A recent fad almost as popular as planking is the art of hacking electronic road signs. It’s remarkably easy to sneak up to these things when nobody’s looking and input your own message for passersby to read. A quick Internet search will turn up instructions on how it’s done; here are 25 of the most epic road sign hacks ever. Read more »
First, there was the PSN über-meltdown. Either an extremely evil person tried to get their hands on all those users’ credit card information, or some smart aleck thought it would be a good idea to teach Sony a lesson about security measures by obliterating their entire network. Afterwards, another arm of the company, Sony Online Entertainment, was also hacked, compromising the personal information of SOE’s 24.6 million users. (SOE was never taken down the way the PlayStation Network was, so it’s services never suffered an outage.) But that was only the beginning. Around mid-May, the website for Eidos Interactive (publisher of Deus Ex, Tomb Raider, and others) was hacked, compromising Read more »
Are you a gambler? Slot machines, while popular with many, and fun with all of their lights, sounds and colors, are generally something to steer clear of given their low success rate. Read more »
I personally think that Geeks are not only into geeky things like anime, comics and gadgets. They should also be tech-savvy. And when I say tech-savvy, I don’t just mean that they know how to use computers and the internet. They should be able to understand things at a “computer scientist’s” (for a lack of better term, hehe. B.S. of Computer Science anyone?) point of view. Here’s a little geek tip I’ve come across just recently. This video was posted almost 3 years ago, but I bet your badoodles not a lot of people are aware of this. I sure wasn’t! Now I’m actually scared of using those free Wi-Fi Read more »
Do you pay as much attention to your passwords as you need to? I will have to be honest and say that I probably need to be more vigilant in this regard. For the time that I spend online and all the sites that I gain secure access to, I do not really put that high of a priority in strong passwords. What I read today has made me think really hard, though. John Pozadzides, Internet standards expert, CEO of web company iFusion Labs, and blogger recently published an article titled “How I’d Hack Your Weak Passwords.” What he revealed is striking, to say the least. We all know that Read more »
