All posts by Blake Swopes

Blake Swopes is a disabled former Linux Systems Administrator from Southern California. Due to chronic pain, he can no longer spend much time on a keyboard, so this site has become largely archival.

August 27, 2000

OK, I’m just gonna say that I think the South African Parliament Toilet Cam is not where I want to go with this site. If you, for some strange reason, want to see it, its listed at Yahoo.

Of course, I must admit that I think it would be hilarious if there were a Congress Cam like that… I just wouldn’t really want to look. Not even if it were in the women’s room. Ugh, Feinstein. Bleh.

August 27, 2000

Bored bored bored bored bored bored… That’s pretty fun to type, by the way… Bored bored bored bored bored..

Oh, don’t open e-mail with the attachment FREE DONKEY PORN.VBS. This has been a public service announcement by BhodiSoft.com in association with SegFault.org (Even if segfault doesn’t know it).

August 27, 2000

OK, so here’s the deal… The NIC on shiva was working in full duplex. Since it is the only 10/100 NIC on my lan (all the others being just plain ol’ 10s) this was likely a problem. I moved my autosensing switch into the other room, and put the plain ol’ sohoware 10 hub back in here. All seems zippy. Very groovy. Problem solved (I think).

August 26, 2000

Oh, so we all did dinner at “Follow Your Heart” on Sherman Wy, last night. Its some hippie grocery store with a restaurant attached. Kinda a neat place. I have to agree with Travis on this one, lots of hot chicks at vegetarian restaurants. (That one, at least)

So, I spotted this woman who had a few simbols tattooed on her calf. I thought it was some hindu collection of symbols, until I realized the one on top was the symbol for pisces. I think I have a good idea for my tattoo now; the symbol for scorpio.

So, interesting people there. That woman with the tattoo was wearing this shirt that said “I *symbol for heart* Me”. Then there was the girl sitting next to us, telling her date about how she doesn’t drink coffee, she drinks cappuccino. Very ditsy. I was impressed by the level of dits.

August 26, 2000

OK, well I moved all my web content over to shiva, forwarded 8080, and shut down the web server on roto-router. There will be a few things down for a little while, mainly news and webalizer.

I’ll be able to put up some new content, though… I’m really going wild with the CGI and the SQL stuff, so that’ll be a large part of it. Also, there wont be 8080 vs 8081 issues, which I really didn’t like much. I wish there weren’t a port specification to deal with at all… Damn GTE.

Oh, for those of you who know about my paranoid log watching thingie, yeah I set it up on shiva, so I once again get to watch you all access the site live. And yeah, I’m forwarding all logging from roto-router through to shiva, so I won’t be missing anything. Neat, eh?

August 25, 2000

So potrero is coming up in a bit over about a week. I get to run off to San Diego county, wander around drunk without any pants, hitting on belly dancers… And three days with no technology! (Except the bathroom, must have indoor plumbing)

I still haven’t gotten any submissions for the BhodiSoft Challenge. Come on ladies, get those cameras a’ flashin’.

CA-2000-02 Vulnerability in Feature Common to Most Major Web Browsers

CUSERT® Advisory CA-2000-02 Vulnerability in Feature
Common to Most Major Web Browsers

This advisory is being published jointly by the CUSERT Coordination Center,
d0d-CERT, and the d0d Joint Task Force for Computer User Stupidity (JTF-CUS).

Original release date: April 23, 2000
Last revised: December 25, 2012

A complete revision history is at the end of this file.

Systems Affected

  • Most major web browsing software

Overview

A vulnerability has been discovered in most major web browsers which
provides access to the local hard disk.
This could result in fear, uncertainty, and doubt, which might cause numerous
technical support calls, and chest pains.

Continue reading CA-2000-02 Vulnerability in Feature Common to Most Major Web Browsers

CA-2000-01 Poor Error Handling in Password Authentication May Result in Authentication Failure

This advisory is being published jointly by the CUSERT Coordination Center,
d0d-CERT, and the d0d Joint Task Force for Computer User Stupidity (JTF-CUS).

Original release date: February 19, 2000

Last revised: December 25, 2012

A complete revision history is at the end of this file.

Systems Affected

  • ASCII based Password Authentication Modules

Overview

Poor error handling in many Password Authentication Modules which rely
on ASCII based data-input may result in a failure to authenticate users.
This could result in a denial of service to those users.

Continue reading CA-2000-01 Poor Error Handling in Password Authentication May Result in Authentication Failure