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Top 10 Gaming Hacks and DIY Projects. Dead Island looks like it's shaping up to be the best zombie game ever made – Video Games Reviews, Cheats. Rant. Dissident cop-out on privacy As Cory Doctorow points out in a Guardian interview, technological and cultural factors are placing personal privacy at ever greater risk.

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Doctorow says there should be greater social value put on privacy (eg by allowing children more privacy, rather than constantly surveilling them). But, as one of the comments under Proctorow's interview points out, it's not as if dissident campaigning groups are setting a good example. Quite the opposite. A rather depressing example is given of Corporate Watch (together with a media activist website) showing no regard for the privacy of a private individual... when it suits their purposes (and I suspect they're not alone among activist groups in not respecting the confidentiality of private correspondence).

Perhaps the presumed "justification" is that it's okay to betray someone's confidence if they're "not one of us" (ie have the "wrong" views)? It may seem like a relatively trivial error of judgment. Documentary? Sources: Journey Digital Media - Absolutely Amazing New Phone: Flip Phones are Back! Free Classic AudioBooks. Digital narration for the 21st Century. Online converter - convert video, images, audio and documents for free. Nature Sounds. The Open Internet: A Case for Net Neutrality.

How to Crack a Wi-Fi Network's WEP Password with BackTrack. Hacking. 70 Things Every Computer Geek Should Know. The term ‘geek’, once used to label a circus freak, has morphed in meaning over the years. What was once an unusual profession transferred into a word indicating social awkwardness.

As time has gone on, the word has yet again morphed to indicate a new type of individual: someone who is obsessive over one (or more) particular subjects, whether it be science, photography, electronics, computers, media, or any other field. A geek is one who isn’t satisfied knowing only the surface facts, but instead has a visceral desire to learn everything possible about a particular subject. A techie geek is usually one who knows a little about everything, and is thus the person family and friends turn to whenever they have a question.

If you’re that type of person and are looking for a few extra skills to pick up, or if you’re a newbie aiming to get a handhold on the honor that is geekhood, read on to find out what skills you need to know. How to become a real computer Geek? You may get the answer here: The Best Hacking Tutorial Sites - Learn Legal Hacking. Free online hacking game - Slave hack, hack computers, banks and servers. Top 10 Web hacking techniques of 2010 revealed. Network World - A Web hack that can endanger online banking transactions is ranked the No. 1 new Web hacking technique for 2010 in a top 10 list selected by a panel of experts and open voting.

Top 10 Web hacking techniques of 2010 revealed

Called the Padding Oracle Crypto Attack, the hack takes advantage of how Microsoft's Web framework ASP.NET protects AES encryption cookies. FROM THE SECURITY WORLD: Quirky moments at Black Hat DC 2011 If encryption data in the cookie has been changed, the way ASP.NET handles it results in the application leaking some information about how to decrypt the traffic. With enough repeated changes and leaked information, the hacker can deduce which possible bytes can be eliminated from the encryption key.

That reduces the number of unknown bytes to a small enough number to be guessed. The developers of the hack -- Juliano Rizzo and Thai Duong -- have developed a tool for executing the hack. Here are the rest of the top 10 Web hacks voted in the competition: 2. 3. 4. 5. Hack This Site! Free Software. Top 6 Underground Search Engines You Never Knew About. Advertisement I love Google, Bing and Yahoo just as much as the next Internet user, but sometimes you really want to dig down into a particular subject.

Top 6 Underground Search Engines You Never Knew About

In order to do that, you really need access to those underground search engines that may not be quite as well known, but they dig much more deeply into specialized areas of the Internet than the general search engines are capable of. In many cases, these search engines are tapped into what is currently termed the “invisible web,” which is the information available on the Internet that standard search engines don’t have access to, because they are buried behind query forms or directory requests. The following 6 underground search engines that I chose are not porn sites, illegal piracy sites or anything else that could get you in trouble with the law, or with your significant other.

Instead, I term the following as “underground search engines” for two reasons. Here is a search for “classical music,” with over 300 results. Breathingearth - CO2, birth & death rates by country, simulated real-time. Domain Tools. Free login to any site. Exercises for Strengthening Internal Organs.