Uwe Hermann | A slightly paranoid Debian developer

Oops. Engadget reports that Play-Doh fingers can fool 90% of all fingerprint scanners. This is nothing really new. The remarkable thing is that more and more companies and government organizations rely on such biometric authentication. Now, they all have been told about the problems, but nobody seems to want to listen...

(via Techdirt)

Somebody got hacked by a complete fool without any sort of clue. What the attacker (i.e. script kiddie) tried to do (and how he failed) is actually quite funny IMHO.

E.g., after trying

rm -rf bash_history

(notice the missing dot in the filename) he wanted to be really sure and issued

unset HISTFILES

Surely, his tracks are perfectly covered now. Nobody will ever know.

(via EDV - Ende Der Vernunft)