“a frustrated thinker sitting by an uncommon polyhedron”
*UPDATE Now with active inline links!
Analysis of Albrecht Durer’s mysterious polyhedron engraving, and polyhedra in general, may be found via the remarkable pre-Y2K website of George Hart.
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A Maltego Graph leveraging the “Just T[he]IP” Local Transform of gamearena.com.au.
Refer to GameArena post for background information.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4ifaewLem1qz5xz0o1_500.png)
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A Maltego Graph leveraging the “Just T[he]IP” Local Transform of gamearena.com.au.
Refer to GameArena post for background information.
This is the best of this sort of thing I have ever seen. If you like shades of blue and green, you will especially enjoy this. Trust me. Just click and see.
You can come back and complain bitterly in my “Ask me” mailbox if you feel that it was a disappointment or waste of time.
I hope you enjoy the following pictures created in matlab. Although it seems these pictures are disordered they were created with only the functions sin, cos, exp and sqrt. No randomness was used!
There were two other images, but this was my favorite. The title is “Pain Wheel”, which I don’t really like. I do like how the effects are created without any random processes.
The title is of course appealing to me. Squiggles always are.
Looking out from the cube farm by Cold Cut on Flickr.
Cold Cut says:
This is the view from my cubicle. At times working in a large city seems cold and too rushed. But once in awhile I stop to look around at the hustle and bustle. Big cities are teaming with life. It’s never dull as there is always something to do… It’s been almost 15 years since I moved to Toronto. I don’t regret it one bit.
Important!
This photo was taken with a non-digital, non-smartphone 35mm camera, using expired Fuji film (it was expired for at least two years, but kept in the refrigerator).
All your .lol belong to Google -
Now that I think about it, they should get rid of every single TLD except .lol and then move the whole internet there: www.ibm.lol www.nyt.lol www.cnn.lol www.facebook.lol dhs.lol, fbi.lol, nasa.lol, un.lol etc.
Yes, that would definitely be a big step forward - for the internet and more importantly for all of humanity. We have become much too serious lately.
Is this FUD? I don’t know.
I DO know that the McAfee Labs person who wrote this has a pleasing command of the English language with a nice sense of wry humor, well, perspective. I rarely enjoy reading a malware forensic analysis quite this much. Plus there was a great pic, that huge visualization shaped like an incredibly foreboding and ominous tornado.
Jumping Into the Flames of Skywiper:
If you see a twister hovering, your eyes are not deceiving you!
Skywiper seems to focus on accessing information meaningful to professional surveillance needs and operations. Some of these functions include:
- It has low-level disk-access parsing, for file system parsing and access
- It supports ZIP file parsing
- It supports parsing multiple documents formats such as PDF, Microsoft Word, and other Office formats
- It is interested in notes, and searches even hidden places within the OS
- It is curious about what is on the target’s desktop
- It has functionality to remotely spread itself within a domain
- The malware is also very careful to get this information back to the control server: It does this by silently firing up extra instances of Internet Explorer, and injects code into them. This way it can be part of a “trusted” process on the machine, allowing it to circumvent personal firewalls.
- Maybe most important, it is interested in mobile devices. This is what the Beetlejuice module does. This “ghost in the machine” discovers Bluetooth devices, and shows interest in the target’s social network, by looking for contacts. It also does this locally, as device information can be found in files, or on the host when the information is synched to it. As of this analysis, it targets Sony and Nokia device contacts.FLAME – Handles AutoRun-infection routines
WEASEL – Handles disk-parsing routines
JIMMY – File parsing support
TELEMETRY – Control server reporting and handling
SUICIDE – Self-termination routine
EUPHORIA – Various exploit modules
BEETLEJUICE – Interface and control for Bluetooth devices
BUNNY – Research continues…
PLATYPUS – Research continues…
CLAN – Lua Module, possibly related to remote target exploits
FROG – Password-stealer module
CRUISE – Handles NT domain-parsing routines
DRILLER – Research continues…
AUDITION – Process termination, AV/security product processes
GATOR – Handles control server communication
LIMBO – Research continues…
MICROBE – Microphone/Audio capture and recording
SNACK – research continues….
MUNCH – Handles network-related tasks; appears to be sniffing
VIPER – Screenshot module
HEADACHE – Research continues…
While historical texts have long been subject to critical analysis, the formal and historical problems posed by graphic representations of time have largely been ignored. This is no small matter; graphic representation is among our most…
What does history look like?
How do you draw time?
*BiblioOdyssey is one of my favorite map-related websites.
(Source: bibliodyssey.blogspot.com)
Found by the wise and kind-hearted @CreditPlumber nearly a year ago, but still a good read.
Note Well!
This is lengthy, and many pages are more than half footnotes. But that is okay, as they are often clarifying definitions, making this a VERY accessible paper to read, even if one is more of a math, physics or computer science type rather than an economist.
