Another historic first from 25C3, the first-ever (confirmed) Dual Dunkin’ Donuts Distributed Denial of Service (DDDDDoS) attack. Two Dunkin’ Donuts stores near the conference center in Alexanderplatz were simultaneously flashmobbed by hundreds of hackers, temporarily interrupting normal donut delivery. It would appear that the stores did not have adequate caching implemented, although local mirrors were […]
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On methods of entry
January 15th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Hacker culture, Photos, Sweden
Today I felt healthy enough to where the prospect of eating food seemed appealing rather than off-putting for the first time in several days. Let’s hear it for antibiotics, easily humanity’s best totally accidental discovery since fire (I’m actually taking regular old penicillin). I went grocery shopping and discovered that while you can get Campbell’s […]
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The DDR, Surveilance, and Informational Self-Determination
February 3rd, 2009 · 6 Comments · Free software, Germany, Photos, Travel
On Saturday, I went to see the DDR Museum in Berlin (a terrible example of an historical abbreviation striking mental miscues). I had originally been planning on seeing the Deutsches Technikmuseum instead, but it occurred to me that I’ve seen a couple other technical museums on this trip (most notably in Zagreb). While the one […]
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A lot of horror movies start this way…
February 6th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Austria, Photos, Slovenia, Travel
Hitchhiking is kind of a strange thing, it’s basically the only activity I can think of that consists primarily of standing in one place and listening to an mp3 player yet is somehow edgy, cool and exciting.
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Ljubljanica River by night
February 10th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Photos, Slovenia
Shot looking West from the Dragon Bridge toward the Triple Bridge.
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