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Biometric passport cracked

By   John Garner on   Monday, August 7, 2006
An article in the Guardian getting their source from Wired.com recounts how Lukas Grunwald, a German security consultant has been able to copy the data from biometric passports using 200 dollar equipment. Although the cloned data cannot apparently be modified, the so called unbreakable RFID tag technology seems less secure than expected. The technology behind […]
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Kidnapped, previewed via NetFlix

By   John Garner on   Monday, August 7, 2006
The new series called Kidnapped is being shipped on DVD to Netflix customers nearly six weeks prior to its launch date on NBC. Certain Netflix customers received yesterday a DVD with the first episodes of NBC's Studio 60 and Kidnapped. The target audience of Netflix is without doubt an interesting audience to tap, "demographic rich" […]
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Is it a plane, a bird, a telephone, no it's a door key

By   John Garner on   Sunday, August 6, 2006
Well looking at the myKey 2300 you would maybe think that it was a telephone, but the clue is that it's missing a door. The MyKey 2300 is an RFID lock that requires a RFID card and shazam your door opens on it's own. They have even thought of adding a keypad that slides open […]
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Je me demande à quoi sert ce bouton ?

By   John Garner on   Friday, August 4, 2006
Mon premier article en français n'est pas de moi. Il s'agit de la traduction d'un article très intéressant en français, écrit par Mike West ! Mike évoque tout l'intérêt d'utiliser le logiciel Subversion pour gérer le contrôle des versions de fichiers dans la gestion d'un projet avec workflow. Il a été publié par le prestigieux […]
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No smoking

By   John Garner on   Friday, August 4, 2006
Last Saturday during a dinner with friends we started talking about the latest 'Enjeux, Les Echos' magazine. One of the articles covers the trend in the US whereby certain companies are refusing to hire people that smoke. There are also companies that are doing all they can to get workers to participate in sports activities. […]
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Outlook refusing to start Word

By   John Garner on   Wednesday, August 2, 2006
Well this morning I was set to write to Mike to say that it was a pleasure working on the translation of his great article at 'A List Apart' and Word refused to start : Microsoft Word is set to be your e-mail editor. However, Word is unavailable, not installed, or is not the same […]
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