Eavesdropping on Encrypted Compressed Voice: “Impressive.” David Robson has a writeup on New Scientist’s site that talks about recovering content based on packet size. Knowing how sounds are encoded can help the attackers guess at the sounds that led to the observed packet sizes. The software breaks down a typed phrase to be listened for …
Monthly Archive: June 2008
Jun
20
U.S. motorists brave Mexico border violence for fuel | U.S. | Reuters
U.S. motorists brave Mexico border violence for fuel. A recent article about cross-border shopping for fuel in southern California inadvertently points out how miserably people perform risk-reward calculations. One driver, when asked about his cross-border fuel shopping, in light of rampant drug violence in Sinaloa MX these days says: “‘I know they could kill me …
Jun
01
Quicksilver and screen locking.
A few people have asked me how I lock my screen so conveniently when I walk away from my Mac. Here are two approaches that I’ve used. Both of them have relied on Quicksilver, a wonderfully powerful application that I cannot stand to be without. Method 1 : Activate the Screen Saver on Hotkey activation. …