Gödel and the Constitution I: The Fatal Contradiction

On 5 December 1947, Kurt Gödel, the man Time magazine called the last century’s greatest mathematician, had his citizenship hearing. One of Gödel’s witnesses was the man the same issue of Time called the century’s greatest person, Albert Einstein. … [...]

(Another) Win for Open Storage…

Wikipedia is one of the world’s most visited web sites (8th in the top 10, in fact), delivering an enormous breadth of content to an audience as vast as the internet. But Wikipedia’s evolved to become more than an on-line encyclopedia: they’ve bec… [...]

Stealing Files with Safari

Apple recently patched a vulnerability Nitesh “Leisure Suit” Dhanjani and I reported to them last week (CVE-2008-4216).  We had reported a similar vulnerability to Apple about two months ago (CVE-2008-3638).  In fact, the exploitation technique was so similar we held off releasing details until this 2nd patch was released. The basic gist of this vulnerability [...] [...]

Pwnichiwa from PacSec!

WOW, it’s been a busy couple of weeks!  I was in Tokyo last week for PacSec.  PacSec was a great time, there were some GREAT talks, and Dragos knows how to party!  I co-presented a talk entitled “Cross-Domain Leakiness: Divulging Sensitive Information and Attacking SSL Sessions” with Chris Evans from Google.  I’m curious if this [...] [...]

The Inside Story (Java, Microsoft and MySQL)

As consumer spending slows across the world, a variety of “brick and mortar” retailers are clearly feeling the impact. Foot traffic is slowing, and it’s getting harder to balance debt laden real estate portfolios and fickle consumer trends. For… [...]