Rob Gallagher
Security
Spy on your friends, fun at parties
Jun 13th
In another step on the road to 1984, the following devices were announced today:
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A Digital recorder that makes recording and archiving telephone conversations trivial – encodes to MP3 on the fly for storage on an SD Card.
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A personal DNA tester that can work with up to 4 samples at a time.
I’d imagine these devices are probably illegal in quite a few countries…
Wireless Death Star
May 29th
OK this thing is a bit mad. If it’s real that is..
Mmm…spiky.
It’s called the Slurpr and it’s capable of combining up to six wireless networks into a single channel, effectively giving you one phat connection that hoses any open wireless in the vicinity. Of course these have to be unsecured networks – but the Slupr’s 266mhz processor and onboard memory opens up the possibility of cracking encryption such as WEP on the fly. Badass.
From the desk of Mrs Maureen Haughey…
Apr 17th
Normally these things are two-a-penny and I don’t pay too much attention to them, however
there is a 419 scam doing the rounds at the moment that can’t have any other purpose than to
entertain:
…The Irish government thinks it can shave and reduce me to a poor widow but I have the winning ace.A few years ago, when we weren’t sure if my Charlie would be convicted, he kept some money in trust for me in a Security and Finance company. He did not open the account in our names so it will not be traced to us to enable the past remain the past. The name on the account is Cedric de Vregille. I never thought Charlie would leave me so soon and it never occurred to me to ask if this name were fictitious or not or a name of any of his friends. I have tried to find this man but to no avail. The amount he deposited in this name is 30,000,000 (Thirty Million Euros)…
Read the full thing here.
