The Torn-Up Credit Card Application
Rob Cockerham ripped up a pre-approved credit card offer into little pieces, taped it back together and filled in an alternate address and phone number. Guess what? The application was approved anyways!
Dutch “Woonerf” street space design
Allow for the safe integration of multiple uses in road design, where walking, cycling, childrens’ play and other uses share space with slow-moving traffic. (Design pattern known as Home Zones in the UK)
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Digital Person
Book on the pervasive collection of personal habits and information, thus creating a “digital person” owned by corporations - not the person being profiled. Recommended by Bruce Schneier.
History of safes and safe breaking
Told by engineer and cartoonist Tim Hunkin.
Electronic Privacy Information Center
This org uncovers many privacy infrigements using FOIA requests
Tales of espionage and counter espionage from a corporate anti-espionage firm
Moral of the story - don’t get naked in a tanning booth, ever.
Shifflett’s excellent PHP security guide
I attended his presentation at OSCON 2004 in Portland and was impressed by his knowledge. Need to incorporate his form processing, session and program design security recommendations.
SQL injection attacks by example
How to probe your web application for injection vulnerabilities, and how to fix them.
Straight forward guide to setting up SSH tunnels for mail reading at untrusted wifi locations.
from Stop Design.
A dude implanted an RFID chip in himself so he could have keyless entry into his car.
More things like this will happen in the future…
Neat firefox plugin that allows trusted social net contacts to annotate web sites, files, and processes as “trusted or dangerous”
A thesis project by Stan James attending University of Osnabruck in Germany.
Paper on “darknet” distribution systems, and their relationship with DRM technologies
Bottom line, increased DRM can drive people to use darknet networks, and the authors don’t think darknet and p2p networks will disappear anytime soon.
On bypassing locks with simple tools
Interesting to see how people develop these attacks.
On creating a latex fingerprint for use in our increasingly biometric happy world
Real questions unanswered - does it work, and how convincing does it look?
Hello
John is currently thinking and designing in San Francisco.
Projects
Message Muni
A simple and forgiving text messaging service for San Francisco Muni arrival times.
DSButtons.com
DS Buttons are an invitation to play.
Collaborators
Adam DuVander
of WifiPDX and Simplicity Rules fame.
Josh Heumann
Polaroid alchemist extraordinaire.
Sean Madden
The Pixelnomad.
Name Redacted
Qué mysterioso.
Tom Watson
Stays up late over at 110am.