A falta de tiempo para otro tipo de post, esta entrada ilustra como nos engañamos al pensar que el desproposito que muestra es tan absurdo como a nosotros nos parece.

Y no, el cliente no quería un pastel para el cumpleaños de su llave USB favorita…
Via BoingBoing.

This is a world where massive amounts of data and applied mathematics replace every other tool that might be brought to bear. Out with every theory of human behavior, from linguistics to sociology. Forget taxonomy, ontology, and psychology. Who knows why people do what they do? The point is they do it, and we can track and measure it with unprecedented fidelity. With enough data, the numbers speak for themselves.»

Those days I’ve found some references to what’s called «Science 2.0».

Starting with this more conservative approach, to this radical one, being inspiring, to me they all present a fancy position.

Read this and this to get things into context.

What’s next? Are you guys going to state that P=NP because we can use “The Cloud” as the oracle in an Oracle Turing Machine?

Give me a break!

2. Conforme el párrafo b) del apartado 7 del artículo 25 de la Ley de Propiedad Intelectual y a los efectos en él previstos se entiende por «disco duro de ordenador» el dispositivo de almacenamiento magnético de un ordenador en el que se aloja el sistema operativo de dicho ordenador, al cual está conectado con carácter permanente, de forma que éste solo y exclusivamente pueda servir de disco maestro o del sistema en el sentido de que su conexión sólo le permite adoptar esa funcionalidad y no la de disco esclavo.»

De aquí (PDF).

Vía.

Me gustaría preguntarle a quién ha perpetrado semejante redacción a que «cosa» en concreto se estaba refiriendo, yo no conozco nada que concuerde con esa definición.

Ahora, que quizás se refiere a eso, a nada, al conjunto vacío.

Considero motivo de reflexión para los responsables que se cuele un redactado tan nefasto, absurdo y deficiente en una Orden Ministerial.

But it’s cool if take you it to Apple, because if your brokeass iPhone does become a refurb for some discount-seeking soul, Apple scrubs it to the bone, right? Nope. Using a standard forensic toolkit (or probably just some decent quasi-hacking), your personal data can be recovered from a refurb»

via gizmodo, from zdziarski.

via uninformaticoenelladodelmal.

No, no hablo de Adobe.

EULAs en el malware:

In cases of violations of the agreement and being detected, the client loses any technical support. Moreover, the binary code of your bot will be immediately sent to antivirus companies.»

The term is a play on phishing, an approach that usually involves tricking e-mail users — in this case the big fish — into divulging personal information like credit card numbers.»

From nytimes.

CAPTCHA exposed?

Ready your spam filters…

Leo en theregister sobre un artículo del ccc en el que explican haber conseguido una reproducción de la huella del índice derecho del ministro del interior alemán, Wolfgang Schauble, reproducción que puede ser usada para identificación en un lector de huellas.

The whole research has always been inspired by showing how insecure biometrics are, especially a biometric that you leave all over the place,» said Karsten Nohl, a colleague of an amateur researcher going by the moniker Starbug, who engineered the hack. «It’s basically like leaving the password to your computer everywhere you go without you being able to control it anymore.» 

El método no es nuevo. Haber conseguido la huella de un personaje tan relevante (si es cierto), si.

Y si, el tal Starbug es el mismo del post anterior.

The research team was able to obtain the card’s proprietary encryption scheme by physically dissecting its chip and examining it under a microscope. They then photographed various levels of its circuitry and used optical recognition software to produce a 3D representation of the entire chip. By examining the logic gates in great detail, they were able to deduce the proprietary algorithm, which NXP dubs Crypto1.

From theregister.