MetaFilter posts tagged with hack

CGI-brows short mockumentary

planetkyoto — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:04:40 -0800

CGI-brows (link goes to video on Vimeo which contains a naughty word but is otherwise SFW.) A short mockumentary about extreme emoting through SFX by RocketSausage (Dir. Andrew Gaynord) which has won the Virgin Media Shorts People's Choice Award for 2009.

The Present and Future of Mobile Phones

filthy light thief — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:35:50 -0800

Jan Chipchase is employeed by Nokia in the "corporate anthropology" field, but he considers it "design research," as he's not an anthropologist by training. His work covers researching how people modify their phones in China, India, Ghana, and elsewhere, adding features or extending battery life. He also tracks how cellphones are associated with personal identity and how they are playing roles far from urban and suburban centers. In some locations, cell phone numbers are written above doorways for identification, when there is no official map or organization for streets. He also blogs about his experiences, and his most recent post, he covers the rise of "Super Fakes." The term "super fake" is often applied to designer goods and can refer to counterfeit money. But in terms of fashion products, imitation goods are more than an attempt to dupe the unknowing end-user to maximize profit. Chipchase's question, "What happens when a large % of your target market wants your brand cachet but is happy with a decent-enough quality fake?" is about branded technology, but the question can also be applied to knock-off purses. Knock-off electronics have their own following, with some websites devoted to such items. Such sites can do more than detail the successes and feature sets of imitation products, they may also add background details to news stories (the original story didn't detail that MediaTek is only now shifting to legit production, starting in production of knock-offs). Shanzhai, previously.

Fail whale: hax0red!!

uaudio — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:43:02 -0800

TechCrunch claims it has been sent hundreds of internal Twitter documents from passcodes to meeting notes. Today the site released several of the documents, including financial projections. The documents were provided by "Hacker Croll" and were accessed in May. According to the documents, Twitter will have 25 million users this year, 100 million next year and 350 million in 2011. By 2013, internal projections are 1 billion users, $1.54 billion in revenue, 5,200 employees and $111 million in net earnings.

The Future! Brought to you by generous geeks of the world.

mhjb — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:18:40 -0800

Foldable Display Tracking - more Wiimote magic from Johnny Lee Chung [previously].

Wanna be hackers? Code crackers?

filthy light thief — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 07:57:01 -0800

The Happy Hacker offers you the secrets and tools to become an Überhacker and Cyberwarrior, and even how to build a railgun. But who is this Happy Hacker? Though other folks are now involved with the website, Carolyn P. Meinel is the primary face of The Happy Hacker. She is a long-time computer hacker, going back to getting unapproved access to the PLATO system (previously). She started Happy Hacker because "all sorts of guys were begging me, 'teach me how to hack'." Her webpage gained attention, getting mentioned in The Happy Mutant Handbook, and being invited to speak at Defcon. But there are people who doubt her credentials, and others who are a lot more harsh. Regardless of the backlash, and the appearance that the peak of The Happy Hacker has passed, her articles are still being published.

I like to watch.

Pope Guilty — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:56:38 -0800

Watch anonymous Wikipedia edits as they happen, where they happen.

NEW WAY OF DRIVING ALL GREEN

rageagainsttherobots — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 05:46:46 -0800

Scott Summit, a self-anointed solution engineer and life hacker, shows you how to beat the traffic system at its own game.

ZOMBIES AHEAD!

butterstick — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:50:56 -0800

CAUTION! ZOMBIES! AHEAD!!! First(?) published on Make, these instructions on how to set the text on construction warning signs lead to hilarity. say... you got your INTARWEB in my RL!!1

Oh shit, I just broke the Internet

Glibpaxman — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:43:55 -0800

"There is no saving the internet. There is only postponing the inevitable." Wired Magazine looks at the history of DNS and the Kaminsky attack. Kaminsky, previously Open DNS, previously

Cyberbattles in the shadows

msalt — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 12:16:52 -0800

Hacking Al-Qaeda's websites: Hacker wars are the latest front in the fight against Al Qaeda. CNN says here that AQ may be unable to post propaganda videos as a result. But who is attacking? As far back as 2002, people speculated that Western intelligence agencies had compromised them, and a pornographer claimed he did. More recently, there are Shiite vs. Sunni battles, as when Ayatollah Sistani's website was cracked. In 2004, Zarqawi's site was breached.

Jump to it

Korou — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 01:35:03 -0800

Sometimes with Youtube, there's a specific part of a video you want people to see. Splicd generates a url to send people that clip. For instance: cooking a rat or an interesting part of a lecture. (On load, a small amount of each clip's beginning is played.) The spliced video's url can be easily manipulated: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9A_31-osm8 http://splicd.com/a9A_31-osm8/330/374 http://splicd.com/[video-code]/[starting-second]/[ending-second] In Google Video, add #[number]m[number]s to the end of a url and jump to that time: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4915875929930836239#7m00s

palin's yahoo mail hacked ... oh anonymous, what will you do next

yeoz — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 11:05:22 -0800

Sarah Palin's email gets hacked by Anonymous (right, that Anonymous). And given the legal contro versy surrounding her email, one wonders if the fact that her yahoo email accounts are now deleted constitutes destruction of evidence or violations of public-records laws. Its hit Wikileaks too, but, I'm not sure they have more then what's already released (rapidshare).

