From Peter Busser’s email to the RSBAC ML:

I have compiled a number of RSBAC and Adamantix packages for Debian Sarge . This allows Debian Sarge users to benefit from some of the Adamantix features…

Adamantix started like Hardened Debian. Using well tested and stable Debian base, they added a lot of modern security stuff: PaX , SSP , RSBAC , making the distro one of the best choices for servers. I was involved in the early stages of the project but stopped contributing, because I was short of time. Still I’m following their progress and I’m happy to see good stuff going to the mainstream Debian also.

For homework: Chicken – Scheme-to-C compiler – CHICKEN is a compiler that translates R5RS Scheme into portable C using a technique developed by Henry Baker (“Cheney on the M.T.A.”).

Via Stu’s Diary :

AccessFS from Olaf Dietsche allows the system administrator to restrict access to a network port based on uid/gui, so that daemons no longer need to run as the root user:

# mount -t accessfs none /proc/access
# chown www /proc/access/net/ip/bind/80
# chown mail /proc/access/net/ip/bind/25

Via Exploration Age

The issue of Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in web applications has been getting a lot of attention lately due to hacks on high-profile sites such as LiveJournal…The attached file ( html_escaper.rb ) makes it easy to protect your Ruby on Rails applications from these attacks…

Is your router properly configured?

• Download the .torrent file
• Paste the torrent link into DumpTorrent
• Copy the hash ID from its output into NatCheck page

(theme_generator version 1.3.0)

Theme Generator Shapes Up

• The theme support is now completely encapsulated in a plugin
• fully supports custom application views
• supports using liquid templates
• and it?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s dead simple to use ;)

rails myapp && cd myapp && ./script/plugin install \
  http://techno-weenie.net/svn/projects/acts_as_authenticated/
./script/generate authenticated user account
./script/generate authenticated_mailer user

Joi Ito's blog entry pointed me to Shinkuro – an engrish for synchro – IM, file sharing and collaboration software with a lot of crypto embedded: 2048-bit RSA key pair, 256-bit AES encryption on all messages. And POP3 with plain text ;)