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Filtering mail server side with Sieve, part 1
Like us, you might receive a lot of mail and read it from different locations, using different mail programs, on different kinds of devices, including mobile. If not all mail is relevant at all...
Aug 31, 2010 read more
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Next step MySQL: using views to improve performance
When developers start using MySQL as a storage backend, they quickly find out how to insert, update, delete, and retrieve data. But often enough, progress tends to stop there, and problems arise...
Aug 14, 2010 read more
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Running your own microblogging service
Microblogging services such as Twitter and identi.ca have become very popular. Instead of registering with an existing service you can also quite easily run your own microblogging service, using...
Jul 28, 2010 read more
Binary audit tool released as FOSS project
Loohuis Consulting and Opendawn are proud to announce the release of the Binary Analysis Tool. This helps make it easier and cheaper to look inside binary code, find inadvertent compliance issues, and reduce uncertainty around the deployment of Free and Open Source Software.
The Binary Analysis Tool is a modular framework that assists compliance and due diligence activities by using the same type of approach that gpl-violations.org applies to discover license issues in consumer electronics. It supplements the manual analysis techniques traditionally used to audit code by:
- Looking into binary code compiled for multiple architectures;
- Detecting programs contained inside that code;
- Detecting fragments of programs inside that code.
The tool is focused on firmware analysis. It currently features automated extraction of the version and configuration of BusyBox , extraction of file systems , automated checking for the Linux kernel, brute force scanning of firmware and feeding known information through a knowledgebase.
The Binary Analysis Tool is freely available under the Apache license so that everyone can use, study, share and improve it, and participate in further development on the project homepage.
You can learn more about the tool and download it without charge at http://www.binaryanalysis.org