August 2009 Site Statistics

Written by: SAJChurchey Published by: SAJChurchey Published on: 2009-09-01 18:46:59 Topic: OSI Diary

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A good month with lots of new members and a few new articles and tests.

Report for period - (01/08/2009 - 31/08/2009) Produced by sajchurchey for the Open Source Institute on Tuesday, the 1st of September 2009 06PM Members A total of 805 new members joined OSIX in this period, this compares to 228 new users for the same period in the previous year. There is a grand total of 18215 OSIX members. Articles In this period 4 articles were submitted and authorised, this compares to 1 articles for the same period in the previous year. On 31/08/2009 there was a total of 769 articles hosted on the site, which had been collectively viewed 8643591 times. There were 0 unique referers viewing articles during this period. Forums The forums recieved 117 posts by 45 people. This compares to 122 posts in the same period of the previous year. OSIDrive The OSIDrive had 5 files uploaded totalling 0.295 Mb. This compares to 2 files of 0.003 Mb for the same period of the previous year. OSIDrive is currently holding 37.124 Mb of files for 17993 users within a total of 36109 subfolders. CoDebug The pastebin has been used 1 times. This compares to 2 times in the same period of the previous year. Polls A total of 26 votes were cast in this period. This compares to 41 votes for the same period of the previous year. Geek Challenges A total of 234 Geek levels were passed, this compares with 380 geek levels being passed same period of the previous year. Reward Points There are a total of 260196 reward points currently allocated to members. The following users represent the top ten OSIX reward point holders... sfabriz with 1202 points. paranoia with 1076 points. batterseapower with 955 points. atreyu with 935 points. cvoila with 926 points. Domuk with 910 points. keith91 with 900 points. manLoserish with 899 points. aidan with 898 points. bb with 887 points. Geek Test Centre 1 Tests were created in this period, this compares with 0 tests in the same period in the previous year. 67 users participated in tests in this period, this compares with 76 users completing tests in the same period of the previous year. Geek or Freak 192 Geek or Freak pictures are currently stored. 66 votes have been cast in this period, this compares to 60 votes for the same period in the previous year. Period Summary Overall, activity is still plentiful and on part with our statistics from last year. We even saw improvements in several categories. I would like to thank MaxMouse for his articles this month, and I would also like to thank mattman059 for his Math Test this month. Silverknight is still working on his Tech Portal and todd434 is still working on Hermes, now he is looking to include sticky note functionality. If you would like to help either of these members with their projects, just send them a PM.

