Balaji’s Blog

links for 2006-02-20

• Invasion of the Computer Snatchers
  While the story is okay by itself, the real story is that someone downloaded the images in the story, read the IPTC info in the file to determine where the photo was taken, and identified the gas station / strip club mentioned in the story!
  (tags: privacy hacking news)
• Elonka’s List of Famous Unsolved Codes and Ciphers
  (tags: interesting history cryptography)
• The Click That Broke a Government’s Grip
  (tags: censorship news)
• New Scientist Breaking News – Mathematical proofs getting harder to verify
  (tags: science maths news)

• This entry was posted on Monday, February 20th, 2006 at 9:20 pm and is filed under Only Links. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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  1. on February 22, 2006 at 8:16 pm memigo wrote:

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