Have you ever wondered how much your signature matters on the receipts for your credit card purchases? You can follow the journey of one man to figure out how goofy he can make his credit card signature before someone notices: The Credit Card Prank 1 & 2. Experiment 1 Experiment 2 … [Read more...]
Hotmail No Longer Allows Common Password, Takes Strides To Prevent Account Hijacking
Hotmail has introduced a few new features to help protect users from account hijacking. I've seen a lot of hijacking in the past few years where somebody will get access to your e-mail account like a Hotmail or Yahoo!. Instead of taking over the account and changing the password or anything, they might send a few messages out to all your contacts and the messages might be spam … [Read more...]
Customers Providing Netflix With Valuable Feedback Following Service Change and Price Increase
Following Netflix's recent decision to separate Unlimited Streaming and Unlimited DVD into two separate programs with a 60% price increase to maintain the same level of service, customers have been very vocal online through Facebook, Twitter, and the Netflix blog comments. Now, it appears customers are providing the same valuable feedback for the DVD sorters to enjoy: … [Read more...]
Wirelessly Hijacking What’s Typed Into a Keyboard
http://vimeo.com/2007855 This reminds me of Van Eck Phreaking where you could do the same thing with CRT monitors. The video is 3 years old but still a bit scary. Good luck finding a laptop with a P/S2 port on it. Read the full article and download the paper on wirelessly reading from a wired keyboard using its own electromagnetic emanations. … [Read more...]
Steam Updates Its Code To Optimize Downloads
Steam, the immensely popular digital video game distributor, announces in a news release this afternoon that it has made some changes to its behind-the-scenes code, server and client side, to optimize downloads. The new content system is designed to do two things: deliver better download rates in more places around the world, and also to simply streamline the publishing process … [Read more...]