A couple of students at the School of Computing Science, in Newcastle, England, have gotten a success rate of 92% on attacking the CAPTCHA validations for such sites as Hotmail and Windows Live.
In a recently published paper they describe how it was done, and explain how text based CAPTCHA will not be hard to break […]
Christopher Tarnovsky has led a wild existence in the last few years. At thirty-seven, he seems to be the pre-eminent cracker of existing smart card technology.
In an amazing tale told to Wired, Mr. Tarnovsky outlines exactly how being given a satellite dish and a couple of non-working smart cards, while in Europe working […]
After reading his latest installment over at ComputerWorld, I can’t help but feel that this is one of those guys who wakes up each morning with a thought, put there by God, in his sleep. Sort of a modern day Moses, with the burning bush appearing in his dreams, so as to be less conspicuous, […]
That, in essence, is what Mary Jo Foley asked over at ZDNet this morning. She makes several salient points, and I must concur. The best thing would be for Microsoft to pull back from search, entertainment devices, and any other nonsense (what’s next? Microsoft thermally controlled underwear for Eskimos? No, I guess that would be […]
from Wired
A San Diego start-up says it is using algae to make oil that can be refined into gasoline and other fuels that are both renewable and carbon-neutral, and it plans to produce 10,000 barrels a day within five years.
While that is just a drop in the bucket of what this gas guzzling country needs, […]
Over at Tom’s Hardware, a new set of tests was done to compare the performance of a Powercolor 3850 AGP video card versus the PCIe equivalent.
Well, guess what - virtually no difference in performance. This simply proves that for most people - that is, all who are not gamers - AGP is perfectly fine as […]
According to the very latest findings, reported today by MSNBC, England’s Stonehenge, a true oddity, served as a burial ground from its earliest beginnings,possibly for ancient kings or chieftains, researchers reported.
Carbon-14 dating of cremated remains and bone fragments shows that burials took place as early as 3000 B.C., when the first ditches around […]
This version, which is the standard edition, revision 12.1, will be all you need in an archiver. It handles all the formats of Zip that Phil Katz pioneered, and also handles RAR files very well.
This is not a trial version, but it is for individual use only. All that need be done is head […]
For the last few revisions, Ubuntu Linux has been promising the ability to work with a multitude of Wi-Fi adapters, without needing the patience of Job or the help of Linus himself. First, Gutsy Gibbon was supposed to ‘really’ do it… then Hardy Heron was going to make the grade. Still we have no easy […]
Since so many things with Windows 7 will be continuing from Vista, a company specializing in helpful hardware for computers has announced a new gadget for making one of the most tedious chores withe Windows much easier.
The unit is small, easy to use and relatively compact, so it wont take up much of the space, […]
