Edward Snowden: The Untold Story | Threat Level | WIRED
The message arrives on my “clean machine,” a MacBook Air loaded only with a sophisticated encryption package. “Change in plans,” my contact says. “Be in the lobby of the Hotel ______ by 1 pm. Bring a book and wait for ES to find you.”
Hasnain says:
"One day an intelligence officer told him that TAO—a division of NSA hackers—had attempted in 2012 to remotely install an exploit in one of the core routers at a major Internet service provider in Syria, which was in the midst of a prolonged civil war. This would have given the NSA access to email and other Internet traffic from much of the country. But something went wrong, and the router was bricked instead—rendered totally inoperable. The failure of this router caused Syria to suddenly lose all connection to the Internet—although the public didn't know that the US government was responsible. (This is the first time the claim has been revealed.)"
Posted on 2014-08-13T17:34:14+0000
Windows 1.0 and the Applications of Tomorrow
Windows 1.0 and the Applications of Tomorrow
Hasnain says:
This is from 2005, but the nostalgia...
"I know that many of you swear by assembly language for PC programming and I’m very sympathetic. The PC wouldn’t be where it is today without assembly language. And many of you are hesitant about using high-level languages like C because of the performance issues."
Posted on 2014-08-13T05:26:37+0000
Computational Knowledge and the Future of Pure Mathematics—Stephen Wolfram Blog
Proposing technology for pure mathematics: curating concepts, constructs, theorems, & literature; precise symbolic language; automated computations...
"Reverse Engineering for Beginners" free book
Topics touched: Oracle RDBMS, Itanium, copy-protection dongles, LD_PRELOAD, stack overflow, ELF, win32 PE file format, x86-64, critical sections, syscalls, TLS, position-independent code (PIC), profile-guided optimization, C++ STL, OpenMP, win32 SEH.
Push for Pizza app a Silicon Valley triumph - CNET
An app that tackles one of the world's most pressing problems has arrived. Now, with a simple few taps, you too can realize what it's like to live in the year 2014.
Hasnain says:
This app is going to revolutionize all our lives.
#firstworldproblems couldn't get any worse.
Posted on 2014-08-10T02:02:06+0000
Get Your Hands Off My Laptop
This work will be presented in CHES 2014 and published in its proceedings. An extended version (PDF, 5.3MB) is available.
Coccinelle: A Program Matching and Transformation Tool for Systems Code
The development of Coccinelle is supported in part by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (France) under the contract ANR-09-BLAN-0158-01.
Hasnain says:
Why had I not known of this before? This is amazing
Posted on 2014-08-08T01:22:35+0000
CoolGithubProjects
Sharing cool github projects just got easier!
Particle Clicker
An addictive incremental game that was made during the CERN Webfest 2014. It takes the player on a historic journey through modern particle physics.
Hasnain says:
CERN came out with a clicker game. What is the world coming to?
Posted on 2014-08-07T18:16:32+0000
Extracting audio from visual information
Algorithm recovers speech from the vibrations of a potato-chip bag filmed through soundproof glass.
Hasnain says:
So much for us making fun of CSI. This is mind blowing.
Posted on 2014-08-04T18:21:37+0000