I wanted to let you know that I just published an article covering the shortcomings of SMTP, the current email infrastructure and how some fixes to problems of SMTP, like SPF and DKIM, are not a real solution.
You can find the article here.
Hi to all of you reading my blog.
It’s been a while now since I last blogged, so this is going to be a long post containing a lot of things that happened.
Let’s start with one of the most important ones for myself. My idea of having an international Fellow meeting has been ‘accepted’ by you, and especially Stefano. I’m more than only pleased by the fact that one of my ideas has finally made it to a stage where it became reality. I’m really looking forward to that meeting on 11th Novembre in Bolzano/Italy and hope to see a lot of you guys there.
Okay, let’s head on to the next topic. I finally found a GNU project I can participate in and do something good(tm). I’m currently undergoing training over at GNU Savannah and am looking forward to eventually become a GNU Savannah hacker sometime. This project might be interesting for some of you aswell, as doing project submissions has a lot to do with advocacy and spreading the word. Oh, and it’s great fun. 🙂
Another thing that has happened is that I finally got rid of my Plone/Zope based homepage. Plone is a nice webpage system, but it’s way too ressource intensive. I’ve now gone back to the roots and my webserver is now serving a static ‘plain-HTML’ page. No CSS, no JavaScript, no ‘fancy’ design, just pure text and information.
Last but not least I’d like to extend my call-to-arms to this blog. I’ve been working on a project lately that should eventually, at some point, have a Free Software malware analyzation/sandboxing tool as outcome. The project is called penalyze2 and works with PE (Windows) executables. What it basically does is emulation of an x86 CPU and a Windows enviroment. This way malicious code can be analyzed without actually infecting a machine. Why I’m writing about a ‘call-to-arms’ is, that I’m still in need of people interested in working on that project. Its current state is that a proof-of-concept works, as in emulating/analyzing a simple helloworld application. The project, code and some more information can be found at penalyze2’s GNU Savannah project page. If you are intersted in this topic go ahead and have a look at the project page (and maybe the todo list as well 😉 ).
That would, or better put, should be all for now.
Happy hacking!
There is a free software (and GNU/Linux) community here in Austria, but there is still one main problem with that community: There is no organization.
A few user groups exist, but not everywhere. For example, in the state I’m living, Carinthia, there is no ‘real’ GNU/Linux user group. There does however exist a message board, but it is only used by a few people and I’m quite sure there are more GNU/Linux users around here. Everything looks pretty unorganised.
Having a look at the nation-wide organisation I also have to admit that it is rather non-existant. There is no main-entity uniting all users and usergroups. In my opinion something like that would make sense. The bigger the group is, the easier it is to get heard by the public and the chances that someone else in that group can help you with a specific problem is also higher.
In my opinion the sadest thing is, that when I asked for other Carinthian Linux users on a mailing list belonging to the "Linux User Group Austria", which should probably rather be called "Linux User Group Vienna", I got only one answer. And that within two days.
There is need for organisation here – there is need to get the users and usergroups united. But how to get them united if you don’t even know, but still hope, that people with similar views and interests exist near you?
So if you are reading this, are living somewhere in Carinthia/Austria and feel like helping to form a usergroup here or help uniting Austrian users, give me a shout via email: sp at fsfe dot org