A Peculiar Blog

There’s a piece on PCPro about “Windows Cloud” being released soon. There’s all the usual Microsoft company line stuff about how innovative and wonderful they are for pushing windows into “cloud computing”.. yada yada yada PHHHHBBBBBT!

I’ve been interested in p2p file sharing for some time. I quickly grew tired of things like Kazaa, gnutella, emule and bittorrent file sharing systems for a number of reasons. The biggest complaint was that just about anytime I wanted to download something, suddenly all of the sources would dry up and disappear, leaving me with an unfinished download.

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!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 [...]

It’s possible to do a lot of blogging without the use of links but sooner or later you’re going to want to include a link to some page you want to share or that is somehow relevant to something that you are writing about. I’ll also grant that by and large I think that [...]

Here’s an interesting note, According to an interview with John De Goes, president of N-BRAIN, open source has effectively killed the software developer tools market. Apparently, in today’s open source software world, there’s a lot of people that have become set in their ways when it comes to the development tools they use. [...]

[update: Since this was written there's been at least one solution to fix Gpcode problems
The folks at Kaspersky Labs have run into a new variant of a nasty little bugger known as Gpcode. This virus encrypts files on the infected computer and then demands payment for a key that will allow the victim [...]

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, [...]

I just read something that needs some attention. It’s a Wired.com piece called “Air Force Aims for ‘Full Control’ of ‘Any and All’ Computers“.
Essentially, they’re working on developing a suite of software tools that will give them access to and full control over any type of computer they encounter.
The whole point is to be [...]

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 [...]