John Adams’ views on emerging technologies, software engineering, and various hacks
My discoveries with the Wall of Sheep at Defcon 16 and it’s application to Twitter security were mentioned on the August 12, 2008 Data Security Podcast.
They called me one of the “good guys”. Heh!
You can listen to it here:
http://datasecurityblog.wordpress.com/2008/08/11/data-security-podcast-episode-13-aug-11-2008/
As someone who takes many photographs of random people in nightclubs and at events, I’m intrigued by the efforts of Columbia University’s team to write software that performs automated face replacement in digital photographs.
The software is able to replace faces within images from a database of candidate images drawn from the Internet and other sources, [...]
Tag Galaxy is a 2008 thesis project from Steven Wood at the University of Applied Sciences in Nuremberg. It allows you to explore flickr tags while looking at solar systems that represent photos and related tags.
Check it out at http://www.taggalaxy.de
People keep saying to me, “I don’t get Twitter, what is it that you do anyway?”
We just put out a pretty slick video showing people in San Francisco and New York using it, so maybe this’ll help !
How Do You Use Twitter? from biz stone on Vimeo.
I’m heading to Defcon 16 on Thursday to talk to some fellow hackers, meet colleagues, and to hopefully, not lose my shirt in Vegas. I think I’ll be much too busy to gamble, really.
For a conference that is so technically minded, they didn’t post the conference schedule in a useful format (HTML only! ew!), so [...]
