Social Engineering at Work

I’ve never had social engineering done at me, but recently there was this guy who phone me by directly calling MX Telecom’s number. He said he was calling from DHL and that he had a package to be delivered for me. He wanted the name of two other people who would sign the delivery report in case I was not there. I complied and later a colleague told me that this is most likely a recruiter collecting names from the companies.

How to become a unix guru

Just read this on the irc channel #netbsd on freenode. Found it funny :) <alphawaves> how can I become a unix guru? <alphawaves> is it only possible? <sqweek> do you really want to? <alphawaves> uhm y eah i try to several years * AccessExcess has quit (Remote closed the connection) <sqweek> do you still want to after i tell you that aside from general understanding it requires rote learning of countless quirks and inconsistencies between tools/distros/systems?

in a perfect world

Read at http://bash.org/?203815 In a perfect world... spammers would get caught, go to jail, and share a cell with many men who have enlarged their penisses, taken Viagra and are looking for a new relationship. Wouldn’t it be nice? Yessss

Google Calendar

So, Google is preparing another web application for all of us to enjoy. A web calendar to keep track of all the things you could put on your calendar, like iCal or simmilar. It looks like it’s going to be possible to sync them from your favourite calendar desktop application. There are some good screenshots of this Google Calendar here. The cuestion is, if google is owning your email, being the internet search master, and deploying a bunch of other interesting services (Google Talk and Google maps among others)… Isn’t having all this information about you too much?