Well, not completely…

During the last days I’ve been viewing some of the talks of 25C3 which are streamed live via the net. Very entertaining and informative. About an hour ago in a talk called “Making the theoretical possible” an international group of security researchers showed that the MD5 weakness which is known since a few years can be used to create a rogue certificate authority certificate which allows to sign arbitrary certificates which are accepted by all major web browsers.

That means that even if your web-browser shows that the connection to www.yourbank.com is encrypted and the SSL-certificate is valid, it’s still possible that a man in the middle reads or modifies the communication between your browser and your bank.

On one hand this was bound...

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The Antikythera mechanism, is an ancient mechanical calculator (also described as the first known mechanical computer) designed to calculate astronomical positions. It was discovered in the Antikythera wreck off the Greek island of Antikythera, between Kythera and Crete, in 1901. Subsequent investigation, particularly in 2006, dated it to about 150–100 BC; and hypothesised that it was on board a ship that sank en route from the Greek island of Rhodes to Rome. Technological artifacts of similar complexity did not reappear until a thousand years later.

I’m not that much into computer games, but this one I’ll probably buy:

http://www.telltalegames.com/wallaceandgromit

Today is my last work day before Christmas vacation. Therefore it’s the right moment to wish you merry Christmas and a successful new year.

It is nearly weekend (just a few moments from now) and it is definitely time for the weekend fun ;-)

It’s Friday, the week is almost over and here’s something funny for the weekend.