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Secure login with Ipod Shuffle RAID

March 15th, 2005 by teemow

Jim from ‘Wright this way’ bought 4 Ipod Shuffle and an USB hub to build a portable 4 GB Ipod Shuffle RAID for his Mac. He even tried to make it his boot device.

But if you think of people using pam_usb (Gentoo HOWTO) to authenticate themselves via an USB stick, there are even more capabilities than just saving data on the RAID (even better with crypto_fs) and giving those 4 Shuffles to differrent people, so that there is no chance to read the data until every Shuffle is back again.
Its the classical conspiracy organisation security thing. There are 4 viziers who will protect the secret chamber and you can just enter if you get all the Ipod Shuffles. Thats geeky!

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DartMail

March 14th, 2005 by teemow

DartMail Forget Bluejacking and war-driving.

Dartmail will be the new geek sport.

Just get yourself a plastic dart gun and shoot rfid chips at other people.

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O’Reilly Etech

March 14th, 2005 by teemow

Like every year, Felix and Stefan are covering Tim O’Reillys ‘Emerging Technologies Conference’ in San Diego.
There will be a lot of famous geeks around. Some Speakers: Cory Doctorow, Jeffrey P. Bezos (amazon founder), Mike Shaver (mozilla.org founder). Be sure to read a lot of blogs this week, I guess there will be a lot of rumor.

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CrunchBot

March 9th, 2005 by teemow

CrunchBot A gain a funny bot. Its used at the biscuit brand McVitie’s laboratory in Buckinghamshire to test the crumbliness of their cookies.

Liz Ashdown, brand manager at McVitie’s, said: “Eating lots of biscuits is obviously an enjoyable prospect for most people but we haven’t yet found a human who can test on this scale.”

Original story

via Boing Boing

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