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TV coverage of online banking card-reader vulnerabilities

This evening (Monday 26th October 2009, at 19:30 UTC), BBC Inside Out will show Saar Drimer and I demonstrating how the use of smart card readers, being issued in the UK to authenticate online banking transactions, can be circumvented. The programme will be broadcast on BBC One, but only in the East of England and [...] [...]

PHP SMS Sender

Simple SMS sender It is no secret that almost all the cell phone companies today allow you to send txt messages to a person’s cell phone for free by means of emailing them a txt. This does not mean the company will not charge the receiver but the sender will not be charged.  To do [...] [...]

A rocking horse for Sophie

Hmmm, almost Christmas again. Being someone who ‘makes stuff’ my sister asked if I was making something for Sophie for Christmas this year. I suggested a rocking horse. This is my attempt to do so. I don’t have much experience with horses. Probably the closest I have been is gluing two bits of paper together. [...] [...]

Lone Coder: VirtualBox on Vista with a Gentoo Guest

Regardless if you think Gentoo is genius or madness, a manual install represents the ultimate challenge to boot Linux on VirtualBox. [...]