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 passports are verified as ‘real’ by the official software and equipment used to verify them.

Image Fulgurator

The Image Fulgurator is a device for physically manipulating photographs. It intervenes when a photo is being taken, without the photographer being able to detect anything. It intervenes when a photo is being taken, without the photographer being able to detect anything. The manipulation is only visible on the photo afterwards. The manipulation is only visible on the photo afterwards.

In principle, the Fulgurator can be used anywhere where there is another camera nearby that is being used with a flash. In principle, the Fulgurator can be used anywhere where there is another camera nearby that is being used with a flash. It operates via a kind of reactive flash projection that enables an image to be projected on an object exactly at the moment when someone else is photographing it. It operates via a kind of reactive flash projection that enables an image to be projected on an object at exactly the moment when someone else is photographing it. The intervention is unobtrusive because it takes only a few milliseconds. The intervention is unobtrusive because it takes only a few milliseconds. Every photo another photographer takes of an object at which the Fulgurator is also aimed is affected by the manipulation. Every photographer takes another photo of an object at which the Fulgurator is also aimed is affected by the manipulation. Hence visual information can be smuggled unnoticed into the images of others. Hence visual information can be smuggled unnoticed into the images of others.

Basically it projects ghosts into digital images unnoticeably.

Microsoft Coffee

There are a couple of *NIX distributions out there that come on a CD with loads of hacking and cracking tool. None is officially released by Microsoft. Untill now. COFEE (Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor) is a USB stick with allegedly over 100 tools and a mouseclick away from hacking your base, some of it by ransacking your live RAM. It’s distributed to law enforcement all over the world, and MS denies that it uses the MS backdoor.

There’s loads more to find out there on Google.

GUI Command Codes to improve WoW graphics

This is copy/paist of: http://www.worldofraids.com/ just thougt some ppl might wana try this.

Gfx enhancement macro: WoW will look better

Some players found a way to improve WoW graphics by manipulating several console commands. The following macro will do the job:

/console farclip 777
/console horizonfarclip 6226
/console groundeffectdensity 256
/console groundeffectdist 140
/console smallcull 0
/console skycloudlod 3
/console characterambient 0

You have to restart WoW for some of the effects to be used.

What does this do?

• The vegetation can be seen from miles away (grass flowers etc) plus there seems to be FAR more of it.
• The “bloom” effect seems to be more vivid.
• The view distance is greatly increased.
• Everything seems to be more sharp and crisp.
• The weather effects appear to be more intense.

See below for some examples:

http://www.worldofraids.com/2008/april/terokkar.jpg
http://www.worldofraids.com/2008/april/darkshorem.jpg

However depending on your hardware you might encounter some fps issues (low framerates), so here is the macro to revert the changes (you can also go to video options and pull all the detail options to minimum):

/console groundEffectDensity 16
/console groundEffectDist 1
/console horizonfarclip 1305
/console farclip 177
/console characterAmbient 1
/console smallcull 1
/console skycloudlod 1
/console detailDoodadAlpha 1

Broncode mmo Eve Online lekt uit

De broncode van de mmo Eve Online is uitgelekt. De code van de client van het spel is onder andere via torrentsite The Pirate Bay te downloaden. Ontwikkelaar CCP bant iedereen die de code binnenhaalt.

………………….Bovendien wil deze gamer weten waarom CCP geen detectieroutines in de client heeft ingebouwd en dus alleen vanaf de servers op bots jaagt: de broncode van Eve Online is eerder uitgelekt en CCP zou sindsdien nauwelijks maatregelen hebben genomen tegen de bots die het spel teisteren. De helpdeskmedewerker vertelt daarop dat CCP de voorkeur geeft aan het maken van uitbreidingen van het spel en niet aan veiligheid…………….

Official URL Link

RFID credit cards easily hacked with $8 reader

The RFID hacks keep coming fast and furious — hot the heels of that Mifare / Oyster Card exploit, the crew at BoingBoing TV has posted up a little demo of how easy cracking the RFID encryption on an American Express card can be. All it takes is an $8 dollar reader easily available on eBay, some software, and the courage to walk around with a laptop waving plastic boxes at people’s butt pockets, but developer Pablos Holman says he’s hoping to develop a newer version that will allow him to be a little more discreet. The root of the problem is apparently the fact that the system uses local decryption rather than sending card info to a secure data center, but either way we’ve been worried about this for a long time — we’re sticking to loose change and the barter system from now on.

RFID credit cards easily hacked with $8 reader – Engadget