A few years ago, a friend and I were talking about using the redundant bits in web images to store text messages. You could drop the image into binary/hex editor and see the message or something like that. We discussed it as a means to increase the accessibility of web images. Screen readers could see [...]
If you need a reason to install an ad and cookie blocker, to spoof your referer information and to shut off all client side scripting except for trusted domains, web bugs are that reason.
The US spends over a billion dollars each year to assure that decommissioned Russian nuclear weapons don’t fall into the wrong hands. Recently, Russian scientists discovered several flaws in the database software that the US lends to Russia to track it’s weapons and nuclear materials. The US has been using this accounting software to track [...]
I just read a story about a cheap and simple device that can fry the electronics of most of the military’s high-tech weapons systems. At some point, when the US engages in another bout of cruise missile diplomacy, the people who are the targets of this diplomacy will just use this device to fry the [...]
Advertising is everywhere these days. It’s becoming like that Pohl and Kornbluth story, where advertising was even on the wallpaper and toilet paper. I think it’s gone far enough. I think people should be allowed to pay more for no advertising at all. Think about it. You pay for cable right? Wouldn’t you be willing [...]