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Multiple SQL injections on The Pirate Bay - Thank to Ch Russo, an Argentinian hacker.

Turns out TPB, an icon for filesharers and Copyright defendants alike, wasn't a safe place.
Ironic?
Quite.

What does it mean?
Well, with a bit of injection knowledge, Ch managed to get hold of all user information in the databases at TPB, usernames, e-mails and any other information people might have put there.

Ch also points out that they did not do it out of anger, or for commercial value.
As one would expect from old-school hackers, they did it because they could.
They went in, declared victory and left.
Maybe some ethical and moral lessons can be found for todays script-kids messing with stuff...

Apple - Flash and Greed; Where is the truth?

A year ago I bought my first iPhone.
I love it still and I can barely remember life before my iPhone..
It really does everything I never thought I needed to do.

It checks my mail, let's me play games, handles my sms, my msn (although through an expensive app as, not all that surprising, Microsofts own app is horrible), is a click away from wikipedia, more games, a lot of games, youtube videos, audiobooks, music.. And rarely, phonecalls.
On the other hand my old cellphones were all more a burden than anything, I never make calls, I rarely pick up calls, and on that note people learn to not call me, and I get 2-3 sms a month. Roughly.
So the step to iPhone was welcome and I'm a bit in love with it.
I also saw that half-arsed games sold in numbers I couldn't dream of..

Some apps that sell well are terrible and I'd feel dirty selling products that abuses people's weaknesses just to make money.
But there are good ones too. Really good ones. And people make really good money on it.

So, I bought a Macbook, which I came to love for work. The simplicity of the UI and the well planned memory management that I used to do manually in Windows/Linux...
Not needing virus protection and software firewalls.. (Don't bother, there are two hardware ones up. :P)
I still use the Macbook as we speak. I nearly never use the PC anymore. Despite the fact that I've invested A LOT in it. It's a monster and I've built it myself, piece by piece. Everything is customized and the chassi is silent yet brilliantly planned.
I only play games on it now.. I never have use for it. And compared to a Mac I'd say I've spent about the same amount as I would've had I bought a Mac.

Right, so I bought the Macbook, started coding things, got a job on the side, earned a little extra.. And realized.. I need an iPad.
Why?
God knows... I just wanted it and I always felt that my first real salary should be wasted on toys. Just the first one and only once, but I wasn't going to feel shame about spending it all.
So I bought an iPad. Cheap, sure, but none the less. It's not even released in Sweden yet (Mystery to me.)
And I fell in love with it. It's faster than my iPhone, sleeker than my Macbook and now I rarely use my iPhone or Macbook except for work or being outside of WiFi areas.

A year ago I was a hardcore PC user with a natural hatred towards Macs and everything Apple stood for.
It's odd isn't it?
As a Mac user (Not a fan, but very much a user. My Apple products have a total value of nearly twice that of my PC so...) I'm not against Windows, nor do I have a deep hatred towards Microsoft.
Sure, Ballmer doesn't rank high in my book, but still.

I notice that PC users and Mac users have a weird war going on between each other (As we all know) yet it feels like the PC users are the ones fighting.
I feel better with Mac. I don't hate things in the same way as I looked down on Apple...


But that's not what I'm here to talk about.
See, it struck me, as an avid gamer and game-junkie (Yes I'm addicted and I'm trying to cut down. I don't play online games anymore, but flash games.... Nomnomnom) that something's foul here...
I used to frequent quite many Flash game sites. And I still do.
On my PC.
I can't play many games on the Macbook. No reason why except it acts up weird and some things don't seem to function properly. No idea why though.....
Until I came across one of my bigger addictions in Flash games. In the iTunes store.
And I came to see what's going on here.

See, the iPad and iPhone can't play Flash at all.
The Macbook can but it's dodgy to say the least.
Apple is known to not regard Adobe highly and Adobe are known to be selfish, ignorant and overglorified.
Apple has bailed Adobe out at least twice during the years, also Steve Jobs noted on D8 that they would gladly implement Flash if Adobe made a mobile platform that doesn't drain battery.

However.. That's not all there is to this..

