What did I see in Manizales beyond the strictly academic parts?
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I was invited to Universidad de Manizales Manizales, Colombia, for the Third International Encounter on Computer Security (III Encuentro Internacional de Seguridad Informática), October 7-9 2009. Previous to the encounter, I spent two days in Bogotá with some dear friends.
Before and after EISI, I had some days to spend in and around Bogotá. In Bogotá, I was mainly with my good friends, Giovanni, Nina and Jimmy.
Humm… Has anybody else seen a pattern like this? I am getting a flurry of root login attempts at my main server at the University since yesterday 7:30AM (GMT-5). Now, from the machines I run in the 132.248.0.0/16 network (UNAM), only two listen to the world with ssh at port 22 — And yes, it is a very large network, but I am only getting this pattern on one of them (they are on different subnets, quite far apart). They are all attempting to log in as root, with a frequency that varies wildly, but is consistently over three times...
Martin rants about the German electoral system. From his rant, I’ll pick up only two points — And I’ll try to connect with Toxicore’s excelent (Spanish) blog post, where he quotes political analist Denise Dresser. Dresser has made a great point: Our probably-imposed, legitimacy-impaired president Felipe Calderón has requested the society to «talk good» about Mexico, to project a positive image of the country. Dresser says, yes, there is a lot of good to talk about the country, and we should emphasize on its richness and beauty, invite people to come and visit, to know what the country is really...
I was requested to forward this information to as wide an audience as possible. Possibly two months ago the legality/legitimacy of the actions carried out by the Hondurean armed forces, which captured a democratically elected president and without a judicial order or trial process forced him out of the country, starting a de-facto government, was something questionable. Each day, however, it becomes clearer and clearer the Hondureans are suffering a represive military-backed system which cannot be expected to fulfill as a trustable entity to conduct fair, credible elections. I got this message from a Hondurean friend (of course, whose identity...
I was pointed to this Toast to Turing, by Matt Harvey. Very much worth sharing. Here’s a toast to Alan Turing born in harsher, darker times who thought outside the container and loved outside the lines and so the code-breaker was broken and we’re sorry yes now the s-word has been spoken the official conscience woken – very carefully scripted but at least it’s not encrypted – and the story does suggest a part 2 to the Turing Test: 1. can machines behave like humans? 2. can we? What, don’t you know who Alan Turing was? Read a bit on...
Funny… I just woke up. I was having a funny and surprisingly not-abnormal dream. You know, the few occasions where I remember my dreams, I practically always find a really impossible situation going on. Not this time, and that was the first thing that struck my mind. The dream was staged on a very nice bar, something not very different from the bar on the park by DebConf (in fact, with nice, Spanish-evening-esque light conditions). I was having there some beers with Andrew (NZ), Penny (NZ), Steve (UK), Damog (MX). We were just ordering a nice round of beers; I...
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