Links for 14-03-2008
Firewire hardware hack; US free nuke program worries; the Amen Break and the Golden Mean…
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1 – ‘Disposable’ nuclear reactors raise security fears
“A US government-led plan to design small nuclear reactors for deployment in developing countries is continuing despite ongoing fears about security and proliferation risks.” Iran can’t have one, but George’s pals can get them for free!
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2 – Tool Physically Hacks Windows via Firewire
“… the attacker connects a Linux machine to the Firewire port on the victim’s machine… then gets full read-and-write memory access and the tool deactivates Windows’s password protection that resides in local memory.” PWNZ0R3D.
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3 – The “Amen Break” and Golden Proportion
“A student recently asked if I had any insights into why the “Amen Break” is so popular in some modern music.[...]I became intrigued when I saw an image of the audio waves themselves because I immediately recognized the Golden Ratio in the structure of it
March 14th, 2008 at 7:00 am
*Runs off to make an albums worth of Amen based tunes*
Good stuff!
March 14th, 2008 at 7:00 am
Make that album’s