Steve Jobs wrote a long open letter about Adobe and Flash and you'll find lines like

"Adobe’s Flash products are 100% proprietary. They are only available from Adobe, and Adobe has sole authority as to their future enhancement, pricing, etc. While Adobe’s Flash products are widely available, this does not mean they are open, since they are controlled entirely by Adobe and available only from Adobe. By almost any definition, Flash is a closed system."

and a following statement explaining why Apple is good by choosing HTML5.
There's the whole battery life part and how YouTube and other streaming sites are adapting.
And that's all well.


What you WON'T read is how gaming works...
Gaming is a HUGE industry and for my explanation I'll put forth the 70million users Behemoth Farmville, by Zynga.
Yes, 70million players.
And they all generate money.
Not by paying directly. No it's a free game with optional payments.
All is fair to say it's a big source. Yes. But they also make good money in advertisement.

Farmville is a flash game and as such wasn't available for iPhones and iPads until an App was released so you could play it.
In the app you do the same things, you play the same game and you can buy in-game cash there too.
As in-app purchases.
Which Apple, by default, takes 30% from.
A few games I played for free like Canabalt and others on sites I visited have been ported to iPhone, as it's a major platform.
This however, thanks to Apple, takes time to port and the time invested by the developer is something he asks a small fee in return for on the iPhone. Which is fair, it's extra work.
So you either play the Flash version (On a PC, Mac doesn't handle Flash well, remember?) or you buy the App in iTunes to play it on your iPhone for $0.99.
Which Apple, by default, takes 30% from.

See where this is going?
Flash might drain your battery. Flash might be on the way out. Flash might be replaced by HTML5.
But until then, if you want your game to be played by Mac users, you'll be able to make some extra money from it by selling it in iTunes.
And give Apple 30% of your income.
Or in other words - 30% of the money you earn from a game you provide Free in Flash format.
And Flash isn't available for iPhones, iPads and *barely* Macs....

Google and equality - Proving they are what they stand for.

Recently Google announce that they will be giving same-sex couples a pay raise to cover taxes that the state forces them to pay - For being gay.

Google has a motto, it's "Don't be evil".
And they do seem to live up to that motto.

It turns out that the state of California (Arnie..) doesn't recognize homos right to love in the same way straighties do.
To be fair, homos don't love in the same way as straight people, I can't argue against that.
But what you decide to shove where to show your affection is one thing politics should stay the hell away from. We're talking about love, so stop shoving that thing where we don't want it mr governor.
We're not in the dark ages nor are you the Catholic church.

While I salute Google for their stands, I think it's more important to ignore what Google does to help and instead focus on what the hell they're helping against.
A single state in a single country who decides that 'Nope, your love isn't real and since I don't like my own gender, neither can you'.
In 2010.
In the western world.
What the hell?

Again, cheers for the stand Google, but can someone get those guys running that state the hell out of their positions and elect someone who actually is 1) human 2) capable of love 3) not pants-on-head-retaraded.
Please?

The Pirate Bay to be run from inside the Swedish parliament

Today the Swedish Pirate Party announced that they will be hosting TPB (The Pirate Bay) from inside the Swedish parliament.
Legal? Yes.
Clever? Yes.
Controversial? HELL YES.

But to be fair here, it's an odd thing to do and everyone knows what TPB is about.
There's no hiding from the 'illegal' activities that people are up to on TPB.
But considering the fact that the owners were punished for hosting a website because of what their users did... I'd say this is a big stand for freedom and democracy.

While the current parliament in Sweden is driving through insane laws like illegalizing legal items because they might become illegal, and skipping the process of a fair trial if the culprit 'agrees' to a sentence, I'm glad to see there's someone on the other side of this insanity trying to save mankind while there is still hope.


The thing is - Once something becomes a symbol for a group, you're out in deep water trying to crush that symbol. Now add to this that the group is a political movement on their way into parliament.
Heck imagine trying to convince the Buddhists that their Swastika is evil and they should change it.
Try talking the red following into changing their image of Che Guevara into something 'more representative of who he really was'.
Or while we're at it, why not try to convince the British football supporters that they should drink milk during matches instead.

Go on.

No?
Now try to close down The Pirate Bay.

Tydligen så är det brottsligt att kunna begå brott..

