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Friday, April 30, 2010

Ethical hacking - a new age profession


Students from various engineering colleges tasted the art of getting into secure buildings, detecting loopholes, decrypting passwords etc, during a workshop on ethical hacking conducted by eminent hackers at MNIT campus on the first day of three-day fest, NEURON-09. Aditya Chopra, a Delhi-based Oracle-certified ethical hacker took a session on various ways to secure your system from being hacked. This tech-buff drew the attention of students to the growing job opportunities for ethical hackers in the corporate world. "Private companies and government establishments have started involving hackers to secure their database from potential theft," said Chopra. He added that ethical hacking is one of the most rewarding new age professions.

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Friday, April 23, 2010

PasswordCard Hides Mentally Encrypted Passwords in Your Wallet

PasswordCard Hides Mentally Encrypted Passwords in Your Wallet
via Lifehacker by Kevin Purdy

You want to use secure passwords, but you can't remember random numbers and letters. You'd also like a fail-safe plan, in case your computer password system goes bad. PasswordCard provides the best of both worlds, offering strong passwords with a wallet-based backup. More »

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Circuit Diagram

Circuit Diagram
via xkcd.com on 4/20/10

I just caught myself idly trying to work out what that resistor mass would actually be, and realized I had self-nerd-sniped.
 

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Sunday, April 18, 2010

Russia proposes nuclear spaceship

Russia proposes nuclear spaceship

Russia should build a new spaceship with a nuclear engine, the country's space chief has proposed, promising that it would give Russia an edge in the space race. Skip related content President Dmitry Medvedev hailed the plan and ordered the Cabinet to find the money for it, but environmentalists expressed concern. Federal Space Agency chief Anatoly Perminov told a government meeting that the preliminary design could be ready by 2012, but it would then take nine more years and 17 billion rubles (£353 million) to build the ship. "The implementation of this project will allow us to reach a new technological level surpassing foreign developments," Perminov told a meeting on communications and space technologies. "It's a very serious project," added Medvedev, who chaired the meeting. "We need to find the money."

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