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Comments: Domuk 2009-09-01 19:59:04 Hadn't noticed monthly membership had rocketed so much. Good work! MaxMouse 2009-09-01 20:43:35 I'm a member of the PSP homebrew scene, some of the PSP's encryption is quite hardcore, so OSIX has come up in conversation a few times, hopefully a percentage of those new memberships come from the PSP Community. MaxMouse 2009-09-01 20:44:53 Maybe i should write a PSP Encryption article, not sure how much interest it would be to the general populous though... Domuk 2009-09-02 12:39:29 I used to follow the community so would be interested in this. MaxMouse 2009-09-02 14:13:03 Really, why did you stop? If i where to write an article on the PSP, it would probably be around NIDS (Can be thought of as API's). There are still a lot of unknowns, some of the encryption algorithms and the precise method of executable signing specifically. Writing software for the PSP is still not for the faint of heart either, compiling the toolchain and environment takes all night! Then there is very little in the way of support (Obviously) the result is, a "hacky" feel to each piece of source you see. manLoserish 2009-09-02 17:36:25 I'd certainly give it a read MaxMouse. Also, I clicked on the members link(up in the article there) and down the bottom where there's the list of the number of people that joined each month, I found this: [...] February 2004 165 January 2004 187 December 2003 240 September 2003 1 May 1903 1 I'd never actually noticed that before, lol. Domuk 2009-09-02 19:55:03 I mostly stopped when I entirely discounted it as a development platform (based on the homebrew I saw), and DA pretty much had the other side of things taken care of. MaxMouse 2009-09-02 20:20:00 Dom, The funniest part is, for an "Open Source" community, there is a whole lot of homebrew and indeed, firmware/hacks etc that are closed source lol Well, when i get some time I'll do a snippet on PSP-NIDS, what they are, how to crack them, and the issues encountered when doing so :) PS: what's with the May 1903 thing?! lol Domuk 2009-09-03 19:40:13 Guessed who it was on my first try, it's think12. He likes to play - I'll give you a prize if you figure out what's significant about that date/time. MaxMouse 2009-09-04 10:44:12 1903-05-07 15:25:01 7th May, 1903 at 03:25:01PM 1903+5+7+15+25+1 = 1956 1903+5+7+3+25+1 = 3874 07 05 19 03 15 25 01 (All prime numbers except 15 and 25) ... Google doesn't say much... I dunno.. clue? Domuk 2009-09-04 18:55:26 You could try looking up the UNIX timestamp for that time. MaxMouse 2009-09-04 20:16:08 -2103438899 - Errm... lol... Domuk 2009-09-05 16:49:18 Maybe it's significant in some other base, or representation... and maybe it's something significant, but obviously modified? CodeX 2009-09-05 20:50:49 it could be phone number, in Bexar, Texas? Although I thought it would be Canadian though judging by think12's location CodeX 2009-09-05 21:13:11 maybe even the IP 125.95.238.51 Domuk 2009-09-06 00:27:40 Ha, nice idea with the IP address. It could also be worth looking at what the IP would be when the timestamp's negative? I'm guessing you'd want one .ca or .uk. CodeX 2009-09-06 04:39:32 Signed uint32_t - 10000010101000000001000111001101 IP - 130.160.17.205 Location - Tuscaloosa , Alabama , United States ISP - The University of Alabama Unsigned uint32_t - 01111101010111111110111000110011 IP - 125.95.238.51 Location - Daliang, Guangdong, China ISP - ChinaNet Guangdong Province Network neither are registered on DNS and and TCP scanning hasn't shown up anything yet, this feels like a hackthissite challenge CodeX 2009-09-06 05:13:41 Signed Reversed IP - 205.17.160.130 Location - Wichita, Kansas, United States ISP - Naval Ocean Systems Center Unsigned Reversed IP - 51.238.95.125 Location - Bridgewater, Somerset, United Kingdom ISP - UK Government Department for Work and Pensions haven't done a port scan but suspect IP is the wrong tree to be barking up MaxMouse 2009-09-07 20:30:52 I give up, spill the beans Dom. Domuk 2009-09-08 23:21:38 Ha! It's not significant at all, as far as I know. I was looking into it myself though, and wanted to see if people would go down the same routes I did, or come up with something new. The best I was hoping to find out myself was a real date with a few figures added, but I didn't even get that. Who randomly puts in a date like that? Did he just make it a few months before Sep 2003, and then figure, hell, I'll go a century earlier? Domuk 2009-09-08 23:24:12 However, three points to you, MaxMouse, and five to you, CodeX. CodeX 2009-09-09 07:55:52 woot :D Maybe the date was made using a rough calculation e.g. s = 1 m = 60 s h = 60 m da = 24 h mo = 30 da ye = 12 mo so the date was intended to be around 1970-01-01 00:00:00 - 67-7-15 8:34:59 or something like that, however just doing it because you can sounds perfectly reasonable too and I'm happy believing that MaxMouse 2009-09-09 11:40:15 lulz we where had! - I don't see a reason behind it, but it does seem a rather random thing to use... anyone asked think12 about it? CodeX 2009-09-23 03:25:55 I've got it, its a one time pad! The cyphertext is: 0xffffffff82a011cd (uint64_t of timestamp) and the key is 0xa79a9b90c1807885 when these two are combined you get 0x5865646f43206948 which on a big endian platform forms the bytes like so in the memory: 48 69 20 43 6f 64 65 58 interpreted as ascii this produces: Hi CodeX :D solved, not exactly sure what generated the key but its obviously the solution, at a rough guess the key was generated by: (2^8)*(5^3)*11*303119*113190023 something else was that I probably wasn't even using the alias CodeX when think12 joined so that makes another mystery :O Domuk 2009-09-23 19:53:29 Well, it all adds up... MaxMouse 2009-09-24 10:02:58 All i can say is WTF CodeX?! Seriously... WTF?! and your on level 8? 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