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The National Security Agency (NSA) has written security configuration guides for many operating systems and applications. Very helpful when setting up a new network.

Wow! Your tax dollars being spent on something useful. I was expecting to see a lot more open source software on there. Especially under web servers they don’t even have a guide for Apache (which I am rather sure is still the most used web server).

Although there was an archived guide for redhat+apache, but it was from November of 2003. I like that in the “Guidelines for the Development and Evaluation of IEEE 802.11 Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS)*” they have to define the word “should” in the terminology section.

Too bad these sites like many others favor Microsoft products.

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This hurts my brain. Never wanted to learn python anyways ¬_¬! Click here for the answers to the riddles.

This isn’t really the first, there have been a good few out there… Some much more complicate than this. Try +Ma’s Reversing or thisisnotporn

“An interactive experience of color communication and color symbolism.” An extremely well-made flash movie showing the symbolism of colors. Very well done and really awesome.

Quite entertaining and extremely well put together. This is perfect, I need this color reference! That made me feel good after watching for some reason, well done!

If it looks like a dragon and smells like a dragon, then it must be a dragon. But those spoofed pictures are worse than a 60’s sci-fi movie and it looks like clouds…

I ran across this pic and I think it’s amazing. Hard to believe it isn’t rendered in 3D or even real.

I’m sure the person who made it was at least looking at a real motorcycle or a picture of one while he or she made it. If this is not a fake, it’s pretty sweet! The art work that is done using Photoshop can be riveting, some of the art galleries showing it are amazing.

It’s very well done…hard to tell…except for the wheels in my opinion. It definitely takes time, and a little talent though. You simply scan a photo and lock it in a layer. Then start tracing shapes giving each it’s own layer and treatments. The glossy, non-pourous nature of the subject makes it easier to photo-illustrate. A closeup of a person’s face would be much more difficult.

It might not use any parts of a photograph, but it’s definitely a Honda VTX.

Nifty Corners are a combination of CSS and Javascript to get rounded corners without images. The nearest example is on this very page itself. Check out the rounded corners above in the headmast

OBKRUOXOGHULBSOLIFBBWFLRVQQPRNGKSSOTWTQSJQSSEKZZWATJKLUDIAWINFBNYPVTTMZFPKWGDKZXTJCDIGKUHUAUEKCAR Don’t know what all that means? Neither does anyone else except the one man who created it.

How do we know it’s a real code if only one person can decrypt it? Couldn’t it just type out a bunch of gibberish and say it means whatever I want it to mean? It could be made more readable (Though perhaps weaker? I don’t see how at the moment) if it included a space as the 27th character.

Read a few links deeper. It’s pretty interesting how it works– Just a letter replacement code, but it’s Key-Based. If I was in third grade, I would totally pass notes like this! Encoding/Decoding info in the link. In case you’ve not heard of the Kryptos statue before…

The guy used english words as the key for the other lines. You’d think they could bruteforce it with a dictionary attack!Someone facing this straight off may or may not know that the keys are english words. They just have a ton of gibberish. The key is probably in Greek and or Latin. Whoever breaks it will need to know a lot of references and history.

There was a big write up in Wired magazine about it that went into a lot more detail. It’s just a really good code. The sculptor actually didn’t make it up entirely himself. I’m pretty sure I remember reading that he has the help of a cryptographer. The code can be broken with a special frequency analysis tool (at least the 1st two sections). My guess the ‘key’ to solve the 4th section lies in the message of the 1st three. It has to be some sort of riddle.

I have one too. See if you can decrypt it….
FGHKJLGBRHUOIVNYCYUSDPERUYGBVJBVWOHIWU BHVFINVHUFJNTIOUFHEICNVBHJIFROEIFBFFJIUTYUOCOJHFNEMNB

The best way to make an undecryptable message is to create your own set of characters. Then encrypt those characters with different characters.

Taken from Elonka’s Krytos FAQ
Q: What does Kryptos have to do with the bestseller “The Da Vinci Code” by Dan Brown?

Dan Brown is a big fan of cryptology, and has long been intrigued by Kryptos. When he published his book, he hid some puzzles within the artwork of the bookjacket. Two of those puzzles refer to Kryptos. You can learn more about him, the book, and the puzzles by going to http://www.danbrown.com and clicking on “Secrets”. For example, if you hold the backcover of the book up to a mirror and look very closely at the part near the Crais quote, you can faintly see the coordinates 37° 57′ 6.5″ N 77° 8′ 44″ W on one side (it’s light red on dark red, so is hard to see). These are a clue to the coordinates in the deciphered text of part 2 of Kryptos, which are 38° 57′ 6.5″ N 77° 8′ 44″ W. We don’t know why the book says 37 and Kryptos says 38, although when Dan Brown was asked, he replied, “This discrepancy is intentional.” Another puzzle is on the backcover in the artwork of the brown “tear”. In very faint script, upside-down, it is possible to make out the words “only WW knows.”

Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google, still uses his Yahoo email address on his hompage months after the launch of Google’s GMail email service.

Maybe no one has sent him an invite yet, or maybe he’s waiting until Gmail is out of Beta or he’s used this one for a long time, and doesn’t wanna change! Hopefully, he’s going to take down his homepage once he realizes it makes him look bad.

Did anyone ever think to check out registration or anything? It’s through earthlink… now do you think a google CEO would create a website through EARTHLINK?! umm not happening, unless its his old site. Yes i know the phone number is to google… but really who cares because obviously this sites not current…. People just trying to get on googles case.

From the looks of it, and you may also fail to realize, that the CEO of Google wouldn’t be using GMail….. He would have some local, internal address of like e.schmidt@google.com or eric@google.com or eschmidt@google.com His site isn’t content rich, and I am sure he doesn’t want to get THOUSANDS of emails so he posts a dummy address, meanwhile other google executives can contact him at any time with his real address.

Besides, its a yahoo address, and it’s posted in it’s entirity on a website, so spam bots can pick it up with no strain. Think about all the spam he gets…. The CEO of Google may have had a Yahoo account at one time, or it could be fake… Does the CEO even own that domain?

Nobody cares, and if they do care, they need to get a life.

View the Earth as currently seen from a satellite in Earth orbit, choose the satellite from the list. But I was kinda hoping it was an actual view FROM some of those satellites,rather than just a simulated view of what the Earth would look like from their current position.

I long for the day that we can look at streaming satellite footage, and the satellites would be able to zoom and capture video in realtime, just like in Enemy of the State.

Whoa.. looks like I’ve got a live one here… Didn’t aware that some people took the time to update and compile all sorts of phrases and put it online.