Hacking the Hadron

fixedgear — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 16:17:15 -0800

Hackers attack Large Hadron Collider Hackers have mounted an attack on the Large Hadron Collider, raising concerns about the security of the biggest experiment in the world as it passes an important new milestone.

23C3 Body Hacking

Hypocrites — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 00:47:17 -0800

What happens when we leave behind cosmetics and societal norms to modify our bodies and minds to enhance who we are and what we can do? In this talk, journalist Quinn Norton explores how technology and flesh are coming together.

Pacemaker vulnerable to remote hacking

spock — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 07:00:18 -0800

Serious as a heart attack: A collaboration of various medical researchers in the academic field has led to proof that pacemakers can be remotely hacked with simple and accessible equipment. This is a proof of concept, but the real question is: How many other pacemakers and medical devices are similarly vulnerable? (Writers may note a new twist available for the assassination of characters in their novels and screenplays.)

And DJB's $500 is safe for another day

Skorgu — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:57:48 -0800

A major flaw in the DNS system is promised to be revealed at the next Black Hat conference. Convinced it was too important to wait, security researcher Dan Kaminsky (video, autoplays) convinced several software vendors to issue emergency patches today, before publicizing details of the attack. It can't be that serious though, can it? Oh yes it can.

Well, That Took Balls...

rooftop secrets — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:27:50 -0800

Nicolás Guagnini has produced an art book entitled 77 Testicular Imprints. You can see an example here. Not everyone is impressed (scroll to #4). The paintings were produced with oil paint applied directly to the artist’s testicles and imprinted on various bound and ephemeral printed matter including: mainstream magazines such as Time and Life; art market staples such as Artforum, Art in America and Art News; exhibition and auction catalogues; rare magazines and artist’s books; personal letters; and lastly, on an assortment of original artworks, poems and studio notes by Vito Acconci, Simon Bedwell, Alejandro Cesarco and Dan Graham. Like Marcel Broodthaers’ eagles, the testicular imprints also delineate a critical archive, acting like stamps of inclusion. What Guagnini establishes through this process are the relationships between Patriarchy, Private Property, Power, Progress, Position, Packaging and Personality in twentieth-century art production.

This complete breakfast: Feedback Loops

huckhound — Tue, 20 May 2008 23:02:35 -0800

You Tube on You Tube . . .

Phreaking subculture alive and well

Roach — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:01:51 -0800

If you thought phone phreaking was a dying art, you may be surprised to read the story of "Li'l Hacker", as told by old-school hack/phreaker Kevin Poulsen.

Hide an image in html

Dave Faris — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 20:55:43 -0800

Hide an image in html ... a neat CSS trick. Highlight the block of text at the bottom of the page as if you were going to cut & paste it. The image is from Shepard Fairey and the text is from Ted Kennedy's endorsement speech of Obama, Jan. 28, 2008. (Apologies for the TinyUrl, but it's the only way I could pass all of the speech's text. The direct and true link to this app is http://metaatem.net/highlite/.)

Itsy Bitys Zesty Systy: The Wifi Touch-screen 3G 20GB Asus Eee PC (now with Leopard)

humannaire — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 13:30:46 -0800

What's better than a wifi-equipped Asus Eee sub-notebook PC with touchscreen? Simple. An Asus Eee sub-notebook PC with touchscreen and 3G HSDPA modem. Still want more? How about an upgrade of on-board storage — from 4 gigabytes to 20gb? And if you're planning on overwriting the Eee's Xandros/pre-installed Linux distribution in the first place (in order to install a non open-source platform) you may want to consider making a complete switch-over and being the first on your block with a (legally iffy) sub-notebook running Macintosh. Previously: 1, 2, 3.

Wii Want To Hack

ShawnStruck — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 09:56:31 -0800

A presentation at the 24th Annual Chaos Communication Congress convention for hackers in Germany [previously mentioned in MeFi] revealed a proof of concept: the Nintendo Wii's Power PC "Broadway" chip has been completely hacked. (via OMGNintendo)

Make sure to clean your logfiles.

flatluigi — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 22:31:54 -0800

Ever admired those hard-working hackers, toiling away to get you the programs you've always loathed to have? Have you ever dreamt of exploring the innards of someone else's computer but have held back due to those pesky legalities? If you said yes to either of the above questions or just want to play an online hacking simulation, then SlaveHack is the website for you. Protip: Some useful programs and extensions, including a logfile parser, can be found here.

A history of television hijacking.

ooklala — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 18:05:55 -0800

During the 70s and 80s a new phenomenon appeared. Television Hijacking. It started in 1977 when a man in England hijacked the sound broadcast of a newscast. In 1986, a hijacker known as Captain Midnight hijacked HBO in response to their scrambling of television signals. The year after (20 years ago as of today), a character disguised as Max Headroom (a television character) infiltrated two Chicago television studios in one night. First the man infiltrated Channel 9 (WGN) for a few seconds with no sound, and then moved on to attack another Chicago station, this time with sound. After the Max Headroom incident, television hacking incidents were rare in the United States except for this one in Wyoming.

These Come From Trees

nthdegx — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 08:18:12 -0800

These Come From Trees "Testing shows a 'These Come From Trees' sticker on a paper towel dispenser reduces paper towel consumption by ~15%"