Links September 2020

MD5 cracker, find plain text that matches MD5 hash [1].

Debian Quick Image Baker – Debian VM images for various architectures [2].

Insightful article on Scientific American about how dental and orthodontic problems are caused by our modern lifestyle [3].

Cory Doctorow wrote an insightful article for Locus Magazine about Intellectual Property [4]. He makes the case that we are losing our rights due to changes in the legal system that benefits corporations.

Anarcat has an informative blog post about how to stop people using your Mailman installation to attack others [5]. Since version 1:2.1.27-1 the Debian package of Mailman has created a SUBSCRIBE_FORM_SECRET by default on install, but any installation upgraded from an older version of the Debian package won’t have it.

• [1] https://md5.j4ck.com/
• [2] https://people.debian.org/~gio/dqib/
• [3] http://tinyurl.com/ya79cvn4
• [4] https://locusmag.com/2020/09/cory-doctorow-ip/
• [5] https://anarc.at/blog/2020-09-21-mailman-psa/