Dan Kaminsky has been trying to figure out how many sites have been infected by the Sony DRM rootkit. He found that over half a million DNS servers have received queries for the “phone home” address that the Sony code uses to squeal on users. It’s a cool research project, and spells troubling times for Sony in the not-too-distant future.
Daily Archives: 11/15/2005
Still more anaglyphs…
A bit racier, but kind of cool. Wish the source material had a bit better dynamic range.
The Real Value of Podcasting
If you really are doing it for the love, why bother assigning a number to it?
Let’s put it another way: if my goal is to maximize the value that I create, I obviously can do that in a couple of different ways, I can either choose to concentrate and create things which are truly of large value to a smaller number of people, or I could settle for quantity over quality and pander to the lowest common denominator. There has to be more to how you choose to live your life than spamming lots of individuals with trivial thoughts.
Insight of the day…
But there are no games that are user-built the way the web is.
An interesting look into the destiny of Homo ludens and his experiments on the Internet.
Gutenberg Gem: The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 by Popular Mechanics
Wow. Very cool to take this step back in time and see what young hackers in 1913 were doing. A lot of lame stuff, but some gems, like a line harmonograph, a “key card” for writing secret codes on post cards, handcutting gears and racks for models, a miniature “Pepper’s Ghost”, and a homemade water wheel. And that’s just in the first hundred pages, there are almost six hundred! Be sure to check out the PDF file.
Another anaglyph…
This is tuned to be a little less eye straining, I think.