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Hardware Hacking

An Open Source Coffee Machine 99

Posted by timothy from the quite-entirely-unlike-tea dept.
An anonymous reader writes "The Open Source Coffee Machine [video link] is a recycled coffee machine, controlled by a PC running Beremiz, and using some MicroMod CANopen I/O nodes from Peak-System. This machine have been prepared by Peak-System and Lolitech for SCS-Paris-08 exhibition. It served free coffee during four days at Peak-System's booth, and has been donated to IUT of Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, France, so that students can have fun practicing automation."
Security

Microsoft's "Dead Cow" Patch Was 7 Years In the Making 203

Posted by timothy from the were-they-lean-years-or-fat-years? dept.
narramissic writes "Back in March 2001, a hacker named Josh Buchbinder (a.k.a Sir Dystic) published code showing how an attack on a flaw in Microsoft's SMB (Server Message Block) service worked. Or maybe the flaw was first disclosed at Defcon 2000, by Veracode Chief Scientist Christien Rioux (a.k.a. Dildog). It was so long ago, memory is dim. Either way, it has taken Microsoft an unusually long time to fix. Now, a mere seven and a half years later, Microsoft has released a patch. 'I've been holding my breath since 2001 for this patch,' said Shavlik Technologies CTO Eric Schultze, in an e-mailed statement. Buchbinder's attack, called a SMB relay attack, 'showed how easy it was to take control of a remote machine without knowing the password,' he said."
Cellphones

Why the Kill Switch Makes Sense For Android 384

Posted by kdawson from the open-in-its-bones dept.
Technologizer writes "It came out this week that Google's Android phone OS, like the iPhone, has a kill switch that lets Android Market applications be disabled remotely. But it's a mistake to lump Google's implementation and Apple's together — the Google version is a smart, pro-consumer move that avoids all the things that make Apple's version a bad idea."

Comment Re:What I don't get... (Score 1) 288

by nsrbrake (#24990011) Attached to: Examining Chrome's Source Code

Sad but true, "An application developed using cross-platform widgets will, at best, work well on one platform, and more usually on no platforms." QFT, but as you mention the underlying philosophies are a stumbling block. Worse when you drop the idiosyncrasies of a given application which the developer makes work on one platform and then trying to replicate that on other platforms/widget sets. I wonder if it would even be possible to dream up a grand unified HIG which could at least try to mitigate the platform differences during the design phase.

Feed Engadget: UniquePhones indefinitely delays release of iPhone SIM unlock software (engadget.com)

From feed by engfeed

Filed under: Cellphones

So, as you may have seen, earlier this morning at 3AM local time UniquePhones (the team behind iPhoneUnlocking.com, who've claimed to have the second proper iPhone SIM unlock software hack) got a threatening call from AT&T's legal team urging them to not release their software -- or else. Now, we can understand why any smallish business wouldn't exactly want lawyers repping AT&T (and Apple) breathing down their necks for a potentially market-shifting discovery -- which is why the company is now officially holding the release of their SIM unlock solution indefinitely while they assess their legal position. Fair enough, but we still haven't even had a chance to verify their solution does unlock iPhones. However, the interesting (and possibly telling) bit comes up at the end, where apparently UniquePhones is "evaluating what to eventually do with the software should they be legally denied the right to sell it." So here's to hoping that, should UniquePhones not find themselves able to actually sell their software, at very least this method they've discovered gets opened up to the public. After all, there's no reason why everyone shouldn't be able benefit from this knowledge just because one company isn't able to sell it, right?

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