] This SWIPE tool allows you to crack a 2D barcode. Ever
] noticed the barcode on the backside of your license?

Download the program or upload a GIF or JPG of a barcode and find out whats on it. Very, Very cool.

The SWIPE Toolkit

There were 10x the total number of downloads over the lifetime of the project in a single day.

/. Effect of Stripe Snoop homepage (jpg)

I was just the co-host of Binary Revolution Radio, a weekely hacking show done out of FL, hosted by StankDawg (www.binrev.com).

A cool show where we talked about lots of topics, including Stripe Snoop.

The show notes should be posted here (http://www.binrev.com/radio/archive.html) here soon.

Acidus on Binrev radio [MP3]

Somewhere, someone failed because they needed yesterday what you only finished today.

Don't wait. Go.

Mantra #1

] "If you're 15 and angry at your dad, you want to go and
] break something. But the biggest part of hacking is
] creation," notes "Acidus," a speaker at a Friday panel on
] intellectual property and technology.

The line that got be the biggest applause was "Do you think Marconi and Tesla could have built the radio if the telegraph was a little black box you couldn't open? We are selling out our future inventors and innovators for the short terms profits of the RIAA."

USATODAY.com - Hackers have HOPE

] We got to listen to Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple
] computer and hacker legend speak today with his HOPE
] keynote.

This speech has something I had never seen in countless shows about Woz or Apple. It talks about *why* he did and thought the way he did, as well as how he taught kids in school.

Steve Wozniak HOPE Keynote for download

Acidus wrote:

] "Fuck you and your adjectives" -Rattle

You forgot a couple of mine...

"Is this the 'bad part' of town?"

"Nick, you realise that if you were a politician your career would now be over."

RE: Quotes From HOPE 5

] The Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Computer
] Emergency Readiness Team touched off a storm this week
] when it recommended for security reasons using browsers
] other than Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer.

Ouch!

DHS/CERT: Don't use IE

] Rumsfeld told reporters at a briefing yesterday that he
] may have used the phrase "take that to the bank" but that
] no final decision had been made to go to war.
]
] "To my knowledge, a decision had not been taken by the
] president to go to war at that meeting," Rumsfeld said.
] "There was certainly nothing I said that should have
] suggested that, and any suggestion to the contrary would
] not be accurate."

Thats fucking classic. Congradulations dumbass, you are no longer credible.

Pentagon Deleted Rumsfeld Comment (washingtonpost.com)

] Asked about the 2.6 million jobs forecast, McClellan
] said, "The president is interested in actual jobs being
] created rather than economic modeling."
]
] He quoted Bush as saying, "I'm not a statistician. I'm
] not a predictor."

I almost memed this. How long has it been since that interview? Thats fairly fast turn around time for a backpedal! I wonder if he blurted out the wrong number and they are running damage control.

CNN.com - White House downplays job predictions - Feb. 18, 2004