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Ooh! Headshot! Linus Torvalds about OpenBSD Team.

Source: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/706600/
On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> So as far as I’m concerned, “disclosing” is the fixing of the bug. It’s
> the “look at the source” approach.
Btw, and you may not like this, since you are so focused on security, one
reason I refuse to bother with the whole security circus is that I […]

Capture memory under Win2k3 or Vista with win32dd!

Actually, win32dd is the only 100% open-source tool to capture memory under Win2k3 or Vista. Even, if ManTech released a similar tool yesterday, but some part of the source code (e.g. driver source code) are missing. Then, I decide to release mine as a full open-source project under GPL3 license.
The main difference between ManTech tool […]

BlackHat Las Vegas Briefing 2008

In November 2007, Nicolas and I presented “Enter SandMan” in Tokyo at PacSec during its development phase. You can get the materials we used for this lecture here in English and here in Japanese.
Some months later, an alpha version formally called 1.0.080226, of Sandman Framework has been released as an open source project. — […]

Google Summer of Code & NT debugging Puzzler #3

As you probably know, Google launch every year the Summer of Code. Yesterday, Google published official 2008 result and I’ll be part of the Samba Team. My work is to implement compression functions into Samba.
Microsoft Advanced Windows Debugging Team published their third puzzler: Matrix Edition #3 . It looks they’ll publish one puzzler per week. […]

Few words about Microsoft interoperability initiative.

As you probably know, Microsoft released last month several thousands pages of documentation about office file format and Windows protocols.
It means numerous hundreds(thousands?) of functions/algorithms documentation and pseudo-code. But, are these pseudo-function right? It looks not.
While I was reading [MS-DRSR]: Directory Replication Service (DRS) Remote Protocol Specification, I was a bit […]