The Toorcon website now has all of the presentation materials posted. I’ve updated all of our Toorcon posts with the appropriate links (the WEP frag attack has code). They’ve added some more photo galleries, too.
Month: September 2005
Google Hacks For Fun And Profit
We’ve all played with Google hacks. Here is a short, quite incomplete list of irreverant uses for our engine of worship. Post your favorite Google hackage in the comments. I, for one, welcome our new Google overlords.
Google cooking, around since 2002 and perhaps even before: simply list the various ingredients in your fridge and your cupboard to google-spit out a recipe
Perl fun with the Google API: $1
PyGoogle for Python fanatics: $2
Being able to Google in your command line: Priceless
A whole book chock full of Google hacks including yummy adwords hacking [pdf]
Craigslist + Google Maps == bliss for apartment hunters
A sobering use of Google Maps: updatable trajectory of hurricane Rita [via BoingBoing and Markie]
When video met Google, DVD Jon wrote a script to use Google’s VLC video player to play non-google-hosted content
Fun for VJ’s and Anit-TV-peeps
A Honeypot for those of you worried about others using malicious Google hacks on your sites
Once again, post your fave Google hacks in the comments.
“Clicker” Hacking
Here’s another IR hack released at Toorcon. Â SurveySays (from Midnight Research Labs) is software that will intercept signals from remotes or “clickers” that universities use for test and quiz taking in class. According to the site, there are over a million of these remotes out there at hundreds of schools (UC Berkeley and SFSU to name a couple around [sith]’s area). SurveySays will display the most commonly given answer by the classroom on the screen and will also issue a trigger after every round. You can send in this answer automatically, for you or for a group of friends =). Have fun!
[thanks sith]
Build Your Own Generator
This generator is built from an old alternator and a 2-stroke gas engine. The site has some suggestions on component mounting and properly sizing the drive pulley. The importance of getting an alternator with a built in voltage regulator is also covered. You could use this to charge a race car battery between rounds or add a power inverter to power AC items. Of course you could build a gas powered blender instead.
[thanks Howard and jon]
Ask Hack-A-Day
You may have heard that MasterCard is rolling out swipeless cards. I was alarmed by the quote: “point to the success of ExxonMobil’s SpeedPass system”. You mean the RFID system that was cracked and TI refused to acknowledge? There has been other RFID spoofing work that has proven that the action of reading the card makes it more insecure. What do you think of this new rollout and what percentage of your body will you be covering in tinfoil (freezer grade, shiny side out)?
Hackaday Links
It looks like the Folding@Home Team Hack-A-Day has broken into the top 800. EOC is now tracking the progress of team members. Great job team! If you want to join up, just follow [BillyTheImpaler]’s great how-to.
On that note: If you’ve got a topic you think other readers would be interested in, feel free to write it up and contribute.
[Ozmotear] has a photoset showing users cheating Digg. Hmm
Robotic Sentry Gun
Reader [aaron rasmussen] and his brother Ezra built this awesome robotic sentry gun. The gun is an airsoft replica of an FN P90 and fires 6mm BBs. Pan and tilt are controlled by two hobby servos using a simple controller. Aaron wrote custom software to watch the usb webcam and track targets. There is a video on the site of it being tested
