Hacking a bridge

Posted by: Owen on Saturday, 17th Feb, 2007

Here’s a cool project. As part of SwitchedOnLondon, the Tower Bridge in London has been turned into a massive light artefact. The cool thing is that pattern of lights on the Tower Bridge is actually governed by people walking along London Bridge, just down the road. Sensors on London Bridge sense Bluetooth devices as they [...]

Security Links

Posted by: Owen on Saturday, 13th Jan, 2007

Interesting post on Lifehacker about Ophcrack Live CD which is a resource to help you recover lost Windows passwords. Apparently you create a CD which you boot with. This examines your Windows partition and extracts any passwords it finds from it. The other interesting aspect of the post is the commend thread that follows as [...]

WGA hack still works

Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 2nd Aug, 2005

Had to try this just to verify. The Windows “Genuine Advantage” initiative still hasn’t fixed the rudimentary hack reported on BoingBoing last week. You’d expect that someone would have plugged the hole, even renaming the flag (g_sDisableWGACheck) would stop most of the uneducated populace from taking advantage of the hack.

50 fun things to do on your iPod

Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 17th May, 2005

Found on Kottke …
In the four years since its introduction, the iPod has proven to be a versatile little device. Despite a relatively closed architecture, hackers have found their way in. Content creators and software makers put information at your fingertips when you’re on the go. Would-be designers have added to the fashionable stylings of [...]

Tracking down the vendor portion of a MAC address

Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 11th May, 2005

Now .. this is interesting

I was trying to track down the source of an IP address conflict earlier today and I came across two sites offering a search service for the initial 24-bit (6 digit hexadecimal) vendor portion of an Ethernet media access control (MAC) address. The IEEE service is the official one, from where [...]

Show My IP

Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 26th Apr, 2005

Ever wondered what your external IP address was ? : http://www.showmyip.com/

Wardriving Resources

Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 8th Mar, 2005

Today, an email conversation at work turned to the subject of WarDriving. Quite an interesting debate, and while it was raging on I came up with a couple of interesting links I wanted to post here for posterity:

WarLinux - A bootable Linux distro packed with WarDriving tools
WiFiMaps.com - A web based interactive map [...]