Equation Group
A chilling but fascinatingly informative article describing Kaspersky’s gradual uncovering of the various methods used by the hacking group – most likely tied to the U.S. government – given the monicker “Equation Group”: How ‘omnipotent’ hackers tied to NSA hid for 14 years—and were found at last Equation Group boasted the type of extraordinary engineering skill people have come to expect from a spy organization sponsored by the world’s wealthiest nation. One of the Equation Group’s malware platforms, for instance, rewrote the hard-drive firmware of infected computers—a never-before-seen engineering marvel that worked on 12 drive categories from manufacturers including Western Digital, Maxtor, Samsung, IBM, Micron, Toshiba, and Seagate. The malicious firmware created a secret storage vault that survived military-grade disk wiping and reformatting, making sensitive data stolen from victims available even after reformatting the drive and reinstalling the operating system. The firmware also provided programming interfaces that other code in Equation Group’s sprawling malware library could access. Once a hard drive was compromised, the infection was impossible to detect or...
Angelfire 0001
I’ve taken a look at Angelfire before but today I decided to just hunt for pictures from the old domain and, because there are a lot of them, I narrowed the search to just those pictures containing “0001” in the filename. Obviously, these aren’t all of...
Architecture For Children
A lovely little Swiss website here that curates photos of architectural constructs built specifically for children around the world: Architektur für Kinder The side navigation bar provides great categorised links to scans of books, designers, and projects. A sample of some of the images is below:
Desnuda En La Arena
Hey, do you remember back in the depths of summer of last year – July, to be precise – when I wrote about the 1970s Euro Porn stylings present in the German movie Lehrmädchen-Report? And do you remember what I said back then? This is potentially the first of a series of style showcases and mini reviews of 1970s European soft porn movies. Well, brace yourself for a review of another movie only this time it’s not really softcore porn, it’s from the sixties, it’s not European, and I’m not concentrating on the style! I know! Never let it be said I don’t know how to disappoint people in a myriad of ways! Desnuda en la Arena YouTube in its infinite wisdom (or finite algorithmic calculations) recommended a user’s channel to me based on my predilection for watching Cheesy Crud From Yesteryear (not an actual genre on YouTube but by gum it should be!) That led me to somewhere which led me to somewhere else which led me to spotting this particular movie listed down the right side of the screen: Desnuda En La Arena 1969 – Isabel Sarli. I didn’t know any Italian but I thought I could work out what this said: Des, nude in the arena. It turned out that the words were Spanish and not Italian though but as luck would have it I didn’t know any Spanish either yet still thought I could work out what this said: Des, nude in the arena. The question was: which Des? Lynam or O’Connor? You’ll be pleased to know the answer was neither and that this particular post isn’t going to get super weird and feature either of these fine stalwarts of British television entertainment stripped naked and fighting lions in front of a bloodthirsty and sexually aroused crowd. And if there’s no fan fiction describing precisely that scenario then I’ll be very disappointed with the internet. Very disappointed indeed. So, it’s not Des and he’s not naked. What is it then? Well, the plot according to Wikipedia is: The well known star of erotic movies, Isabel Sarli, plays Alicia a single mother who moves to Panama and starts working as a stripper deceiving men and making them the victims of her extortions. Pretty straightforward. I’d not heard of Isabel Sarli before but the retired actress is described as “a cultural icon”, a “sex symbol”, and, most importantly, John Waters really likes her. With gushing praise like that it would be impossible to not love this film, so let’s get on and start loving the film. The film opens on a beach, panning over some discarded bikini...
Portsmouth, Alien Invasion – Home Defence
Defending the city of Portsmouth from the Squirmy Munge was vitally important, of course, but as a popular phrase of the time reminded citizens “Defence starts at your doorstep!” and so it was that many homes in and around the island became highly fortified structures. Popular means of improving one’s house included: Asbestos coating, to act as fire retardant. Steel shutters for the windows to protect from shrapnel. Holy water fonts (as some people considered – and weren’t dissuaded from considering by the church who sold and installed the fonts – that the aliens were sent by Satan). Electrified door knockers (eventually forbidden in the city owing to high numbers of postmen requiring hospitalisation and a general acceptance that that Squirmy Munge probably wouldn’t knock anyway). But there were also some very innovative attempts at protecting property too. Two streets in Milton painted a mural of grass, trees, and large boulders on their rooftops in an attempt to fool any passing Squirmy Munge fighter bombers into targeting elsewhere. Either the aliens were not fooled or they were just clumsy or lucky because an evening raid in October 1921 proved very costly for the neighbourhood with two thirds of the buildings...
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