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A mob of shoppers at a Florida Wal-Mart trampled a woman over $29 DVD players. The woman fell to the floor, unconcious. She was found there, with shoppers continuing to mill about her, ignoring her in favor of the DVD player.



Well, perhaps they were just focused on doing their duty.

Fight rampant consumerism.



Celebrate Buy Nothing Day.

John Titor claims to be from the future.



In John's world, time-travel is commonplace, driven by the distortion of gravity using twin singularities. A fascist United States police state has been destroyed by a decade of civil war and a protracted nuclear exchange with Russia. Billions are dead from wars, famine, and pestilence.



Good thing it's all a hoax...right?

A new release of our glibc heap protection patch is now available. This update fixes the inclusion of x86 assembly in a protection macro which would cause builds to fail on non-x86 architectures. A number of compilation warnings regarding missing chunk pointer casts within protection macros have also been addressed.

According to this Wired article, Congress has passed an intelligence spending bill that included as a provision an increase in the power of the FBI to subpoena business documents without first obtaining the approval of a judge.



The provision was one of the most controversial elements of the recently leaked Patriot II draft which was roundly criticized for its further erosion of civil liberties. Instead of attempting to justify why the additional powers are necessary, it seems that supporters of the provision decided instead to sneak it into a bill which they knew would not be scrutinized.



Of course, there's no reason not to trust the FBI, is there?

Divide and Conquer defeated the Fokkers in an exciting 0-0 forfeit Sunday night at Robertson Field. With a solid if uninspiring final record of 3-2-2, DC looks forward to crushing all comers in the upcoming league playoffs.

An updated release of our heap protection patch for glibc is now available for download. This update fixes several packaging bugs spotted by Alexander Gabert of the gentoo hardened project which effectively resulted in non-protected libraries being shipped in previous releases. All current users are advised to upgrade to the latest release for this reason, which is v1.3 at the time of this writing.



Also, a non-critical bug which resulted in 4*PAGE_SIZE bytes being allocated for the protected chunk canary seed buffer instead of PAGE_SIZE bytes was spotted by pageexec (at) freemail.hu and has been fixed in this release.

Divide and Conquer tied unbeaten TSA in a tough, physical match which was marred by subpar officiating and suboptimal field conditions.



TSA drew first blood midway through the first half on a corner kick that was converted by a run at the far post. TSA's offense continued to apply heavy pressure for the rest of the first half and into the second, directed by their creative center midfielder. However, DC managed to repel their attacks; keeper Bob Chalmers provided several excellent saves to keep DC within striking distance.



The equalizer was finally provided by Ozgur Sahin on a brilliant solo run down the left side, setting the stage for an exciting finish. However, though both sides had good chances at the goal during the last five minutes of play, both defenses also managed to deny the opposing team, leaving the final score at 1-1.



Next week's opponent: the aptly-named Fockers.

An update to our alert verification patch to Snort has been released. The patch has been updated to the latest Snort source, v2.0.4. In addition, a fix has been incorporated to address a configuration script issue which could cause builds to fail if nessus is installed on the build system. As always, current software can be downloaded from the project software page.

A new release of our heap protection patch for glibc is now available for download.



This update mainly incorporates better installation support, and includes binary packages for RedHat 9 on i386. Additional platforms will be supported upon user request.



No changes have been made to the overflow detection code itself.

An updated release of our alert verification patch to Snort has been issued.



Changes include the addition of a thread pool to parallelize verification of alerts, a fix for an alert queue list deletion bug, and a fix for use of static packet data across multiple threads. Current patches can be downloaded on the project software page.

It would be a disservice to those who need to kick ass and look cool while remaining incognito to not post this handy guide to the ancient art of making ninja masks out of t-shirts.

Divide and Conquer emerged as the victor in an epic battle against SY International Sunday night at Robertson Field with a final result of 3-2.



SYI attacked early, using the speed of their strikers to take a 1-0 lead early in the first half. DC stiffened its defense and responded with two goals, the first on a quick counter from midfielder Hussam Mousa with an assist by Christos Psaroudis, and the second on a heads-up trailing run at the goal by Hussam which capitalized on a mishandled shot by SYI's keeper.



The first seconds of the second half saw a lightning equalizer on a slicing give and go by SYI's forwards which caught DC's defense completely off guard. Fortunately, Christos made good a penalty kick midway through the second half which was awarded for a slide by an SYI defender in their penalty box. Much protesting by SYI availed them nothing, and DC managed to hold on for a hard-fought win.



Next up: the Tigres.

A consulting group releases a report on diversity within the US DOJ attorney workforce, which is withheld for two years before being released under the FOIA in a redacted form.



Another group then figures out that instead of removing the redacted information, it was simply obscured in its visual representation. Said group then releases an uncensored version.



So were there any breaches of national security? Any names of CIA field operatives revealed? Well, not quite, since a comparison quickly reveals a motivation of an all together different sort. One can imagine that being in the position to make damaging press disappear with the wave of the censor's pen is quite a tempting thing to some...