How Steve and I are cord killing $10 at a time using a Leaf antenna. Turns out you can use an external mic to record to Recolive’s Multicam using the ProJive XLR from CableJive. Learn how I used Automator to launch all of my apps to create the live show. In Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart starts Programming Languages – a 40,000 Foot View (Part 1 of 2).
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Clarify
This week I needed to test an old Linksys WRT54G I found in my closet, figuring if I could prove to myself it was still functional I could sell it for around $25 on Amazon. I started fussing around with plugging it into my Verizon FiOS router, then my Airport Extreme, threw in my gigabit Ethernet switch (thanks Pat!) but I was having trouble remembering the topology of my network so that I could get it working. The great thing is that I document EVERYTHING I do around here using Clarify. I was able to whip open my tutorial on how to bypass the Verizon FiOS router and use my Airport Extreme instead, and there was the lovely diagram Bart had created for me and I had pasted into Clarify along with all of the other instructions. Without Clarify I don’t think I could remember how to get dressed in the morning! If you do lots of complex stuff but find it hard to remember what you’ve done, you really should check out the beta of Clarify 2 over at clarify-it.com and see how awesome it is for you. By the way, it works on Windows too!
Chit Chat Across the Pond – Start Time: 20:41
Security Light (Bumper edition)
A Correction:
I totally misunderstood the EU court ruling in the last CCATP. I’ve done a lot more reading on it since, and while it’s a lot more complicated than I first realised, I don’t believe it’s the catastrophe many in the tech industry and media tried to make it out to be. Obviously only time will tell for sure.
- A European Lawyer’s take on it: http://amberhawk.typepad.com/amberhawk/2014/05/press-and-google-misrepresent-european-courts-google-judgement.html
- Google Creates an online form for European Citizens to apply to have private data removed from search results – http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2014/05/30/google-unenthusiastically-launches-right-to-be-forgotten-request-form/
- 12,000 Europeans apply to be forgotten: http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2014/06/02/12000-europeans-ask-google-to-forget-them/
- Google To Show When Results are Filtered: http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2014/06/09/google-to-flag-right-to-be-forgotten-censored-search-results/
Important Security updates:
- Patch Tuesday has been and gone with important updates from Microsoft & Adobe (including IE, Word, Flash & AIR) – http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/06/adobe-microsoft-push-critical-security-fixes-4/
- Microsoft patches a security vulnerability in it’s anti-malware engine (affects many products, including Security Essentials) – http://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/current-activity/2014/06/17/Microsoft-Releases-Security-Advisory-Microsoft-Malware-Protection
- Apple release security updates for Safari: http://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/current-activity/2014/05/22/Apple-Releases-Security-Updates-Safari
- Mozilla patch FireFox & Thunderbird – http://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/current-activity/2014/06/13/Mozilla-Releases-Security-Updates-Firefox-Firefox-ESR-Thunderbird
Important Security News:
- iPhones around the world mysteriously locked with ransom notices – Russian authorities claim to have arrested those responsible (I find it hard to believe anything Russian authorities say these days, so I’m taking this with a whole cellar of salt) – http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2014/05/27/apple-ransomware-strikes-australia-pay-oleg-100-or-else/ & http://www.intego.com/mac-security-blog/moscow-hacking-duo-confess-to-hijacking-apple-devices-in-the-name-of-oleg-pliss/
- TrueCrypt developers call it day – http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/05/true-goodbye-using-truecrypt-is-not-secure/, http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2014/06/20/truecrypt-mystery-forking-weirder-than-before/ & Security Now Episode 458 (https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-458.htm)
- Microsoft update their TOS – stress privacy (they seem to be trying to position themselves as an anti-Google) – http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/microsoft-services-agreement-faq
- Related – recently un-sealed court documents show MS successfully challenged a national security letter in court –http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_on_the_issues/archive/2014/05/22/new-success-in-protecting-customer-rights-unsealed-today.aspx
- Smartphone kill-Switch Developments:
- Study shows iOS7 Activation lock has cut down on iPhone thefts: http://arstechnica.com/apple/2014/06/ios-7-activation-lock-cutting-iphone-theft-damages-resale-market/
