linklog
07 March 2010
Games and play
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Making random numbers that "feel" more random to the limited and biased human brain. Reminds me of World of Warcraft's drop progressive frequency hack for quest item drop rates.
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It's been doing the rounds, but if you haven't seen this presentation by Jesse Schell yet you're in for a thought-provoking treat. I'd love to try to apply this type of thinking social news and journalism. Also see these responses to the more terrifying aspects of Schell's talk.
Hackery
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A hack using strace to get progress information from cp.
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Finding a non-trivial (allegedly illegal) executable prime.
Security
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Uses the well-known link colour detection data leak to let you find out if your friends have been visiting "naughty" websites. Just the kind of security pranksterism I like.
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A more serious paper describing how to use the same vulnerability to de-anonymize social network users.
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Adi Shamir's comments at about 45:30 on cloud computing resonates with me. I'm getting more and more worried about the cloud's privacy and security implications. Also features some amusing sparring between the crypto giants and the NSA dude on the panel.
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"Imagine that it's fifteen years from now. Somebody announces that he's built a large quantum computer. RSA is dead. DSA is dead. Elliptic curves, hyperelliptic curves, class groups, whatever, dead, dead, dead." A collection of resources put together by the inimitable Dan Bernstein and one Tanja Lange.
Visualisation
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A fascinating idea: using the clustering properties of the Hilbert curve to get nearly optimal graph layout.
Social web
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Data mining open codebases for prospective employees. A great idea.
More posts:
- cryp.sr - the next step 17 Jun 2010
- Apple, China and the war of ideas 07 May 2010
- cryp.sr - a minimal host-proof cryptographic textpad 29 Mar 2010
- Host-proof applications: doing it wrong 26 Feb 2010
- Introducing mitmproxy: an interactive man-in-the-middle proxy 16 Feb 2010
- Timsort - a study in grayscale 28 Jan 2010
- Hilbert Curve + Sorting Algorithms + Procrastination = ? 26 Jan 2010
- An email to the authors of JSCrypto 14 Jan 2010