In response to Bruce Schneier’s latest post, let me explain how you can corrupt your own PDF documents for free. Open your PDF document with a binary editor, search for references to the root object (/Root), and overwrite the reference (36 in my example) with a non-existing reference, like 00.
Of course, be careful and make backups first.
Tested on several PDF readers:
Remember that the UserAssist keys are encrypted with ROT13?
In Windows 7 Beta, not anymore! Weak ROT13 crypto has been replaced with “stronger” Vigenère crypto!
The Vigenère key I found through some basic cryptanalysis is BWHQNKTEZYFSLMRGXADUJOPIVC.
To the Microsoft developer who designed this: great joke! You really made me laugh. Seriously. 
And I thought Easter Eggs were banned in Microsoft products. Maybe you don’t think of it as an Easter Egg, but as a programmer, I do. 
My guest post over at Pauldotcom:
“Tis the season for tipping garbage men. Here in Brussels, at the end of the year, garbage men would ring your doorbell during their round, presenting you their best wishes for the new year.
This tradition came to an end several years ago. Nowadays, they present you their best wishes when they’re off-duty. And in came a new ID problem…“
A quiz question for today: what is CALL -151?
Shout-outs to everyone who ever used CALL -151!
Update:
The answer:
It’s silly to post this now, but I forgot to mention in my YAISC post that I wouldn’t post my cartoons in this feed.
Today I’m starting a new experiment. I wonder if I’ll be funny enough to entertain you.
Ever noticed a list of exotic animals (Poweroyster, Firebadger, Hypnotoad, …) in your web site visitors list (user-agent strings)?
One of your visitors certainly uses the Firesomething Firefox add-on!
Like last year, I produced an anti-virus related Season’s Greetings movie.
The movie is hosted here on YouTube, and you can find a hires version (XviD) here.
Next week, you’ll get the technical details of this pocked web server.
Happy New Year!
I claim to be the first to practice real warclimbing.
My N800 with Kismet running:
N800 in the pocket:
Starting the climb with Kismet attached to my climbing harness:
Capturing frames at the top:
