Browsing my blogs title on google i spotted someone making out under the very same label. What the foxtrot… there can only be one Zaphod and his ancestors. I am so gonna sue this guy. ;P ;-)

It seems someone leaked my promotion video for the upcoming galactic presidential elections to youtube. To whoever did that: I’m so gonna steal your ship. Arrr! ;-)

In the official google blog Mike Jazayeri, product manager for google talk writes that you can now subscribe to google talk even without having a gmail account. It has been quite some time now that they opened up their servers to the xmpp world, meaning that google talk users can basically reach anyone with a jabber account and vice versa. In fact the client protocol they use is jabber, so you can use any jabber client to connect to it. Here is how.

I run a connection to google talk as the fifth! jabber connection on my psi jabber client and it seems very stable to me. Yes thats a lot — i administer two jabber servers and off course like to know whats going on with those that some of my friends are responsible for.

In his paper Hot or Not: Revealing Hidden Services by their Clock Skew Steven J. Murdoch shows how internet anonymity services like tor can be tricked remotely into revealing the path a users data takes on their network.

This is his blog entry on the topic.

Time to go berzerk with ip timestamping — go let your tor node mimic as OpenVMS. ;-)