From bsjohnso at midway.uchicago.edu Tue Apr 29 12:24:14 2003 From: bsjohnso at midway.uchicago.edu (Benjamin Johnson) Date: Thu May 18 12:41:36 2006 Subject: [Cs22800] Lance Spitzner Talk Message-ID: <3EAEB53E.6080700@midway.uchicago.edu> To those of you from the fall, we have finally secured Lance Spitzner for coming to speak. To those of you who are from the winter and/or spring, Lance is a good speaker and a well-known figure in the computer security community. Friday, May 2nd, 2003 2:30 PM -- Ryerson 251 Refreshments to Follow LANCE SPITZNER Head of the Honeynet Project and Author of Honeypots: Tracking Hackers http://www.honeynet.org/ | http://www.tracking-hackers.com/ THE VALUE OF HONEYPOTS ?Lance Spitzner, founder of the Honeynet Project, will discuss this emerging new security technology and its value to the security community. He will explain what honeypots are, their advantages and disadvantages, examples of how they work, and real world incidents involving hacked honeypots.? From kft at users.sourceforge.net Sat May 3 02:44:54 2003 From: kft at users.sourceforge.net (Ken Tsang) Date: Thu May 18 12:41:36 2006 Subject: [Cs22800] Fire project proposal/goals Message-ID: <217EEA4D-7D3B-11D7-97DC-000393D2CEEA@users.sourceforge.net> Eric Lee Ken Tsang CS22800 Spring 2003 Free Software Practicum FIRE What is Fire? ------------- Fire is a multi-protocol (AOL Instant Messenger/ICQ/Internet Relay Chat/Jabber/MSN Messenger/Yahoo! Messenger) instant messaging client for Mac OS X. What is our involvement? ------------------------ Our intention originally was to provide significant (and well-needed) user interface improvements to be incorporated into the 1.0 release of Fire, currently scheduled for the end of May. The ultimate goal for Fire is to replace completely a user's reliance on any official, protocol-specific instant messaging clients. The modest goal for 1.0 is to polish up what work has currently been done on this project (which dates back to 1999) so that it merits the bump from 0.32.d to 1.0. What have we done? ------------------ Our contributions to the project thus far have merited our being granted full Developer status. So far, this work has included minor projects, such as porting the "smileys" from the Windows ICQ client and editing the buddy info windows so they are resizable. Ken has also provided a complete localization for both Simplified and Traditional Chinese systems for the current 0.32 branch, and will be bringing Chinese to 1.0 when the localization freeze takes place sometime in May. What is to come? ---------------- While we might have been satisfied with minor, yet crucial, cleanup tasks that would ensure a professional-level release, we have taken on the larger task of reforming the Preferences user interface, which can currently be considered "a bit confusing." The task at hand is not minor and will take some serious planning and several rounds of approval. Planned Timeline ---------------- 05/31/2003 - Commit redone Preferences 05/24/2003 - Make changes, resubmit for approval 05/17/2003 - Make changes, resubmit for approval 05/10/2003 - Submit initial list of changes for approval by other devs 05/03/2003 - Finish making list of all current and requested preferences URLs ---- http://fire.sourceforge.net mailto:ericlee1@midway.uchicago.edu mailto:kftsang@cs.uchicago.edu From kftsang at cs.uchicago.edu Sat May 3 02:51:04 2003 From: kftsang at cs.uchicago.edu (Ken Tsang) Date: Thu May 18 12:41:36 2006 Subject: [Cs22800] profanity lists in Fire Message-ID: A few weeks ago, I think Ziba expressed disappointment that the profanity filter lists were not populated with defaults in Fire. Well, it turns out that the filter never actually worked. No worries, one of the core developers finally went ahead and finished it. And populated the list. Some of the tamer ones include "my god" and "stuffed." (???) A new task of mine is supposed to be to populate the profanity lists for the languages I did (Simplified and Traditional Chinese). He suggested looking them up online, if we localizers were unable to come up with a thorough list. Oh boy, this is gonna be fun. Remind me to show off the English list during class next week, for everyone's edification. Ken