Archive for the ‘Internet’ Category
Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Attached please find the slides from my presentation on vulnerabilities in home networks. This talk briefly discusses the lack of security enabled by default on home routers as well as the browser exploits which will take advantage of these.
Slides
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Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
Just a quick update. I wrote a greasemonkey script to remove ads from joystiq.com. Its very static, but it gets the job done. The script can be found on greasespot.
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Sunday, December 30th, 2007
Roadrunner just began resolving bad DNS queries to a search page. Absolutely stupid as this breaks the whole state machine of the internet. request some ridiculous domain that doesnt exist like "bestbuy.co" and instead of getting a DNS server error the server name will resolve to 24.28.199.152. ...
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Friday, November 16th, 2007
Facebook Beacon is a new effort announced by Facebook to allow users to share their buying preferences. A few lines of javascript allows a website to post to facebook what items you purchased, games you played, movies you saw etc. Hell attach the three lines of code to ...
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Thursday, November 8th, 2007
Oh well I do beg your pardon Steam. How absurd of me to attempt to play a game I purchased. Please accept my apology for bothering you while you were doing other, much more important things. I'll try back later when its more convenient for you.
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Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
Apparently one can trademark colors now. Gizmodo reports (via a long chain of sources) T-Mobile, in their copyright and trademark statements has managed to state that:
T-MOBILE, the T-MOBILE logo, T-ZONES, the T-ZONES design, the HOTSPOT design, T-MOBILE MDA, T-MOBILE SDA, T-MOBILEWEB, the WORLDCLASS logo, the “digits” design, the T-MOBILE ...
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Tuesday, November 6th, 2007
Recently I took a test where I had to write a Java Applet. I realized something while I was writing it. Java Applets are obsolete and deprecated. Anything they can do, faster newer technologies can do better. Lets look at the two main purposes of a ...
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Thursday, September 27th, 2007
Why not tag facebook with microformats. Its already got the data there. So in an attempt to learn javascript namely the DOM I created a greasemonkey script which will tag a profile for a microformat reader. This works great in operator. I can visit a facebook ...
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Wednesday, September 12th, 2007
(DMB lyrics btw)
Those of my more eagle-eyed readers will notice that the format of my page has recently changed. Well nothing major just a few new icons at right. Lets go through them together shall we.
XBOX Live Gamercard - So there it is. Constantly updating with all ...
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Wednesday, September 12th, 2007
So maybe I was wrong. I looked more into hakia today. They actually have a pretty sweet search engine. It seems to utilize wordnet as well as some cool proactive querying. Hakia actually extracts queries from the webpage as its crawled. Thats pretty cool.
Additionally they ...
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