Archive for July 4th, 2007

No it wasn’t an April Fool’s joke

Michał ‘GiM’ Spadliński, a Polish blogger wrote in his article “Czy Redpill Joanny Rutkowskiej jest poprawny?“:

Oliver Schneider (Reverse Engineer pracujący dla F-Prota) opublikował […] artykuł, datowany na pierwszego kwietnia, który wcale nie wygląda na prima aprilisowy żart.

This made me really laugh. No, I have to admit my Polish is not the best (and getting worse due to lack of exercise), but I could clearly understand the quoted parts and quite some more.
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Battle of the titans?

Ptacek, Lawson and Ferrie - well-known security specialists - joined up to challenge Rutkowska and prove that her virtualization rootkit BluePill (up to now AMD-specific) is detectable regardless of her claims. The above link leads to her official reply to them.

Rutkowska likes to speak in absolutes, as it seems. In one instance I could even falsify one of her claims concerning VMM detection from within a VM using the interrupt descriptor table address as an indicator. This shows she is human as everyone, but having her own company now and being busy all the time (who is not?) she never found the time to respond to my articles :roll:

Anyway, this gets me really excited about who will win the challenge, but Peter Ferrie, being a former FRISK employee, has all my sympathies :mrgreen:

// Oliver

DW-Reportage zur documenta 12

Auf DW-World gab es letztens eine Reportage zum Thema documenta 12, wo eine afrikanische Modeschöpferin gehypt wurde. Der Kommentar den sie abgab machte mich nachdenklich. Sie meinte, daß da wo sie herkäme nur Sklaven und Tiere einen Strick um den Hals bekommen und die Europäer sich (mit Krawatten) das gleiche freiwillig antun.

Also mir fällt dazu ein: in Europa haben wir die Sklaverei abgeschafft :shock:

// Oliver