- Google & Microsoft to follow suit and add Kill-Switches to: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-06-19/android-windows-phone-will-have-kill-switches-n-y-says.html
Notable Data Breaches:
- Android Spotify users asked to upgrade and reset their passwords – http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2014/05/27/spotify-warns-its-android-app-users-of-breach-says-to-download-new-version/
- US Chinese restaurant chain PF Chang: http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/06/p-f-changs-confirms-credit-card-breach/ & http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/06/p-f-changs-breach-likely-began-in-sept-2013/
- Dominos Pizza customer data in France & Belgium held to randsom – http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2014/06/16/dominos-pizza-hacked-customer-database-held-to-ransom/
Suggest Reading (Bumper edition):
- * Brian Krebs looks at some hardware devices for protecting you from ‘Juice-Jacking’ – http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/06/gear-to-block-juice-jacking-on-your-mobile/
- * Contrary to some reports, a super computer did not pass the Turing test – https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140609/07284327524/no-supercomputer-did-not-pass-turing-test-first-time-everyone-should-know-better.shtml
- * Ars Technia have a nice article explaining how iOS8 allows extensibility via plugins without compromising security – http://arstechnica.com/apple/2014/06/explaining-ios-8s-extensions-opening-the-platform-while-keeping-it-secure/
- * A year on from the first Snowden Leaks Naked Security look back on what we’ve learned: http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2014/06/06/snowden-one-year-on-and-its-still-not-1984/ & http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2014/06/06/what-we-learned-from-edward-snowden/
- * Mobile Malware turns 10 – Naked Security provide a retrospective: http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2014/06/01/from-cabir-to-koler-10-years-of-mobile-malware/
- Vodafone reveal government phone tapping in 29 countries in Europe and beyond – http://www.rte.ie/news/2014/0606/621912-vodafone/
- Another Open SSL problem, though not nearly as catastrophic as HeartBleed – http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2014/06/06/latest-openssl-flaws-can-lead-to-information-leakage-code-execution-and-dos/
- Apple, Google & Facebook CEOs sign open letter for the Reset the Net campaign – http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/apple-google-and-facebook-ceos-sign-open-letter-for-reset-the-net-campaign
- Irish Court refers Facebook privacy case to European Court – when this verdict comes in a few months, it will be important, one way or the other – http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2014/06/20/facebook-privacy-case-to-be-referred-to-european-court-of-justice/
- A Canadian court orders Google to block links world-wide (worth reading, not nearly as outrageous as you might suspect) – http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/the-law-page/bc-court-seeking-global-reach-orders-google-to-block-sites/article19212708/
- Researcher finds that many apps in the Google Play store store important keys in plain text – http://phys.org/news/2014-06-thousands-secret-keys-android-apps.html
- US Marshals swoop in to snatch phone surveillance data requested by ACLU under FOI – http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2014/06/09/feds-swoop-in-snatch-mobile-phone-tracking-records-away-from-aclu/
- Dashline release their list latest Password security roundup – http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2014/05/29/which-of-your-favourite-websites-are-terrible-at-passwords/
- Security researcher claims to have written an Android apps to use the camera to spy on users even when the phone is locked – http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2014/05/28/yes-your-smartphone-camera-can-be-used-to-spy-on-you/
Main Topic – Programming Languages – a 40,000 Foot View (Part 1 of 2):
http://www.bartbusschots.ie/blog/?p=4696
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Great overview!
Bart said that you must write device drivers in assembly language. Technically this is incorrect. Drivers can be written in any language. If you want to optimize performance, you can write your driver in assembly. You can even have hybrid drivers (with bits written in both C and assembly; the bits that require high performance get written in assembly, whereas the rest in C.) Unfortunately you don’t see this very much these days.
Also, in all fairness, the verboseness of Java can’t really be singled out as being Java’s fault, because a lot of that excess baggage comes with pretty much every other object-oriented language (defining classes, main methods, etc.) You can also shorten method calls by importing, e.g. if you “import static java.lang.System.out” then System.out.println(“foo”) can be shortened to just println(“foo”).