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Hack In The Box 2007

I’m in Kuala-Lumpur now. Today was first day of HITBSecConf2007. It begun with a keynote address by Lance Spitzner. Lance spoke about Fast-Flux (if unfamiliar with the term: it is a quite robust and effective bad guy’s solution to do bad things using fast IP changing hosts). I believe Lance is doing a great job […]

Hacking a fingerprint scanner

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

A great UI

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

Using hard mathematical problems to prevent spam

This is not something new exactly. I first came up with this idea few years ago and it was published and discussed many times since then. The idea is quite simply so a lot of people came up with it themselves as well. I claim neither rights nor priority for this idea.
There are three […]

How to prevent biometrics system from being lousy

Let’s talk about fingerprint systems. They suck. A fingerprint is an easily compromisable and, once compromised, is a non-replaceable object. And there is a limited stock. So, at the end, all these “give-me-a-correct-finger-and-I-will-let-you-in” systems are neither secure enough nor reliable. They need to be improved and here is the idea: a “Masonic touch”. Instead of […]