Upcoming Chaosradio show on encryption

After quite some time of absence, I'm finally going to participate in Chaosradio again. The subject of the upcoming show is encryption for personal use, mostly focusing on hard disk and email encryption.

I'm single again

Those of you who know me one a more personal level will find it hard to believe that I'm actually a single again. Especially following up the engagement some two years ago.

After knowing Elisabeth for nine years, having lived together about half that time, it actually feels more like a divorce than 'just' a normal separation / split-up.

I will not make the mistake to state any reasons publicly in this weblog, sorry ;) Let just be said that we both feel very sad, and it was certainly not a lighthearted decision.

There's going to be some rough time ahead, and I'm certainly not in the mood for any kind of serious relationship anytime soon.

Always in motion, the future is.

netfilter do_replace() bug is not remotely exploitable

I don't know how people like securityfocus and heise.de and others claim that the recently-discovered and fixed 'do_replace()' bug is remotely exploitable.

In fact, the bug (which was found and fixed by Solar Designer while working for the OpenVZ project) can only happen in a codepath that can be executed by the local root user. Not even a non-root user, neither any remote parties can hit that bug and/or exploit anything.