org is a Freeware Open Source Software product that has all of the functionality of Microsoft Office with zero cost.
I first got it because I had to open an Excel spreadsheet and didn’t have Excel or Office to do it [...]