Just read an interview with Paul Vixie and David Conrad on BIND v9.x… it was somewhat amusing… The question that really did it for me was when they asked whether security was an important consideration in the rewrite (BIND v9 was a complete rewrite of BIND). Vixie said no but that security came from stability (which is true), Conrad said that yes it was an important consideration… Figures that Vixie would say that… he’s only been responsible for some of the most famous exploits in history… Good ol’ vixie crontab, y’all remember that? That’s the only exploit that’s been sucessfully run against me.

It was back about two years ago, when I gave a friend (more recently known as gated) an account on my linux box to help me learn/secure it. I was pondering how to give him access to what he needed, when he told me not to worry about it… I ran ‘who’ and sure enough, guess who was root. 😉

So what have I been doing? Well, I tried feeding e/irwin, but he wasn’t hungry so I took the mouse back. I read some security stuff, listened to a panel discussion on full disclosure, watched a small amount of tv, continued my strange taco cravings (which I haven’t mentioned but isn’t very exciting), didn’t draw another comic, and eventually I went to an unsucessful meeting about TOS with james, and hit the grocery store where I bought food I thought would combine with food I already had to make a complete meal… however I didn’t take into account that we didn’t have any syrup for my waffles, and I’ve spent too much time with the ex to eat that smoked ham I bought accidentally (thought it was smoked turkey, I zoned)… its not kosher, damnit.

At least I got coke.

Fido told me the other day that I shouldn’t use color in my comics cause they take too long to load… so I checked the file size and its the same as all the others… ‘course I haven’t really had a pure black and white comic… they’ve all had blue and red lines from the paper I draw on… I do want to look into shrinking file sizes, though… and reducing the palatte is probably the best way.

Finished reading Smashing the Stack for Fun and Profit by Aleph1, from phrack 49. I couldn’t even get his code to exploit a buffer in his own code… Man, I am the anti-script kiddie….