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interesting stuff
hello,
We didn’t mean to create a blog that would be just a news crawler as most of the blogs out there are. But, as time is against us (one more time) I decided to blog about two (three actually) really interesting stuff I’ve read today.
The first is a vulnerability scan for PHP apps (it scans for XSS and SQLI vulnerabilities) it’s called Pixy and you should all give a try for this tool. It can save your job 
The other article (which was divided in two parts) teaches how to create encrypted partitions to protect your data in linux. I read it at LinuxPlanet, you may click here and here to see how everything works.
No commentsfresh news
Not much going on these days around here. Our Bifrot project (that’s how we named the distributed hash cracking project) is stuck for a couple weeks because of tests period in Brazil (semester is ending… here so I gotta study a bit). I guess I can quickly update you with some good news:
Hash cracking:
- We managed to add the Bifrost as a project for our research group in networking security at university. Everything shall get easier now once we will have our own server 24/7 (well.. in practice is more like a 24/4 hehehe). We also invited few friends to help us out developing the algorithms and the fun part. (no, we are not going to use BOINC).
Joomla!:
- Discussion is finally over. Joomla! sticks to (pure)GPL and all these proprietary devs may start crying. YOU LOSE! check the announcement here
- I don’t have time to fix the .fla, from the flash+joomla integration post, right now but I promise I won’t forget you and will find a way to post a corrected version ASAP.
excuse the english mistakes, i’m in a rush here 
talk to you soon.
Javascript 1.7 (or Pythonscript ?)
Hello! This topic will explain some of the new features of JavaScript 1.7 which are
embedded in Firefox 2.0 Beta1+ versions and probably in IE (I'm not sure).
The most interesting point in the new features is the "apparently" correlation
with the Python same features, which I will cite.
Well, let's prepare to use our new features. First of all, we need to declare some
special string in the script type attribute like that:
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<script type="application/javascript;version=1.7"></script>
With this tag, we enable the v.1.7 features on our scripts.
This is needed because some new reserved keywords of 1.7 version may
interfere in the old code, the words are: "yield", "let", etc...
Let's begin.
Generators
Generator are like interactive functions with state variables.
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/* The function */
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function gen()
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{
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var i = 0;
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while(true)
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{
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yield i;
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i++;
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}
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}
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/* The "g" var isn't a simple function,
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is a instance of an generator */
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var g = gen()
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/* This for loop show 3 alerts with
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respective values: 0, 1, 2 */
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for (var i=0; i<3; i++)
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{
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alert(g.next())
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}
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g.close();
This is a powerful new feature of JavaScript 1.7, and have the same
syntax of Python Generators as you see here.
I will post about other new features in next posts, cause now I'm busy
with the Distributed Rainbow Tables project.
Farewell,
Christian S. Perone
distributed rainbow tables project
Hello! It has been a long time without blogging anything new here so this is a quick update on what's going on.
- We are planning a revolutionary distributed rainbow table generator. I know there are a few projects regarding this but none will be like ours (I still cannot provide much more info about how we are going to do this but it's gonna rock. Trust me hehe). It's going to be coded in Java because I plan to use it at college.... sorry python fans. BTW: We are still looking for a nice name for this project so if you have any suggestions, feel free to submit
- My analytics account has been upgraded to the new beta. It became pretty cool to watch the statistics now and it looks much nicer (although it has small css errors in firefox2 and linux).
- Please guys, don't change Joomla's license! What happened to the "because open source matters"? It looks like it doesn't matter that much anymore 
Cheers for all Gremio supporters!
3 commentswardriving weekend
What a great weekend!
Yesterday Joomla! 1.5b2 was released. Today we've made the wardriving day. If you still don't know the authors of this blog, please take a look at the picture, there you have Christian (in red) configurating Kismet and me playing with my little tux (Aroldo).
We've invited two good friends (thiago aka tx and joão aka joão) to join us in our first wardriving over the town. It has been amazing to see how many unprotected networks (check more photos in the album) a small city like ours have (Passo Fundo / Brazil has about 180k habitants...)
unfortunately thiago's laptop doesn't have a serial port where we could plug in our GPS so we won't be able to plot any maps. This time the wardriving was just for fun (and we've had a LOT of fun :D) please check the pictures and leave your comments (most of the descriptions in Flickr are in portuguese. Sorry about that, but your comments are more than welcome anyway...)
BTW, thanks to the jUploadr Team that makes picture uploading to Flickr so easy and thanks to the Flickr team for this amazing app (1000s times better than picasa!).
That's all guys! See you on monday
PS: I'm glad Googlebots have finally found us!
No commentsParty time!
Joomla! 1.5 beta 2 is out!! after almost 6 months of waiting we can finally test the new litle baby!
Don't forget to report bugs and learn the new stuff. I'll see you in RC1 my friend.
BTW: I got owned in my test simply forgot to answer two questions. o_O DAMN!
