Ubisoft DRM Already Cracked
As expected, there has been a zero-day exploit for Ubisoft’s new shiny DRM (see my last post), in the newly released game Silent Hunter 5. Well, it was not totally zero-day, since it took slightly more than 24 hours, apparently. Still, indeed it is now the case that the only ones suffering from the whole [...]
PC: The Platform with Rampant DRM
Yeah, it’s horrible. DRM is rampant on the PC. Most recent example: Ubisoft. There is a good article on Rock Paper Shotgun about this. What they have announced to do is the following: With every future Ubisoft game, whether it’s single player or multiplayer, online or offline, boxed with a CD or delivered via download, [...]
Swiss RFID Referendum: Nearly There!
We’re nearly there, but the referendum against biometric Swiss passports is still lacking 4’500 signatures, and there’s only a few days left. So if you haven’t printed, signed, and sent in a signature sheet yet, please do so now! In short, again, the reasons why I think biometric passports as per the current proposal are [...]
Help! Terrorists in World of Warcraft!
Avast, me hearties! I played me fair share o’ World o’ Warcraft, enough t’ know ‘t’s incredibly addictive, an’ enough t’ know ‘t’s nay good fer me when I do. Which, I guess, won’t avast me from tryin’ ou’ Wrath o’ th’ Lich King an’ th’ new Davy Jones’ locker Knight class anyway when ‘t [...]
Stop RFID in Swiss Passports!
The Swiss government has decided that our passports, like a few before ours, should store data on RFID chips. Meaning, the following data would be stored in that chip: fingerprints a digital photograph all the data that’s also available in printed form (name, gender, date of birth, eye color, and so on) All this data [...]
How the LHC Actually Works
Neotorama was featuring this really interesting explanation of how the Large Hadron Collider actually works yesterday evening: Linear acceleration, circular boosting in 4 packets with pulses, further acceleration in the proton synchotron (a larger ring) and gain of mass, further energy addition in the super proton synchotron, and finally the LHC itself with 2 rings [...]
Big Bang! Or is it?
In case you haven’t noticed, the world hasn’t ended yet. Which is good I guess, particularly since it’s despite the LHC (which stands for Large Hadron Collider, apparently) having been switched on this morning at CERN. Everybody’s celebrating, even Google, with one of their famous doodles (uhm … does “please do not use them elsewhere” [...]
WordPress Updated, Plugin List
So I just did my first WordPress update to 2.6.2, 2.6.1 had a security hole. It went remarkably smooth, considering the horror stores I read (link German, click the links in that post for more) – as a matter of fact, everything seems to work as it should again. I’ll take this opportunity to list [...]
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