Steal WhatsApp database (PoC) | Bas Bosschert
Steal WhatsApp database (PoC)“Is it possible to upload and read the WhatsApp chats from another Android application?”With this question my brother and I started an interesting conversation which ended in underneath proof of concept. The tldr answer is: “Yes, that is possible”.The WhatsApp database i...
Hasnain says:
Let's hope some of that $19B goes towards securing user data, at least.
(the same AES key for every user? tsk tsk tsk...)
Posted on 2014-03-11T17:28:42+0000
BBC Radio 4 Extra - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...
Adaptation of Douglas Adams's cult science fiction comedy series
Hasnain says:
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Game - 30th Anniversary Edition"
This is awesome.
Posted on 2014-03-10T17:56:00+0000
STEM Shortage Claims and Facebook’s $19 Billion Acquisition of WhatsApp
Mathematics is wonderful!
Hasnain says:
"In fact, technology companies appear to be extremely picky in even choosing to interview applicants, let alone actually hiring them. This pickiness alone probably accounts for the perceived “shortage” of “qualified” applicants. It also explains why a minority of software engineers who fit or appear to fit the extremely narrow, rapidly changing, and often unstated criteria of the tech companies report fierce competition and multiple job offers, while many others like Chand John or Darin Wedel (and perhaps Brian Acton in 2009) report a long frustrating job hunt."
The writer makes a very good point.
Posted on 2014-03-10T17:40:36+0000
How I resurrected my MacBook Pro by putting it in the oven
09 Mar 2014How I resurrected my MacBook Pro by putting it in the ovenOne late night I opened up my trusty MacBook Pro only to find it turned off. “That’s odd, I never turn it off. Must have ran out of battery or something”. Without a further thought, I pressed the power button and the computer promp...
The Codeless Code: Case 135 Ass-Backwards Compatibility
An illustrated collection of (sometimes violent) fables, concerning the Art and Philosophy of software development
Hasnain says:
"Wangohan’s head fell to his desk. “Clearly a cardboard box must be a fit meal for the Emperor’s daughter, for here it is on the Imperial menu.”"
Posted on 2014-03-10T17:35:32+0000
Using Google to DDoS any website | A Programmer's Blog
Google uses its FeedFetcher crawler to cache anything that is put inside =image(“link”) in the spreadsheet. For instance: If we put =image(“http://example.com/image.jpg”) in one of the cells of Google spreadsheet, Google will send the FeedFetcher crawler to grab the image and cache it to display.
Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey: Standing Up in the Milky Way | National Geographic Channel
The Ship of the Imagination, unfettered by ordinary limits on speed and size, drawn by the music of cosmic harmonies, can take us anywhere in space and time. It has been idling for more than three decades, and yet it has never been overtaken. Its global legacy remains vibrant. Now, it's time on
Click to view the original at channel.nationalgeographic.com
Hasnain says:
The first episode of the Cosmos remake airs tonight!
Posted on 2014-03-09T23:06:05+0000
http://www.ime.usp.br/~jstern/miscellanea/General/Chiang98.pdf
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Hasnain says:
"Ted Chiang has only published three SF stories prior to this one and his first, “Tower of Babylon”(1990), won the Nebula Award; another (“Understand”) won the Asimov's Readers Award in 1991, and he won the John W.Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1992. He is a careful and accomplished writer, and his work is distinguished by originality combined with the high quality of his re-imaging of old SF ideas. This is his fourth published story, his first in more than five years (he seems to have a satisfying life in the Seattle area that leaves him little time for SF writing). It is the longest story in this book and may well be the best. The theme of communicating with aliens was prominent in the SF fiction of 1998, but nowhere better done than here."
Posted on 2014-03-09T22:50:53+0000
How To Think
"It’s uncomfortable to focus so intensely on what you’re bad at."
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"With the exception of Grade nine, the winning team , “came from a private school, an exam school, a parochial school, or a public school populated by the children of Apple engineers,” Tough writes.
Except, that is, for middle school grades, the space where Elizabeth Spiegel teaches.
These students didn’t win just one grade, they won every grade they entered. “The roster of schools they beat,” Tough writes, “reads like a wealthy parent’s wish list of the most desirable private schools in the country.
The chess program at IS 318 is one of the best in the country. But why?"
Posted on 2014-03-09T22:18:22+0000
James B. Stewart: How a Top Law Firm Destroyed Itself
Dewey & LeBoeuf, the product of the largest law firm merger in New York history, was often referred to in the press as a “global super firm.” Five years later, the partnership was riven by intrigue, animosities, and defections. It was uncertain that the firm would survive. Steven Davis, its former c...