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Archive for August, 2010

First Computer Virus that Spanair flight?

Posted by deepquest under Security (No Respond)

The Spanair plane crash that killed 154 people two years ago on Friday may have been partly caused by malware, according to reports. The newspaper El Pais reported on Friday that Spanair’s mainframe was contaminated with Trojans at the time that Flight JK 5022 to Gran Canaria crashed just after take-off at Madrid’s Barajas airport. The mainframe […]

That’s the way we do it

Posted by deepquest under /dev/nullies (No Respond)

We make judgments based mainly on our experiences and what we see. This dependency on visual information can create large blind spots. Thus, usual stereotypes of how we perceive solid, transparency and lighting are employed in this project to play with notions of ‘solid and void’, and ‘true and false’.

Hacker pretends to be Axl Rose and Cancels Guns N Roses Tour Via Twitter

Posted by deepquest under Privacy, Security, twitter (No Respond)

Axl Rose + Twitter has always looked like recipe for disaster, but he really served up a humdinger yesterday when Guns N Roses singer suggested that all of the band’s upcoming tour dates may be cancelled. Tweeting late last night, the singer’s message simply read “All upcoming Guns N’ Roses dates are officially cancelled. Please […]

Install a virtual GSM relay (BTS) on Android

Posted by deepquest under Android, smartphone (2 Responds)

With minimal work it’s possible to get gnuradio andOpenBTS working on the ARMEL architecture used on the Droid, allowing my Droid to act as a base station to which handsets can connect; the Droid then connects calls using an on-board Asterisk server and routes them to the PSTN via SIP over Verizon’s 3G network. The quick […]

ÜberTwitter: your secret spy?

Posted by deepquest under blackberry, Security (No Respond)

We discovered ÜberTwitter (@ubertwiter) a well-known twitter client for BlackBerry platform. During the traffic analysis we realized that this nice application each time you start it sends without warning the following data to UberTwitter’s servers: Personal Identification Number BlackBerry (PIN) Phone Number e-mail Physical Location of equipment