The Fraunhofer institute has found a way to crack Bitlocker, which is the Windows Vista drive encryption mechanism. Booting from a USB stick allows you to replace the bootscreen with a fake bitlocker bootscreenafter which the PIN is stored on the harddisk for later retreival by booting with a Linux USB stick afterwards. Fraunhofer SIT Read more about Fraunhofer cracks Bitlocker[…]
The Fraunhofer institute has found a way to crack Bitlocker, which is the Windows Vista drive encryption mechanism. Booting from a USB stick allows you to replace the bootscreen with a fake bitlocker bootscreenafter which the PIN is stored on the harddisk for later retreival by booting with a Linux USB stick afterwards. Fraunhofer SIT Read more about Fraunhofer cracks Bitlocker[…]
Burt Rutan’s Scaled Composites has unveiled the Virgin Galactic sponsored Spaceship two, the ship that will bring commercial space travellers into space at reasonably affordable prices. News – Virgin Galactic unveils SpaceShipTwo, the world’s first manned commercial spaceship | Virgin Galactic.
These goggles will have a heads up display in them where you can see call info, speed, hight, timing information, rate of descent, a moving map and be able to find friends. Hopefully out in 2010 and they’re going for reasonable prices too! Should be awesome for the gadget conscious snowboarder or skier! Recon Instruments Read more about Recon Instruments HUD Goggles[…]
The solar impulse is a completely solar powered aeroplane. The flight was a short one – 350m at an elevation of 1m, but it proved the concept! Solar Impulse Completes First Flight | Autopia | Wired.com.
Stonebridge engineering has found a way to capture lightning within 3D polymers. The’re fractals and they look awesome!
Prof Lajeunesse interviewed 20 heterosexual male university students who consumed pornography, and found on average, they first watched pornography when they were 10 years old. Around 90 per cent of consumption was on the internet, while 10 per cent of material came from video stores. Single men watched pornography for an average of 40 minutes, Read more about All men watch porn[…]
If you have a cellphone, it turns out that Sprint keeps 24 months of your location data and turns it over to law enforcement regularly. 8 million requests were made over the last year. Requests can be made every 3 minutes for up to 60 days. Sprint isn’t the only one who tracks this data: Read more about Sprint Makes Goverment Tracking of GPS Data Easy[…]
Using electromagnetic pulses, researchers have found a way to impact steel at around 3500 bar allowing holes to be cut in hard steel in 200ms, around 7 times faster than a laser can. Electromagnetic fields as cutting tools.
Using Titanium you can develop desktop, android or iphone applications using your favorite web technology, such as PHP, HTML or Javascript. Developing desktop applications by using web technologies – ThinkPHP /dev/blog.
This connects a number of USB drives to your network, basically turning them into a NAS. SHARKOON Technologies GmbH.
SCIENTISTS have grown meat in the laboratory for the first time. Experts in Holland used cells from a live pig to replicate growth in a petri dish. The advent of so-called “in-vitro” or cultured meat could reduce the billions of tons of greenhouse gases emitted each year by farm animals — if people are willing Read more about The Future is Here! Vat-grown meat![…]
All your banking details will be given to the Americans, who can then also pass it on to third parties as they so wish. The EU will not be able to sift through US banking data. Why the EU gave away our private data is a totaly mystery. Privacy rights? Whatever. EU to approve more Read more about US gets EU Swift data[…]