Steven Osborn
"I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code".

Archive for the ‘Web’ Category

Coolest hardware authentication device ever from Yubico.

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

I'm not typically a big fan of hardware tokens, but I discovered a neat little device at IIW that takes the cake when it comes to hardware based authentication. The YubiCard is a incredibly small device; requires no drivers at all and doesn't need a LCD screen. ...

Google Hax0rs

Sunday, November 25th, 2007

I noticed this interesting entry in my server's access log today. I certainly have phpMyAdmin running at that location, but you can't get the process list unless you login. 66.249.70.89 xxxxxxxxx.com - [21/Nov/2007:13:43:18 -0800] "GET /MyAdmin/server_processlist.php?lang=en-utf-8&convcharset=iso-8859-1&collation_connection=utf8_unicode_ci&token=a1bb5490499a10bb493edc160625e33b&kill=49481 HTTP/1.1" 404 345 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)" You can do two things at ...

Yay, I’m a Anti-Phising Champion

Thursday, November 15th, 2007

I got an invitation to take the Paypal Anti-Phishing challenge. It's all of 5 questions long, but it's a neat way to educate user's about phising.

Internet Identity Workshop

Thursday, November 15th, 2007

I have the privilege of attending this years Internet Identity Workshop in Mountain View. I'll be hanging out there Dec 3-5. I'll try to get some pics and things to post on my blog along with an overview of the event.  

Week of JS hacks

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

This week seems to have been filled with ridiculous Javascript hacks. I came up with this one. I'm sure you can figure out what it does. function send_mail(body,subject) { var mailwin = window.open("mailto:admin@example.com?subject=" + subject + "&body=" + body); mailwin.close(); } I have to ...

Virtual Private Server Drama

Wednesday, October 10th, 2007

I was forced to drop VPSLink after it took them more than 12 hours to not restore my server image. I finally settled on Quantact and I'm far more pleased with the performace and my overall experience with their service. I just hope they work out for the ...

Chore Wars - I totally pwned the laundry

Friday, July 27th, 2007

I'm totally obsessed with Chore Wars I found out about it from Penny Arcade basically you do quest IRL and get Exp and Gold! I have to admit I've been more interested in ways to cheat than actually doing the laundry. We started a CW group at work ...