Tomorrow, from 8am to 8pm EST, the MAKE sites will go dark, joining all of O’Reilly Media, and many other sites, like Wikipedia, Reddit, Boing Boing, Tucows, Twitpic, and more, in protest over the SOPA and PIPA bills now before the House and Senate. Even Google is joining in. They won’t go dark, but they’ll […]
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New media artist Taeyoon Choi visited Europe’s largest IKEA store near Malmo, Sweden, in December, 2011, along with a bag full of motors, microcontrollers, and hardware.
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A man-in-the-middle attack on HDCP-secured video links is demonstrated. The attack is implemented on an embedded Linux platform, with the help of a Spartan-6 FPGA, and is capable of operating real-time on HD video links. It utilizes the HDCP master key to derive the corresponding private keys of the video source and sink through observation and computation upon the exchanged public keys. The man-in-the-middle then genlocks its raster and cipher state to the incoming video stream, enabling it to do pixel by pixel swapping of encrypted data. Since the link does no CRC or hash verification of the data, one is able to forge video using this method.
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Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment – Buddha.
Continue ReadingThis state-of-the-art example of 3D projection mapping has been making the rounds on Facebook. This projection show was done in Kharkov, Ukraine, on the Kharkiv Regional Administration’s building (on 8/24/10), in honor of the city’s birthday and Independence Day.
Continue ReadingYou’ll hear a lot of talk about the “death of the public library” these days. It isn’t simply the perpetual budget crises that many face either. It’s the move to digital literature, and the idea that once there are no more print books (or rather if there are no more print books), the library as an institution will cease to exist.
Continue ReadingThe revolution will be automated! Gone are the days when you’d have to practice drawing big letters legibly with a rattle can in order to get your message across. Thanks to the folks at Graffiti Research Lab France, you need only walk along the perimeter wall with your finger on the button of their spray paint graffiti printer.
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