Month: December 2011
hacking 1903 style for the lulz
OK… this story is a bit older than that movie… but it is even cooler – hacking 1903 style for the lulz!
the world’s first hacker movie?
I just watched Hot Millions, a 1968 film which just might be the world’s first hacker film… with Peter Ustinov as the hacker. As a…
this hash can give your servers indigestion
When Microsoft comes out with an out of cycle security advisory (and during a holiday week, no less), you know something big is up. This…
authentication via butt-prints?
From the “you can’t make this stuff up” file… Cars of the future may use the driver’s rear end as identity protection, through a system…
beware the thumb (drive) of doom
So, you just found a USB thumb drive that someone left behind on a bus/train/taxi/spaceship… read this article BEFORE you plug it in to your…
stale java
I hate Java. Not the country or the beverage, but the programming language. Actually, not so much the language, but the way that it is…
noted – the unlikely event
As I am spending the month of December circling the planet on aircraft, this article from The Paris Review resonated with me…