Förra månaden hade aftonbladet en artikel om regeringens charmig lagförslag om att polisen ska få beslagta lagliga ämnen för att dom kan bli olagliga i framtiden
Med sittande regering i Blått är det inte utan att jag måste fråga - Vad händer nu då?
Tydligen är det OK enligt de folkvalda Blåa att lagarna regleras av varje polismans magkänsla.
Visst, en polis måste gå på känsla ibland, när så nöden kräver och lagen inte tillhandahåller en riktlinje.

Men att legalisera beslagtagandet av lagliga ägodelar under premissen att dom har en potential för att bli olagliga i framtiden?
Förlåt om jag är lite känslig men jag gillar när lagar är strukturerade och tydliga och inte innehåller fotnoter som säger "Om du känner för det"..

Med det sagt frågar jag mig, om det här är ok för de Blåa, vad är mer ok? Vart slutar det och var är vi på väg? Vågar vi verkligen ge dom friheten att bestämma i fyra år till?

ComHem tror på privaliv

Ja, jag skriver om gamla nyheter.

IFPI vill ha tag på information om "en rätt vanlig fildelare".
ComHem vill att EU-domstolen ska reda ut vad som gäller eftersom lagar går emot varandra.

Men musikorganisationen Ifpi tycker att Comhem bara vill förhindra rättvisans gång.

"- Vi beklagar Comhems inställning. Vi anser att rättsläget är så klart att det är onödigt att fråga EU-domstolen om råd. Det här gör Comhem för att fördröja processen. Det är en klar linje bland operatörerna att göra allt för att förhindra rättvisans gång, säger Ifpis vd Lars Gustafsson till TT."

Det är inte utan att man gnisslar tänderna lite när man inser att det är den här typen av människor som någonstans har fått rätt att anklaga dig för saker som du gör i ditt eget hem.
Människor som anser att det är "onödigt att fråga EU-domstolen om råd"...
För tydligen är det onödigt att allt går rätt till?
Vår kära regering tycker att människor som anser att en rättvis och objektiv behandling är onödig, ska få agera poliser....

...Är det svar nog om varför jag anser att det är viktigt att vi förhindrar organisationer med ekonomiska intressen när dom försöker kränka våra privatliv och skapa ett samhälle där rättsväsendet utgår från att vi alla är kriminella, men utan en dom. Än.

Lars Vilks - Hot or Not?

Lars Vilks is a hot topic. And for some reason there are many different opinions about him.
I've read and commented. I've discussed and argued.

And I think it's my turn to make a post about it and let people yell at me now.

Personally, I'm believe Lars Vilks is good fun. He makes news more entertaining than yet another car crash we won't see bodies from.
And I hope his actions will reach out to those who need to react...

See, Lars Vilks painted some picture, which people argue is bad art. It's racism. It's insulting. It's respectless. And whatnot.
First of all - I've seen "good" art.
Lars Vilks isn't half bad compared to some things Picasso and other painters did...
Second - It isn't racism at any point. It's a religious context and religion, bar Jews, are not 'races' at any point.
Third - Everything is insulting to Someone
And Fourth - Respect and Art..? C'mon.


Right. Let's go through a few points here.
Lars Vilks has drawn a picture of someone who is very much dead and has no close relatives still alive.
So with that said: He isn't making it personal. It wasn't anyone's mother who was drawn as a whore.
He was attacked by a bunch of nutters during a lecture at a university. To which he was invited. To talk about controversial art. And he showed images of sexual act involving Mohammed.
Right. Did you also know what he did before that?
He showed a painting with Jesus on the cross, dipped into urine.
He showed the Pope being hit by a meteorite. (I'd assume a painting of it..)
He also showed a crucifix with a large penis in it..
Noone really cared. Heck they were at a lecture about controversial art. Why would they?
Then he showed images from a piece of art a woman in Iran had created (And had to leave the country for...) that depicted Mohammed doing sexy stuff.

I've personally been using internet since I was a child. I've seen things.
Let me share a few things with you:
*A picture of the norse god Thor, holding a hammer, with the text "My god has a hammer, your god was nailed to a cross. Any questions?"

*A picture of a skeleton on a crucifix, branded with a Microsoft logo, with a small demon engaging in sexual activities with an eyesocket.

*The joke "6 millions Jews can't be wrong, it's fun to go camping!"

