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!

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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