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Anybody notice the table of contents and page numbers?

Thanks! I agree that things like this are pretty fantastic. Part of me misses those days of being so experimental and new to tech. Sorry to hear about your hard drive, though :)

I'm sure. I'm not exactly surprised that it happened now ;)

Ah, yeah, I remember that too now :)

Yep, I remember both being sent via plaintext.

The Steve Gibson story was really interesting. He's a really cool guy, too. My botnet adventures happened around the same time as his, and I too was DDoS'd. We even exchanged a few…

When I was a teenager I found it fun to intentionally infect myself with malware and try to study it. I know realize this wasn't the most responsible thing to do, as I wasn't in a …

This reminds me of the push here in NYC for all of the city agencies to open their data via an API. It's gotten better over time, but when the initiative first took flight, it was …

Ahem. That's "phreaking"... As in phone phreaking. -- coming from an ex-phone phreak ;)

Interesting. I wonder, though, what the advantages of executing sandboxed ruby in the browser are?

To my knowledge, this vulnerability is anything but new. It's been around for years.

Why not just change the storage strategy to saving files locally while in your test environment? Fog lets you do this easily with its configuration options.

This is wonderful. I love the feel of interface.

If I hadn't just got a Nike Fuel band, I'd probably get one of those! Don't think I could pull off wearing both.

I like this idea. Sounds like a "nicer" interaction.

This is awesome! I had a couple of free hours, so I hacked together a little Ruby app that validates a telephone number and full name pair. This could be used for sign-up security,…

May 2012 be a prosperous, educational, and motivating year for all!