Posts by Eric Graves

US military access cards cracked by Chinese hackers

Meh

Contrary to what the article says, a Smart Card and pin wouldn't really get you into anything interesting, it certainly won't give you access to anything classified, and most systems that house sensitive unclassified info require some additional login credentials. Of course, if the trojan is capturing all that too, they may get some intel value out of it if they luck upon infecting the right user, ie, some clueless General who will then come up with even more asinine security policies and training for the rest of us as a cover for his own ineptitude.

LOHAN to suck mighty thruster as it goes off, in a shed

SUCKER?

Suction Utilizing Chamber for Kinetic Energy Rocket

Amazon punters go mad for 'Laptop Steering Wheel Desk'

Need one for my jet

Do they make one of these for aircraft control columns? I need somewhere to put my laptop while flying. Oh, hang on, I think I hear center calling me on guard.

Manhunt, mods and maddened mothers

So it's only OK when the movie studios do it?

There's still a widespread perception that video games are for kids and therefore are in need of much stricter controls. Holywood realeases far more graphic scenes of sex and violence everyday with only an R rating, and then when they include content that the censors didn't approve, they openly brag about it, advertising the special 'unrated edition.' Yet, when someone manages to get access to content that was never meant to be released we're supposed to be outraged? Just put the same little warning you find on DVDs, something to the effect of "Additional content not designed to be accessed during play has not been rated by the ESRB." Problem solved.