UK Passport troubles… again!

So after having had 3000 new blank ‘unbreakable’ passports stolen during delivery from the truck, they’ve (well, specifically, Jeroen van Beek of the UvA) now discovered that the passports can be cloned and altered (eg. have digital images inserted on them or other different biometrics, such as thumbprints, eyeprints) within a few minutes. The fraudulent Read more about UK Passport troubles… again![…]

Nitrogen oxide purifying concrete

The Dutch town of Hengelo will be trying out concrete that binds nitrogen oxide particles and using an additive turns these into harmless nitrates which are washed clean by the rain. Hengelo is testing this in one half of the new roads and measuring the effecacity by next summer.

Switzerland

Switzerland is a tool for testing networks, ISPs and firewalls developed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (www.eff.org). It will spot IP packets which are forged or modified between clients, inform you, and give you copies of the modified packets. SourceForge.net: Files

How The Hague will fuck up Scheveningen Beach

Well, I’ve just read the Concept-nota Strandbeleid 2008 (versie 17 april 2008). Besides wrecking the beach side by rebuilding the boulevard with a horrible diagonal sea wall and a main bus terminus in the middle of it, as well as destroying the allready bad parking situation by reducing the number of parking slots from 1020 Read more about How The Hague will fuck up Scheveningen Beach[…]