I stumbled over this earlier today and thought it could be interresting to share. The idea itself is rather easy – get a trojan into someones computer and take eavesdropping to a new level. While earlier trojans mostly registered all your keyboard activity and logged everything you did, this trojan goes to the next step. It gives you the ability to eavesdrop on a skype conversation. This trojan also comes with complete source-code so...

A couple of weeks ago I was given an invitation token to a new streaming service much similar to Spotify. This new service with the project name WIMP is also based on the same technical setup as Spotify, coded in AIR. The main difference however is that where Spotify will remain free, you need to pay to use WIMP. Why? They do not believe in a comercial based income model. Fair enough. My first impression when loading the client is that...

Seeing I am in the musical mood tonight, I might as well include another find I had the other day. Animusic – a completely computer animated band. It’s impressive what they have been able to come up with using nothing but computer animations together with their music. Below you can watch one of their songs “Pipe Dreams”. You can find more songs from them on Youtube, though I would strongly encourage you to buy their...

I read a Norwegian news article earlier today regarding that spammers had overcome the current version of CAPTCHA that Microsoft uses at their services. And I can’t but help thinking that why are we fooling ourself? If it can be programmed then it can be reversed – end of discussion. Does it help? Not really, it only slow down the spammers, and make life miserable for the end-user of your webpage. Soon you need a doctor degree...