*An image of Jesus on the cross with the text "Shit happens fucking carpenter."

Now in my daily life in the real world I see Nazis, marching yearly in demonstrations and whatnot.
I hear people openly deny the holocaust. I see so many jokes about priests fondling choir boys I've lost count. I've discussed the fact that Jesus was a pussy and that I would've been more eager to believe in God if he was still nailed to that cross.. 2000 years later. Begging for death.


All these things belong to my daily life. I laughed at most of them at first. Now they're getting a bit old.
But at no point did I hear the Pope, some protestant movement, jews or even Microsoft put a prize on someone's head.
Lars Vilks has a prize on his head. And he painted a picture of a wooden dog, which was already a part of Swedish art for some reason, with a bearded guy in a turban.
He was attacked for appearing at a university for showing controversial images on the subject of controversial images. But only by one group.

I'm not going to discuss art, quality or legal rights. We all know the image was shite. We all know Vilks is actively provoking people. And we all know he's entitled to this.

What I want to know, and someone please tell me, is why there are still just one group of Muslims!?
Why do Muslims not have the same divide as Catholicism and Protestants?
Sure, a bunch of knitwits are obviously pissed as hell over an old Swede who drew a picture.
They've been burning flags, and mockups of our prime minister (Which I may or may not enjoy watching, but that's besides the point) and still there are people who refer to a whole group of people as Muslims.
Where are the sane Muslims? Who don't want to burn flags? Who just ain't gonna wear burkas? Who won't stand for being beaten? Who won't marry more than two, max three, wives? Who just want to sell me my cheap turkish-esque COMMANDO Bear 2000 (Red Bull... Kinda) and get on with their lives?

Personally, I would've said "Fuck them, they ain't no Muslims, they're Mohammed worshippers!
I see Muslims every day.
Well I think I do because anyone looking slightly not-pale-as-a-ghost in a beard or any type of cloth on the head I label as a Muslim. So do you.
Why?
Because that's the only reference to them I have!
I don't label black people as slaves. I don't label Asians as kamikaze pilots.
Why? Because they're pretty damn clear about slavery and kamikaze (Or Christianity, Buddhism or Shogun's).
Why are all middle-eastern people Muslims?
I don't like it. And I hope they'll change.
But it's up to them. As it stands today, if you're middle eastern and wear any head cover, have a beard or just don't make an effort to look European, you're a Muslim. Just like the suicide bombers, Al-Qaeida (spelling?!?!?!), Bin Laden, women in burkas, men with +10 wives and as Skeleton shouting "Silence!"...
Black people defeated slavery.
Jews survived Nazis.
Russia ... Well is still Russia. Not Soviet.
Can't someone put some effort into helping the rest of us, semi-racist, every day drones, see a difference between a suicide bomber and the guy in Alhumidis Groceries? Seriously. It'd help.


Where was I?
Right. Lars Vilks.
Lars Vilks is forcing up a debate around this. And I thank him for it.
He's going to get killed. Muslims are going to get shunned. Wars might start.
The US will elect another moron for president and I'll still be buying my COMMANDO Bear 2000.
But the guy behind the counter might not be smiling as much... And that bothers me.

To continue this, we have the National parties who lift forth Lars Vilks as some kind of martyr for their cause.
What a bunch of idiots.
The people who vote for them.
The National parties obviously have good reason for it. Votes.
Those that vote on them however...
Lars Vilks has sparked a debate about Muslims. And that shows we need to stop letting them near us.
And we do that by working towards removing immigration.
Right.
I agree, we need to reduce the immigration numbers. They're sky high. It's terrible.
But building a wall between ourselves and the 'others'?
Didn't anyone watch Avatar!?
You can't solve issues by turning your back on them...
Ever tried to cure aggressive cancer by pretending it's not there? Yeah that's not healthy.
Hoooow abooout.... Solving the problems that cause the immigration?
"Immigrants wanting free money and leech on our society?"
Yeah. No.
If that was the reason, why are there so few British immigrants in the rest of Europe?

So let me share a secret with you:
The main cause for high immigration numbers is because some other country has high EMIGRATION.
Those countries are war torn and devastated. It's an open wound that nationalists are trying to solve with a band-aid....