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Monthly Archive March, 2007

Hacking a fingerprint scanner

Old but good and quite representative show from MythBusters about fingerprint systems reliability.

Boo at NSA

It is a general misconception that NSA involvement made Windows Vista more secure. NSA may certainly know stuff about cryptography but they are only humans. Thus, when it came to security, they suck like everybody else. Here is a cross-site script (XSS) vulnerability at the NSA web site for a sample:
http://www.nsa.gov/notices/notic00004.cfm?Address=”%20onmouseover=”alert(’boo’)
(go to ACCEPT link at […]

A great UI

A great UI is one that allows user to remove and hide whatever UI designers believe to be a great UI.