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PhreakNIC Hacker Convention |
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1:55 am EDT, Oct 10, 2002 |
"PhreakNIC is Nashville's annual hacker con. Anyone is welcome to attend. We create an environment where people who are interested in the more underground elements of technology can meet, exchange ideas and hopefully teach/learn. The primary focus is on computers and computer security, but we also cover other topics, such as radio (ham, pirate & low-power/community), SETI work, robotics, high-power rocketry, satellites, phones and phreaking, cryptography, etc. We are planning interesting things for our sixth year - please join us." PhreakNIC Hacker Convention |
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All the News Google Algorithms Say Is Fit to Print |
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7:18 pm EDT, Sep 24, 2002 |
Google, the rapidly growing online search engine, introduced a service yesterday that uses its search algorithms -- but no human editors -- to create a news page that looks not much different from those of many news Web sites. "We are trying to leverage the experience of all the editors out there," said Larry Page. WashPost editor: "It's a useful service, but it's not going to drive me to the unemployment office tomorrow." All the News Google Algorithms Say Is Fit to Print |
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New Scientist - Transparent token is cryptographic key |
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12:08 pm EDT, Sep 23, 2002 |
"A transparent token the size of a postage stamp and costing just a penny to make can be used to generate an immensely powerful cryptographic key." Tom, your a security guru...what are your thoughts on this? New Scientist - Transparent token is cryptographic key |
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Cheap trick secures secrets |
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8:48 pm EDT, Sep 20, 2002 |
"The glass spheres scatter laser light so that it falls in a speckle pattern on a surface on the far side that is divided into a grid of pixels. The intensity of light in each pixel is the fingerprint that is compared against a pre-recorded version to verify the token. " Cheap trick secures secrets |
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12:58 am EDT, Sep 17, 2002 |
Scientists have sent light signals at faster-than-light speeds over the distances of a few metres for the last two decades - but only with the aid of complicated, expensive equipment. Now physicists at Middle Tennessee State University have broken that speed limit over distances of nearly 120 metres, using off-the-shelf equipment costing just $500. Jeremy Munday and Bill Robertson made a 120-metre-long cable by alternating six- to eight-metre-long lengths of two different kinds of coaxial cable, each with a different electrical resistance. They hooked this hybrid cable up to two signal generators, one of which broadcast a fast wave, the other a slow one. The waves interfere with each other to produce electric pulses, which can be watched using an oscilloscope. Wow....go MTSU;) New Scientist |
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Personal Product: EarthViewer3D |
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9:18 pm EDT, Sep 8, 2002 |
Keyhole's EarthViewer3D harnesses the power of NVIDIA GPUs. Fusing high-resolution satellite and aerial imagery, elevation data, GPS coordinates, and overlay information about cities and businesses, EarthViewer3D delivers a streaming, 3D map of the entire globe to PCs powered with NVIDIA GPUs. Very cool. I wish they offered bulk pre-caching of the imagery, rather than streaming it on demand. Personal Product: EarthViewer3D |
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1:58 pm EDT, Sep 4, 2002 |
"it has come to my attention that some people think I was responsible for the interesting network outage on Saturday night at Defcon 10 where all sites on the internet resolved to only one site and that no-one was able to maintain an association with any access point other than the offending one... While I categorically deny these allegations, the code i used to do it will be up here in a day or so..." The PPT on this page was one of the better talks from DefCon. How to DOS a wireless LAN, how to MITM an ISAKMP key exchange occuring over a wireless LAN... 802.11ninja.net |
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News: Spam hits 36 percent of e-mail traffic |
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8:21 pm EDT, Aug 31, 2002 |
"In July, according to Brightmail's latest interception figures, unsolicited bulk e-mail made up a whopping 36 percent of all e-mail traveling over the Internet, up from 8 percent about a year ago." ...could make up the majority of message traffic on the Internet by the end of 2002, according to data from three e-mail service providers. "
News: Spam hits 36 percent of e-mail traffic |
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8:21 pm EDT, Aug 31, 2002 |
The Bush administration has plans to create a centralized facility for collecting and examining security-related e-mail and data traffic and will push private network operators to expand their data-gathering initiatives, according to an unreleased draft of the plan. ... Howard Schmidt, vice chairman of the CIPB, said the center would consolidate threat data from the country's collection end points, such as the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center, the Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office, the Department of Energy and commercial networks. Private companies would also be encouraged to increase the amount of data collected and share it with the government. "Major companies generally report this information internally," Schmidt told eWeek. "We're looking for that to come back to a central location." ... Riiight... [ Originally from Decius. Once more unto the breach. AmeriKKKa the beautiful! --Rek ] Bush to Call for Fed NOC |
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9:51 pm EDT, Aug 30, 2002 |
Well, here is a poorly designed website that actually appears to sell one of the phoney products they used to advertise in the back of "Boy's Life" magazine. Unfortunately its a little out of the reach of the average 12 year old's allowance. Now that they've accomplished this, I'm waiting on "Hover-Boards." With a pair of X-ray specs and a hover-board my life will be complete. X-RAY SPECS! |
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