Dominic White

Entries from January 2008

 

Year 2038 Unix Time Overflow

Heard of the year 2038 unix clock overflow bug? The 30th preversary is at 3am this Saturday. If any of your banks are using 32-bit Unix systems to do 30 year home loan calculation you may soon hear about this.

singe@platform:~$ uname -a
Linux platform 2.6.15-27-server #1 SMP Fri Dec 8 18:43:54 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux
singe@platform:~$ sudo date -u 011903142038.06
Tue Jan 19 03:14:00 UTC 2038
singe@platform:~$ date
Tue Jan 19 05:14:07 SAST 2038
singe@platform:~$ date
Fri Dec 13 22:15:52 SAST 1901

Wednesday, January 16. 2008
Posted by Dominic White in Geek
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Jeremy Clarkson makes Himself an Identity Theft Victim

After Jeremy Clarkson (of Top Gear fame) published his bank details, to prove that identity theft based on the now famous lost British CDs was overblown, he became a victim of identity theft and had 500 pounds fraudulently stolen from his account and deposited to the British Diabetic Association.

While I don't condone the action, it is a bit of a modern day Robin Hood story. Who wants the screen play to "Hackers in Tights"?

Tuesday, January 8. 2008
Posted by Dominic White in Security
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