Tag: wired

  • Breaking DNS and Putting it Together Again (ish)

    Last Sunday I read an article in Wired Magazine about Dan Kaminsky who had discovered a flaw with one of the basic fundamentals of the Internet, the Domain Name System. The experts watched as Kaminsky opened his laptop and connected the overhead projector. He had created a “weaponized” version of his attack on this vulnerability to demonstrate its power.…

  • Real Violence and Video Games

    Wired Blogs: Games | Gaming, Real Violence Trends Tracked, Charted It’s easy to claim that gaming violence has no correlation with real world violence, but those arguments are a bit hollow if you can’t provide data to corroborate; or even better, a fancy line graph. The graph makes no direct claims towards a relationship between…