Sunday December 5, 2010
"L0pht Heavy Industries (pronounced "loft") was a hacker collective active between 1992 and 2000 and located in the Boston, Massachusetts area."
Sunday November 28, 2010
A very clever hack, even if the scenario is pretty unlikely. Especially the tricks to reduce the number of hash calculations required.
Wednesday October 27, 2010
Thoughts on it's sudden popularity throwing new light on an old problem. We're also starting to see some sites push out fixes.
Sunday October 10, 2010
"Stuxnet now rivals Wikileaks as the real life plot most likely to have leaked from science fiction." Honestly, some of this is straight out of a Gibson novel.
Sunday December 6, 2009
A couple of weeks I made a trip to Music Hackday Boston. The 4th in a series of music hackdays,...
Tuesday April 28, 2009
How 4chan hacked reCAPTCHA without actually breaking it. Streamlining the manual voting process, load times, gaming captchas.
Friday April 3, 2009
"The first BakerTweet device has been installed at the Albion Cafe on Boundary Street in Shoreditch, London. In simple terms it's a bakery-proof box that sends messages wirelessly to Twitter. The clever bit is that the baker can update their messages and things they're selling using a simple web interface"
Thursday April 2, 2009
"Goodhack is a hackday. The challenge is to find an actual problem people have and then find a solution to it thus making the world a little better."
Saturday January 6, 2007
Over the holidays I came discovered Code Golf and got quite addicted to one of the challenges, for...