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This popped into my INBOX from an anonymous contributor today. It’s the internal memo regarding the AT&T acquisition of BellSouth:

A message from Ed Whitacre

AT&T Employees,
Today we announced our intention to acquire BellSouth — the logical next step in our effort to become the only communications and entertainment company our customers will ever want. BellSouth is [...]

Strom Carlson, who among other things co-hosts Binary Revolution Radio made the news this week after disclosing a vulnerability in Fedex Kinkos Smart Cards.
eWeek: Hacker Outsmarts Kinko’s ExpressPay Cards
SC Magazine: FedEx pay system could be grounded
Bruce Schneier: FedEx Kinko’s Payment Card Hacked
Digg: Fedex Kinko’s Smart Cards Hacked
Security Focus: Report: ExpressPay can be exploited for cash
PC [...]

Last month I reported that Binrev.com was ranked as the 194,542nd most visited site on the internet by Alexa.com’s traffic ranking. Well I just checked to see what it was at for this month, and now were ranked at 130,068! Rootsecure.net which is run by DDP Member, Nick84, is close behind us at 164,588.
Maybe [...]

A while ago I noticed many people were uploading content to archive.org for their various podcast shows however archive.org provide no API to automate the process. Therefore I coded up a PHP script that can be integrated into an existing CMS or used standalone on a cron which will automatically upload MP3 files in a [...]

After coding long into the night, reading all the new items on the 30 or so RSS feeds you are subscribed to, listening to some of the new podcasts, and updating your website or blog getting up next morning can sometimes be a challenge.  I have never been a fan of startling loud alarm clocks, [...]

As of version 1.2.4, Asterisk now includes encryption support for IAX2 channels! After a user or peer is authenticated, the control and voice channels are encrypted with AES128. There are two ways to activate the encryption within you iax.conf file:
encryption=aes128 or encryption=yes
MD5 authentication has to be used on both ends for the encryption to work.
These [...]

Just wanted to give the Auditor Toolkit a thumbs up.
A year or so ago I must have spent a good couple of hours installing various Bluetooth stacks on two different flavours of Linux. Each time failing to successfully read the phonebook from my vulnerable Sony Ericsson T610 Phone without pairing (ie bluesnarf).
With the Auditor toolkit [...]

Whoa….after looking up Alexa.com’s traffic rankings for Daily Phreak and Old Skool Phreak, I looked up Binrev.com and it’s ranked at 194,542 right now! That’s a hell of a lot more impressive than Daily Phreaks rank at just above 2 million and Old Skool Phreaks at 536,357.
What are the top three sites on the internet? [...]

After a long hiatus from the public eye, I dipped my toe into the waters again by starting a local BinRev meeting in the Northern Orlando area. I did very little promotion of the meeting other than creating a BR407 web site and posting about it in the BinRev forums, in the dedicated 407 [...]

I had the chance today to have some fun with a few more online shopping carts. Generally this consists of simply trying random sites for ones that allow the insertion of a negative quantity but this time I hit pay dirt! I found a company that makes and designs web pages that used the same [...]