Shadi Almosri
Cloning ePassports - Bypassing Airport Security
The government plans to use ePassports at Immigration and Border
Control. The information is electronically read from the Passport
and displayed to a Border Control Officer or used by an automated
setup. THC has discovered weaknesses in the system to (by)pass the
security checks. The detection of fake passport chips does not
work. Test setups do not raise alerts when a modified chip
is used. This enables an attacker to create a Passport with an
altered Picture, Name, DoB, Nationality and other credentials
Preparing…
As the design is going up, i think it’s soon time for the portfolio!
Rapid application development (RAD) - Part 1
In recent months I have been asked questions various times regarding development methodologies for web 2.0 applications. The way I have become accustomed to work in the current web climate is to use what is known as rapid application development or RAD for short. RAD is an application development technique that incorporates the use of prototypes, iterative customisation, and CASE Tools.
Latest Facebook Social Virus - codecsetup.exe - Google links
There is currently a new undetected facebook spam virus spreading around with the use of spoofing a google url and mimicking the youtube video sharing site.
Ten Questions about Google Chrome
Four years ago, I blogged about rumors that Google was working on a Web browser. I found them intriguing, as anyone would, but no such browser ever appeared, and Google became an enthusiastic Firefox booster. The blogosphere pretty much stopped pondering the possibility of a Google browser, and so did I. But now all has changed…
R.I.P Usenet: 1980-2008
Before the Eternal September, but after the Great Renaming, I learned about the world on Usenet. A few years later, on ancient computers at unsociable hours, I met friends I still have today. We “spewed” about our teenage lives in ways that would be familiar to any MySpace blogger circa 2008, but that were radical, strange, and comforting in 1993. We made faraway friends, burned photos to CDs and mailed them to far away lands with way too many stamps. We were the first Net kids, really…
Lonely Root of 3
I’m sure that I will always be
A lonely number like root three
The three is all that’s good and right,
Why must my three keep out of sight
Beneath the vicious square root sign,
I wish instead I were a nine
For nine could thwart this evil trick,
with just some quick arithmetic
I know I’ll never see the sun, as 1.7321
Such [...]
Monitizing hyperlocal social networking: iPhone 3G + GPS + Social Networks
Jennifer Leggio today wrote a blog on ZDNet that brought up an interesting point about adding GPS functionality to social networking to allow for various updates and influences related to users and their friends.
This got me thinking about the wealth of information that social networks currently hold on a particular user to enable them to [...]
Think Before You Voicemail
Voicemail is dead. Please tell everyone so they’ll stop using it.
When I first started out in the real world in the mid-nineties voicemail was an important productivity tool. I remember people talking about the pros and cons of various enterprise voicemail systems - which had the best forwarding and group messaging, which allowed for archiving, [...]
I’m looking for writers!! Can you help out? probably….
Well for many years now I’ve enjoyed writing, be it for myself, publicly on my personal blog, business blog, technically or even on those scraps of paper that end up laying around everywhere.
I am sure there are many of you out there that have a keen interest in writing, and so it got me thinking [...]
