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Reminds me of World of Warcraft's drop <a href="http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/57886">progressive frequency hack</a> for quest item drop rates.</p> </div> </li> <li> <div class="links_title"><a href="http://g4tv.com/videos/44277/DICE-2010-Design-Outside-the-Box-Presentation/"><p>Jesse Schell's Design Outside the Box presentation at DICE 2010</p> </a></div> <div class="links_body"> <p>It's been doing the rounds, but if you haven't seen this presentation by <a href="http://artofgamedesign.com/bio/">Jesse Schell</a> 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 <a href="http://www.sirlin.net/blog/2010/2/22/external-rewards-and-jesse-schells-amazing-lecture.html">these</a> <a href="http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/4294/persuasive_games_shell_games.php?print=1">responses</a> to the more terrifying aspects of Schell's talk.</p> </div> </li> </ul> <h2>Hackery</h2> <ul class="links_block"> <li> <div class="links_title"><a href="http://chris-lamb.co.uk/2008/01/24/can-you-get-cp-to-give-a-progress-bar-like-wget/"><p>Can you get cp to give a progress bar like wget?</p> </a></div> <div class="links_body"> <p>A hack using strace to get progress information from cp.</p> </div> </li> <li> <div class="links_title"><a href="http://asdf.org/~fatphil/maths/illegal2.html"><p>The World's First Non-Trivial Executable Titanic Prime</p> </a></div> <div class="links_body"> <p>Finding a non-trivial (allegedly illegal) executable prime.</p> </div> </li> </ul> <h2>Security</h2> <ul class="links_block"> <li> <div class="links_title"><a href="http://www.haveyourfriendsbeenthere.com/"><p>Have your friends been there?</p> </a></div> <div class="links_body"> <p>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.</p> </div> </li> <li> <div class="links_title"><a href="http://docs.google.com/gview?url=http://www.iseclab.org/papers/sonda-TR.pdf"><p>A Practical Attack to De-Anonymyze Social Network Users</p> </a></div> <div class="links_body"> <p>A more serious paper describing how to use the same vulnerability to de-anonymize social network users.</p> </div> </li> <li> <div class="links_title"><a href="http://media.omediaweb.com/rsa2010/video-only.htm?id=1-5"><p>RSA Conference 2010 video, featuring Diffie, Hellman, Rivest and Shamir.</p> </a></div> <div class="links_body"> <p>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.</p> </div> </li> <li> <div class="links_title"><a href="http://pqcrypto.org"><p>Post-quantum cryptography</p> </a></div> <div class="links_body"> <p>"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.</p> </div> </li> </ul> <h2>Visualisation</h2> <ul class="links_block"> <li> <div class="links_title"><a href="http://vis.cs.ucdavis.edu/~muelder/papers/2008-infovis-sfclayout-final.pdf"><p>Rapid graph layout using space filling curves</p> </a></div> <div class="links_body"> <p>A fascinating idea: using the clustering properties of the Hilbert curve to get nearly optimal graph layout.</p> </div> </li> </ul> <h2>Social web</h2> <ul class="links_block"> <li> <div class="links_title"><a href="http://www.hackdiary.com/2010/02/10/algorithmic-recruitment-with-github/"><p>Algorithmic recruitment with GitHub</p> </a></div> <div class="links_body"> <p>Data mining open codebases for prospective employees. A great idea. <!--(socialweb)--></p> </div> </li> </ul> </div></div>http://corte.si/posts/linklog/10/07-03.htmlSun, 07 Mar 2010 19:26:00 GMThttp://corte.si/posts/software/mitmproxy0_2.htmlmitmproxy 0.2http://corte.si/posts/software/mitmproxy0_2.htmlMon, 01 Mar 2010 17:31:00 GMThttp://corte.si/posts/socialmedia/reddit-story-dos.htmlHow to stop a story from appearing on Reddithttp://corte.si/posts/socialmedia/reddit-story-dos.htmlSun, 28 Feb 2010 17:29:00 GMT