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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 29 2013 @ 03:13 AM EDT |
In March, readers followed along as Nate
Anderson, Ars deputy
editor and a self-admitted newbie to
password cracking, downloaded a list of
more than 16,000
cryptographically hashed passcodes. Within a few hours, he
deciphered almost half of them. The moral of the story: if a
reporter with
zero training in the ancient art of password
cracking can achieve such results,
imagine what more
seasoned attackers can do.
Imagine no more. We asked
three cracking experts to attack
the same list Anderson targeted and recount
the results in
all their color and technical detail Iron Chef style. The
results, to say the least, were eye opening because they
show how quickly even
long passwords with letters, numbers,
and symbols can be
discovered.
Dan
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 29 2013 @ 03:41 AM EDT |
The Canadian War on Science: A
long, unexaggerated,
devastating chronological
indictment
This is a brief
chronology of the current Conservative
Canadian government’s long campaign to
undermine evidence-
based scientific, environmental and technical
decision-
making.
It is a government that is beholden to big business,
particularly big oil, and that makes every attempt to shape
public policy to
that end. It is a government that
fundamentally doesn’t believe in science. It
is a government
that is more interested in keeping its corporate masters
happy
than in protecting the environment.
As is occasionally my habit, I have
pulled together a
chronology of sorts. It is a chronology of all the various
cuts, insults, muzzlings and cancellations that I’ve been
able to dig up. Each
of them represents a single shot in the
Canadian Conservative war on
science.
It should be noted that not every item in this chronology,
if
taken in isolation, is necessarily the end of the world.
It’s the accumulated
evidence that is so damning.
John Dupuis, The Georgia
Straight
John Dupuisis the head of the Steacie Science &
Engineering
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Authored by: SilverWave on Wednesday, May 29 2013 @ 06:52 AM EDT |
Size matters: how I went from an iPhone
to a really
big Android phone
I thought I wanted something
'iPhone-sized,' but I was wrong
--- RMS: The 4 Freedoms
0 run the program for any purpose
1 study the source code and change it
2 make copies and distribute them
3 publish modified versions
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Authored by: Ed L. on Wednesday, May 29 2013 @ 03:12 PM EDT |
...is a Non
Sequitur.
--- Real Programmers mangle their own memory. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 29 2013 @ 04:19 PM EDT |
"Eesha Khare, an 18-year-old senior at Lynbrook High
School in San Jose,
Calif., won both the first prize at the
Intel Science Fair and the Project of
the Year award for the
senior division of the California State Science Fair
with
her research on supercapacitors."
"However, her work has
also attracted the attention of
the company that holds a patent involving
similar
technology, and its CEO says he may be forced to bring legal
action
against her if she tries to commercialize it." link[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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