In the face of widespread Internet surveillance, we need a secure and practical means of talking to each other from our phones and computers. Many companies offer ”secure messaging” products”but are these systems actually secure? We decided to find out, in the first phase of a new EFF Campaign for Secure & Usable Crypto. » eff.org
El sistema truca las ondas electromagnéticas del monitor. De esta forma se puede transmitir información desde la pantalla a un teléfono que esté a menos de siete metros, con un ancho de banda de hasta 60 bytes por segundo, suficientes para obtener una contraseña en ocho segundos, según aseguran los investigadores. » Sergio Ferrer | elconfidencial.com
Computer Scientist Gary Kildall created just such an operating system in 1974 for a small computer called the ”Intellec-8ó that Intel had designed to showcase their new microprocessors. Called ”CP/M”, it was unlike most other operating systems for small computers because it was written in PL/M, a portable higher-level language that he had designed earlier, rather than in the assembly-language of a particular computer. That meant that CP/M could be ported to run on many different personal computers. And if the applications were written in PL/M, they could be ported as well. ...
The goal for this research was to identify the most common problems and challenges that Android developers face with the devices they build for. The 288 unique Android device models represent a significant volume of Android use: approximately 92 to 97% of global Android volumes, depending on how it gets measured and what regions and markets are included. This research represents remarkable coverage of Android usage globally, and it shows the most obvious problems as well as the status of Android hardware and software from a developer’s point of view. ...
Researchers at the security startup Shape Security say they’ve found a strain of malware on a client’s network that uses that new, furtive form of ”command and control””the communications channel that connects hackers to their malicious software”allowing them to send the programs updates and instructions and retrieve stolen data. Because the commands are hidden in unassuming Gmail drafts that are never even sent, the hidden communications channel is particularly difficult to detect. ...
Pues bien, se trata más bien de un ’side project’, es decir, el típico proyecto en el que te embarcas fuera de tu actividad principal, dedicándole o bien pasta o bien algo de tiempo. En mi caso han sido ambas cosas, pero es totalmente compatible con mis otros menesteres, como pegar los carteles de nvivo.es. » txantxez | txarly.com
In case anyone’s wondering how I approached this as a programming problem, a quick trick is to not get drawn into writing a whole chessboard representation. Use a tool like pgn-extract to convert SAN moves (e.g. ”Nc3”) to long algebraic moves (e.g. ”Nb1c3”) - since we can safely assume all moves in the PGN are legal, this saves a lot of effort implementing the rules of chess (although you still have to handle castling and en passant carefully). » png-extract » SurvivingPieces ...
I’m putting a team of Debian developers together to work full time on a derivative distribution of Debian. The idea is to provide a high-quality regular release based on Debian unstable, ensuring that all patches are given back to Debian, and ensuring that the install disk of our distribution consists entirely of Free software. Martin and I spoke at length about the project and he seemed to like the idea very much. I’m sure he’d be happy to let you know his thoughts directly. If you’re interested I’d like to give you a call to discuss it further with you. I’m based in the UK so we’re roughly in the same timezone, just let me know when and what number to reach you on. ...
Las máquinas de vídeopóquer Game King llegaron a los casinos en 1970 y fueron un éxito inmediato. Con los años, su software se fue actualizando, incluyendo nuevos juegos y opciones. En 2002 lanzó su quinta gran actualización, que presumía de unos gráficos de calidad nunca vista antes en uno de estos aparatos, así como sonido en estéreo mejorado respecto a versiones anteriores. Lo que este programa incluía también, y nadie se dio cuenta, fueron una serie de sutiles errores de código que tardaron siete años en ser descubiertos. ...
Nick Holonyak Jr., the person widely credited with the development of the first visible-light LED, the device that now lights up countless clocks, traffic signals, and other electronic displays, might be one of them. On Tuesday, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics to three inventors of the blue light-emitting diode. Holonyak isn’t exactly complaining that he isn’t among them; his objection is that his 1962 invention has never been singled out for recognition by the academy. ...