My friend Andrew recently posted a teaser for a new project he’s working on, but with part of the headline pixelated to obscure what the project actually is. My curiosity got the best of me and I decided to do what any self-respecting geek would do: write a program to figure out what the censored [...]
Users of the popular VoIP network, Skype, have been experiencing widespread outages for more than a day now. And of course thanks to Murphy’s Law I happened to pick today to try to get my family set up on Skype.
So far I’ve heard three theories as to what is going on.
Skype says the problem is [...]
I had a great weekend in Las Vegas at DEF CON 15. Met lots of cool people, saw lots of interesting presentations, ate lots of good food, and spent way too much money doing it all.
Perhaps my favorite moment of the conference was when DEF CON organizer Jeff Moss lured Michelle Madigan, the undercover NBC [...]
There have been some questions as to the security implications of the “web installer” available for installing the XBMC iPhone Remote and other XBMC applications. This page explains how it works and the problems with XBMC’s web server [HTTP-API](http://www.xboxmediacenter.com/wiki/index.php?title=web serverHTTP-API) which make this installer possible, as well as the solution to securing your XBMC web [...]