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Entries from August 2008

Music Search and Social Computing

January 31st, 2007 · Comments Off

   
 I had better luck. It recognized me singing “Danny Boy.” But failed on the
other two James Taylor songs. I will try this some more though. I have been
searching for a few songs that I can’t remember the artist’s name and that makes
it hard to find on iTunes.

New
startup Midomi, a voice-based music search
engine with a [...]

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VideoWrapplet attempt

January 15th, 2007 · Comments Off

    This is an attempt to display the videoWrapplet from mediaForge.

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Well whaddya know, it worked!

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UK RFID Passports Cracked Already

January 9th, 2007 · Comments Off

   
 Ok, I know this is old, but US is moving to RFID passports Jan 1, I don’t
even own a hammer.
cb

from the feeling-safer? dept
There’s been an odd rush by governments to move to RFID
passports, even though there are serious
concerns about how secure they really are. Over in the UK, where many RFID
passports are already in [...]

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How To: disable Your Passport’s RFID Chip

January 9th, 2007 · Comments Off

It’s a privacy issue. I would never recommend anyone do this. My passport
just expired. What to do…oops, I dropped it. 
cb

All passports issued by the US State Department after
January 1 will have always-on radio frequency identification chips, making it
easy for officials ñ and hackers ñ to grab your personal stats. Getting paranoid
about strangers slurping up your identity? [...]

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How to Sniff Plain-text Passwords in 13 steps

January 9th, 2007 · Comments Off

 Yikes. I haven’t played with this yet. But I’m telling you, the name a
password paradigm we know is just plain dead.

I would really appreciate feedback about this article. Please register to the
forum and comment on it! Thanks and use with caution.The following is an
instructional tutorial. I hope to show how easy it is to sniff [...]

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KRCL–Great Radio Lives

January 9th, 2007 · Comments Off

I agree with Doc, KRCL is a great radio station. Every Sat and Sun from 10
2, Sagebrush Serenade. Live Blues and so on. Thanks for reminding me Doc.

cb 

Real Radio Lives

I listened to a lot of KRCL on the way
down here yesterday. Dunno why, but I’d never heard them, or heard of
them, before. But man, what a great mess [...]

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