Alright, alright. I’ve dawdled enough. Everybody say it at once now: “All you have to do is kidnap the password holder and force them at gunpoint to enter the password.” Doesn’t that feel good? Now let’s move on. Bojinov et all are aware of their method’s weaknesses, such as susceptibility to eavesdropping (they use the term “shoulder surfing”) [...]
Yesterday I featured the preliminary work of a Stanford/Northwestern University team claims to have succeeded in embedding 30-character passwords into the subconscious memory of it’s subjects. The group will present their findings at the 21st USENIX Security Symposium in August. The interesting part for me was how they accomplished this. As mentioned yesterday, implicit memory [...]
Nerds who were made fun of in high school did not stop at becoming your boss or ruling the world, they are now making you LOOK LIKE THEM TOO!! MUAHahahahahaha. Revenge is a dish best served 01100011011011110110110001100100 I’m always so excited about spotting ‘the future is now’ moments that when an opportunity to wear a [...]
It’s been a while since I did a video game comic, and while I finished it a while ago, I just couldn’t figure out how to make a comic of it. But then science came along and threw all all sorts of related journal articles and interesting developments my way. Deus Ex: Human Revolution is a [...]
Today (October 5th, 2011) the world received notice that Steve Jobs, co-founder, former CEO, and mastermind of Apple Computers had died. For a while now, we had watched him slowly succumb to one of the most deadly cancers out there—his body weight becoming a visual analog of his waning health. His passing was not a [...]