August 2009
8 posts
“Beginnings are always delightful; the threshold is the place to pause.”
– Goethe
Hey, You, Get Off of My Cloud →
Using the Amazon EC2 service as a case study, we show that it is possible to map the internal cloud infrastructure, identify where a particular target VM is likely to reside, and then instantiate new VMs until one is placed co-resident with the target. We explore how such placement can then be used to mount cross-VM side-channel attacks to extract information from a target VM on the same machine.
Eulogy to _why →
_why’s entire online presence and code was presented in the sand mandala that was ‘_why’. The person behind ‘_why’ simply decided to move on and close that portion of his life.
“Fools may rush in where angels fear to tread, but angels, in turn, must make...”
– The Tragicomic Exasperations of Expertise by Venkatesh Rao
popo: Krugman is no psychic. He didn't exactly see the financial meltdown coming in advance...
hirundo: That's not fair. Krugman predicted 11 of the last 3 recessions.
Bender0x7D1: You should be more careful. Mixing binary and decimal notation can really confuse some people.
Why Indians don’t give back to society →
Why don’t we worship Brahma? We know he’s part of the Hindu trinity as the creator, but we worship Vishnu, manager of the cosmos, and Shiva, its eventual destroyer. The answer lies not in religion, but in culture. But in what way does our religion shape our culture?
“Moving is a white lie, a soft arrow.”
– Star Black (Twilit)