Posts for June 2006
Secure Banking 101, Take 2.
22nd June, 2006
Some of you may remember that it was brought to the light before, the in-security of some password entering schemes, when the Westpac moved to their new system.
When, it looks like another is to follow a similar path, and maybe they have gotten it right.
It seems Credit Union Australia, on the 1st of July, will move over to a new system of where you can enter in your password either by the keyboard, or via their "Scramble Pad". Unlike the Westpac attempt, you can still enter with your keyboard if you so wish. Hopefully this is how it will stay. I have fired an email off to them to find out.
On the down side, they fail to get password security right, with the fact that passwords are only numeric, and only up to 6 digits long.
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Add CommentDisturbing songs of 2006
Well, if the words to the song, are really what they have been translated to be, then this is probably going to be one of the most disturbing songs of all time.
Boten Anna Music Clip with English Subs
Who would've thought an IRC Bot would have a song written about it.
Edit: Unfortunately, the words are real, and so is the song. Thanks for confirming the fear Wikipedia.
Google has a memory loss
Looks like one of Google's Datacenters has had a brain explosion.
Click for a large version.
Random blogging session
Figured that I may as well make a blog post, the night before my first exam, as I hadn't done so in over a month. The content of the post, I am making up as I go, so lets see.. what has happened lately:
I upgraded this WordPress install from 2.0.2 to 2.0.3 - Everything seems to be continuing to run perfectly fine.
I am considering changing a Debian Stable (sarge) box to either Ubuntu or Debian Unstable. Or possibly just changing it over with a reinstall to Gentoo. Been putting all of it off, as I don't know how well the Debian Stable to whatever dist-upgrade will go, and a reinstall means reconfiguring the box, something that I should do after exam period anyway. If any one has any HOWTO's or information on the dist-upgrade stuff, would be great if you could leave a comment or email me. (or even if you have done it previously and it worked fine!)
I have started work on some IRC related stuff in Python. Shall put it up on a svn/bzr repo as soon as the above is worked out.
Work has been interesting, especially given the fact I have been working at a number of locations. Should be interesting when the Ashes tickets go on sale to the general public on Monday (19th).
That's enough for now - More once exams are over and the above is resolved.