The Major Advances In Password Cracking In The Past Five Years

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Ars Technica has a fascinating article that describes the latest techniques hackers are using to crack passwords. From the article: A PC running a single AMD Radeon HD7970 GPU, for instance, can try on average an astounding 8.2 billion password … [Continue Reading]

What Are The Most Popular and Least Popular PINs?

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What the most popular and least popular numbers used for PINs? The answer is here. In this heatmap image above, the x-axis depicts the left two digits from [00] to [99] and the y-axis depicts the right two digits from [00] to [99]. The bottom left … [Continue Reading]

Eben Moglen: We Need To Follow The First Law Of Robotics

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Here's a thought-provoking speech by Eben Moglen argues that the First Law Of Robotics is something we need to be building into computers today. … [Continue Reading]

Drone Launched By Protestors In Warsaw

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Here's a video of an interesting use of drones by some protestors in Warsaw. They used the drone to film a location that was blockaded by police: The blurring of boundaries between citizens and journalists that occurred with the … [Continue Reading]

Lavabit: Encode Your Emails

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To avoid to possibility of having your email hacked into or continuous surveilled, you must choose an email provider that does not have access to your emails. Lavabit is an email provider who's system is designed to so that even the Lavabit … [Continue Reading]