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Comment on Double click for new terminal by MikeP

MikeP — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 15:08:23 +0000

I'm not sure where you've gotten stuck, I suspect it's at the File|Export stage. Have a look at
Screenshot 1, which shows Script Editor exporting, and
Screenshot 2, which shows what your icon should look like. Note that I've told my Finder to show all extensions, yours might be just called Whatever, instead of Whatever.app.

Comment on Double click for new terminal by Derek

Derek — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 07:20:32 +0000

Hmm, the command doesn’t seem to work for me or maybe I just did not do it correctly. Maybe you could have included a screenshot of what it should look like after the process so that I would know whether or not I messed it up.

Comment on Mein Name ist by MikeP

MikeP — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 14:16:50 +0000

Oh yeah, forgot about MikeP. And I sometimes use that on blog comments and the like. Like here.

Also forgot about military service; I was usually just Patterson, but sometimes addressed by rank (Private, Corporal Patterson) and occasionally by nickname: Killer. For obvious reasons, if you’ve met me.

Comment on Mein Name ist by That Dawn Person

That Dawn Person — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 12:00:03 +0000

You’re also referred to by some as MikeP, though to me at work you’re mostly [ or soc, sometimes mpatters. Away from work, the variant depends on context.

Comment on Doing pcap stuff with Ruby on a Mac by packetfu followup » Mike's Blawg

packetfu followup » Mike's Blawg — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 16:09:43 +0000

[...] went back to packetfu today (see here for my first talk about it) for a large collection of pcaps I have (about 30GB worth) hoping to use [...]

Comment on Firesheep: black hats for the masses by Credential theft, mitigations thereof » Mike's Blawg

Credential theft, mitigations thereof » Mike's Blawg — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 17:22:01 +0000

[...] and rejected this advice for our own advisory (my own nearly identical blog post on it is here) when discussing [...]

Comment on Doing pcap stuff with Ruby on a Mac by MikeP

MikeP — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 23:54:57 +0000

No worries, I haven’t gone back to re-visit it any time since. Should I try again? I know I ran into problems with nmap-parse and Ruby 1.8 that were solved, in part, by moving to 1.9.

Comment on Doing pcap stuff with Ruby on a Mac by todb

todb — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 23:41:52 +0000

Hey, thanks for confirming that pcaprub and packetfu at least work in your crazy mac os. Some day I’ll score a proper apple dev environment to make it suck less for you guys.

Comment on Firesheep: black hats for the masses by wremes

wremes — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 19:26:11 +0000

Hey Mike,

good overview of the issue. I would provide links to those sites that provide full session SSL and how to configure them (like : https://account.live.com/ManageSSL).

I would also include a reminder that your WIDS will detect session hijacking so use of FireSheep is strongly discouraged ;-)

Comment on UNC faculty member held responsible for security breach by MikeP

MikeP — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 23:21:09 +0000

Yes, there’s a ton of the story missing. I found a bit more of it, which I’ll fill in later, but really, there’s a whole pile of fail here. The problem is if you disperse responsibility, nobody gets held accountable (that’s why we like committees and groups so much!) but you still get breaches.