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  • SpamAssassin 2010 bug
    From : https://secure.grepular.com/blog/index.php/2010/01/01/spamassassin-2010-bug/ I use SpamAssassin to filter the spam out of my incoming email. Last night I noticed that a legitimate email had a particularly high spam score. On further investigation I found that a rule named FH_DATE_PAST_20XX was triggering: * 3.2 FH_DATE_PAST_20XX The date is grossly in the future I...
    by Liz Quilty at January 2nd, 2010 at 10:01 am
  • Kindle DRM Cracked
    Looks like somebody had a little free time and decided to crack the kindle code. They have amusingly called the python code to do so ’swindle’ On a side note, here is an excellent website pointed out to me who does what with your privacy on e-book readers http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/12/e-book-privacy You can find the original code here http://pastie.org/753699 In...
    by Liz Quilty at December 23rd, 2009 at 02:12 pm
  • Apache modules to help your server
    libapache2-mod-bw – bandwidth limiting module This module allows you to limit bandwidth usage on every virtual host or directory or to restrict the number of simultaneous connections. The bandwidth control, for example, can be configured according to the criteria: origin of the connection, file extension, file size or user agent of the client. Example: LoadModule...
    by Liz Quilty at November 27th, 2009 at 09:11 am