Archive for November, 2008
Ontario Legislature passes Bill 85, paving the way for RFID (in)security?
4 Comments Published November 18th, 2008 in hacks, identity, life
Dr. Michael Geist writes that the Ontario Legislature just passed Bill-85. HUH? How come this is so media-silent?
Didn’t anyone stop to take clues from the US about the broadly-publicized RFID password vulnerabilities? As a security guy, I’m a little shocked. And a lot appalled.
brainstorming identity federation w/ mind maps
0 Comments Published November 12th, 2008 in federation, identity, mac, opensso, web 2.0I’ve always liked mind maps for brainstorming difficult concepts. I find they are a great way of logically expressing, formulating and grouping thoughts that are hard to articulate.
updated dns-323 bt download management scripts
25 Comments Published November 4th, 2008 in dns-323, hacks, unixI decided to modify my dns-323 scripts to keep my media organized.
Instead of monitoring /incoming for torrents, these scripts monitor /media/movies, /media/mp3 and /media/tv. when .torrent files are detected, they download to the appropriate /media subdirectory. transmission stops when the files are downloaded, and any rars are unpacked.
edit 4-dec-08: I think there’s a bug with […]
saml v2 sso, the opensso way
0 Comments Published November 3rd, 2008 in federation, identity, opensso, web 2.0Here’s a great detailed deployment example for something I’ve been working with a lot lately: SAML v2 Using Sun OpenSSO Enterprise 8.0
dns-323 broken itunes/web interface (mt-daapd)
4 Comments Published November 1st, 2008 in dns-323, hacks, unix from http://wiki.dns323.info/information:known_issues
Description: When using the iTunesServer WEB GUI, sometimes the GUI gets corrupted. After this, the iTunesServer WEB GUI can no longer be used.
Workaround: Telnet to the device and “cp /sys/crfs/default/mt-daapd.conf /etc/mt-daapd.conf”