If you like code breaking, brain teasers or fancy your chances in Hut 8 of Bletchley Park then this years FBI Cryptanalysis puzzle might be for you. There’s even one for the kids.
Update 5/1/09: It’s a disappointingly simple substitution cypher which took us very little time to figure out in bed last night. The simplest keys are the web [...]
Category Archives: Fun
FBI Cryptanalysis Puzzle
Saturday, January 3, 2009
Happy New Year!
Thursday, January 1, 2009
Edit 3/1/09: That’s Arnie, one of our dogs. The eyeballs have strawberry filling.
Déjà-vu International Airport
Thursday, December 25, 2008
I recently spent a of a lot of time waiting in airports. Being tired and jet-lagged in different airports turns the whole thing into a surreal experience where they all blur together into a single Déjà-vu International Airport. It’s made of concrete, has a roof constructed of large white tubular beams, lots of those walk-a-lators, [...]
Real Hackers Use Lunix
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Recently the BBC posted an article about teenage hackers: Alarm raised on teenage hackers.
Every now and again this sort of crap pops up and reminds me of the satirical article Is Your Son a Computer Hacker?.
The article helpfully provides the top ten signs to watch out for including using a computer for more than thirty [...]
Most theft worthy authors
Saturday, October 25, 2008
In Waterstones today we were browsing the Stephen King section to find there were only around five books on display.
Now Stephen King is a pretty prolific author so this is not a good selection. However there was a notice:
So I wandered over to the front desk, intrigued, and asked the lady where the rest of [...]