Entries Tagged as 'Misc'

Sunday, February 15th, 2009

Schmap!!

Normally, I’ll report on interesting things as I stumble upon them. This one, however, found me!
Schmap!! is an online/mobile international tour guide. They provide maps, locations of sights and information about the sights for lots of different cities all over the world.

I got an email from them as they wanted to use a picture from […]

Friday, October 17th, 2008

Mother3 Fan Translation

HELL YEAH. I know this site isn’t about video games but I don’t care, I’m so excited about this amazing hack I’m writing about it here anyway.

The Mother3 Fan Translation is now available.
Mother3 is the sequel to the Super Nintendo game EarthBound, which is my favorite game of all time. Mother3 came out for the […]

Friday, September 19th, 2008

Anonarchy

There has been a lot of talk about cryptoanarchy, but zero talk about the other side of the equation, anonymity in government. I dub this Anonarchy, and have made a logo accordingly (actually, I made the logo first and the system of government to fit it.)
If you’re not a computer-science person, this wikipedia article might […]

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

Hacking Mac Kiosks

You’ve probably seen a kiosk at some point in your life. They’re the standalone computers you see in malls and lobbies all over the place. They’re typically just a browser and some software to stop you from doing anything else on the computer. This makes me sad. All that computing power just being used for […]

Monday, September 1st, 2008

Frankenboob: Don’t Throw Out Old Hard Drives!

Aug 31st is move-out day in Boston, and that means dumpster diving! This years haul: 3 computers (2 P4 Dells and an HP Laptop!), a 20″ monitor, 2 power conditioners, a lot of furniture and the Cryptonomicon!
So, after booting up the computers and a bit of poking around, we found this in Mr. Kyle M’s […]

Friday, August 15th, 2008

Linkovbot: A Natural Language Processing IRC Bot

This is the first of three posts wrapping up my experiences with Google Summer of Code 2008 and the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence.
Although it had nothing to do with my main project proposal, Linkovbot does use the same NLP software and I did write it to give myself a break from reading too much […]

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

New GPG Key; Encrypted GMail with FireGPG

I’m sort of embarrassed that I’ve been using GMail for a while now. I rally for data privacy and yet I let a large company house all of my personal communications? That’s a bit hypocritical.

My solution, at least until I can find something more suitable, is to use the FireGPG extension for Firefox. Now, you […]

Saturday, August 9th, 2008

Hacking the MBTA!

Some MIT students have been banned from giving a talk at this years’ DEFCON about their hack on the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority’s CharlieCard system.
I’ve got a copy of their forbidden slides, which I’m mirroring here. It’s a really good presentation, but unfortunately the links to their code in it aren’t working right now.

Anyway, the […]

Saturday, August 2nd, 2008

Switzerland, the EFF’s New Net Neutrality Monitor

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a top digital rights organization out of San Francisco and DC, has just released a new tool which lets users automatically detect network neutrality violations and ensure that their internet experience is left untampered with.
Switzerland, as it is called, is an open source software tool for testing the integrity of data […]

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

Going to HOPE

I’m going to the HOPE conference in NYC tomorrow through Sunday. If anybody is going and wants to meet up, drop me a comment or an email and we’ll sort something out!

I’m tentatively scheduled to give a demo of the Anomos protocol in the General Demo Area on the mezzanine at 1300 on Sunday, you […]