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Part 1: Algorithms
Part 2: Methodologies
Part 3: Applications
So for the first two parts I’m supposed to learn about something I dont know what it’s for?
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I finished Xenophon’s Anabasis, returned to Hellenica and finished it.
Ignoring Anabasis, I read Herodutos Histories, Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War and Xenophon’s Hellenica. They tell tales of the rise and fall of empires: the rise and fall of the athenian empire, the spartan hegemony in the hellenic world and the very short-lived theban hegemony [...]

How and why “decent men” became Nazis. Written by an American journalist of German\Jewish descent. Mr. Mayer provides a fascinating window into the lives, thoughts and emotions of a people caught up in the rush of the Nazi movement. It is a book that should make people pause and think — [...]

I was reading Xenophon’s Hellenica mainly for the ending of the Peloponnesian War which turned out to be in Book II.
Somewhere between Book II and Book III the events of Anabasis take place. I’m now reading it and will return to Hellenica afterwards.

I finished Thucydides‘ History of the Peloponnesian War yesterday and started reading Xenophon’s Hellenica.

Can’t sleep… sigh. The positive thing is that at least I’ve finally finished The Histories. I’m now going to start reading the History of the Peloponnesian War.
One of the things I like when reading history books is learning how little we have changed since… well… the dawn of history.
Bonus excerpt from the last paragraph of [...]

While we’re more or less on the subject of history, I’ll leave here one of my favorite parts of The Histories of Herodotus (excerpt taken from Ancient History Sourcebook):
III.80: And now when five days were gone, and the hubbub had settled down, the conspirators met together to consult about the situation of affairs. At this [...]

Yet another great BOFH episode:
“Why’s it gone dark?”
“You need the power off when you install some things.”
“What things?”
“Hatchets mainly…”

Malware that encrypts files and asks for a ransom to decrypt them has become a popular alternative to the standard business model of malware (installing adware/spyware). It’s still very much in its infancy but it shows promise. Consider a virus “renting” a user his files… DRM for the worse guys (the bad guys being the [...]

A pact with the Devil (PDF) is a very interesting paper even if you’re not a fan of computer security papers. It’s a paper for the whole family to read. Abstract:
We study malware propagation strategies which exploit not the incompetence or naivety of users, but instead their own greed, malice and short-sightedness. We demonstrate that [...]

Get Fuzzy is one of my favorite comic strips since I started reading it about last month.

Three Papers on Worms (all via wormblog) I want to read tomorrow:
On Deriving Unknown Vulnerabilities from ZeroDay Polymorphic and Metamorphic Worm Exploits (direct link to the PDF).
Advanced Polymorphic Worms: Evading IDS by Blending in with Normal Traffic (direct link to the PDF)
The Latest in Internet Attacks: Web Application Worms (direct link to the PDF)
The is [...]

Noteworthy stuff I’ve read this weekend (so far):
A morality tale of Perl versus Python (via Rui Carmo)
Flood Waters Can’t Sink Net Link
From Melissa to Zotob: 10 Years of Windows Worms
Exploiting Cisco with FX
Identifying P2P users using traffic analysis
Books:
Mastering FreeBSD and OpenBSD Security (Partial skim)
BSD Hacks

I’m currently reading The Sandman by Neil Gaiman.

Jon Stewart on Crossfire - get it via Bittorrent or IFILM. The following Daily Show (IFILM) and some sort of response from the crossfire guys. The Bowtie journalist (as I will hence-forth refer to Tucker Carlson) was stupid enough to try to make fun of a professional comedian (the best since Jerry Seinfeld retired). [...]