taint.org: Justin Mason’s Weblog

Meta: I’m back in Dublin for a couple of weeks over xmas, so I won’t be updating this weblog very much. See you in January!

BTW I flew back via Chicago, which is obviously the stopover of choice to Dublin from Silicon Valley — surrounded by 1 iBook per every 8 passengers. ;)

PS: looks like they forgot Poland!

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Drink: George Orwell: A Nice Cup of Tea (Evening Standard, 12 January 1946)

If you look up ‘tea’ in the first cookery book that comes to hand you will probably find that it is unmentioned; or at most you will find a few lines of sketchy instructions which give no ruling on several of the most important points. This is curious, not only because tea is one of the main stays of civilization in this country, as well as in Eire, Australia and New Zealand, but because the best manner of making it is the subject of violent disputes.

(thanks Leon!)

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from Slashdot: Cisco patents ‘Intrusion detection signature analysis using regular expressions and logical operators’.

That is so, so sad. Filed January 15, 1999. There’s got to be a stack of prior art.

A google search throws up this trivial example first off — the use of snoop | egrep 'PATTERN1|PATTERN2|PATTERN3'. More searching reveals Lance Spitzner’s page on Intrusion Detection for Checkpoint FW-1, which looks like it was originally written in 1997. The alert.sh script there uses grep(1) plentifully.

Tags: analysis, art, detection, filed, google, intrusion, january, pattern, signature, slashdot