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  • toxy

    toxy is a fully programmatic and hackable HTTP proxy to simulate server failure scenarios and unexpected network conditions. It was mainly designed for fuzzing/evil testing purposes, when toxy becomes particularly useful to cover fault tolerance and resiliency capabilities of a system, especially in service-oriented architectures, where toxy may act as intermediate proxy among services. toxy allows you to plug in poisons, optionally filtered by rules, which essentially can intercept and alter the HTTP flow as you need, performing multiple evil actions in the middle of that process, such as limiting the bandwidth, delaying TCP packets, injecting network jitter latency or replying with a custom error or status code.

    (tags: toxy proxies proxy http mitm node.js soa network failures latency slowdown jitter bandwidth tcp)

  • Drone Oversight Is Coming to Construction Sites

    Grim Meathook Future

    (tags: grim-meathook-future drones work panopticon future sacramento building-sites)

  • grsecurity

    Open source security team has had enough of embedded-systems vendors taking the piss with licensing:

    This announcement is our public statement that we’ve had enough. Companies in the embedded industry not playing by the same rules as every other company using our software violates users’ rights, misleads users and developers, and harms our ability to continue our work. Though I’ve only gone into depth in this announcement on the latest trademark violation against us, our experience with two GPL violations over the previous year have caused an incredible amount of frustration. These concerns are echoed by the complaints of many others about the treatment of the GPL by the embedded Linux industry in particular over many years. With that in mind, today’s announcement is concerned with the future availability of our stable series of patches. We decided that it is unfair to our sponsors that the above mentioned unlawful players can get away with their activity. Therefore, two weeks from now, we will cease the public dissemination of the stable series and will make it available to sponsors only. The test series, unfit in our view for production use, will however continue to be available to the public to avoid impact to the Gentoo Hardened and Arch Linux communities. If this does not resolve the issue, despite strong indications that it will have a large impact, we may need to resort to a policy similar to Red Hat’s, described here or eventually stop the stable series entirely as it will be an unsustainable development model.

    (tags: culture gpl linux opensource security grsecurity via:nelson gentoo arch-linux gnu)

  • London Calling: Two-Factor Authentication Phishing From Iran

    some rather rudimentary anti-2FA attempts, presumably from Iranian security services

    (tags: authentication phishing security iran activism 2fa mfa)

  • Vegemite May Power The Electronics Of The Future

    Professor Marc in het Panhuis at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science figured out that you can 3D print the paste and use it to carry current, effectively creating Vegemite bio-wires. What does this mean? Soon you can run electricity through your food. “The iconic Australian Vegemite is ideal for 3D printing edible electronics,” said the professor. “It contains water so it’s not a solid and can easily be extruded using a 3D printer. Also, it’s salty, so it conducts electricity.”
    I’m sure the same applies for Marmite…

    (tags: vegemite marmite 3d-printing electronics bread food silly)

  • Beoir.org Community – Recent Attack on McGargles

    bizarre conspiracy theory going around about McGargles microbrewery being owned by Molson in an “astroturf craft beer” operation — they apparently were set up by a bunch of ex-Molson employees. Their beer is getting stickered in off-licenses. Mental!

    (tags: beer craft-beer ireland mcgargles conspiracy-theories bizarre beoir)

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