Interesting Links for 04-07-2012

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• [cryptography] Key extraction from tokens (RSA SecurID, etc) via padding attacks on PKCS#1v1.5
  This is a great description of the attack on RSA tokens that's going to be presented at Crypto. It turns out that PKCS#1 padding is so broken that you can use its flaws to decrypt any message, even messages that weren't encrypted using PKCS#1 in the first place.
  (tags: pkcs#1 rsa cryptography ww-crypto )
• Underworld « Adventures with the Wife in Space
  Wife In Space tackles Underworld. Best line: "They should have called it Underpants."
  (tags: doctor who )
• Fed's Williams confirms that the central bank could easily boost demand
  Matt Yglesias link of the day "“In a world where the Fed pays interest on bank reserves, traditional theories that tell of a mechanical link between reserves, money supply, and, ultimately, inflation are no longer valid,” Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco President John Williams said."
  (tags: yglesias economics finance )
• A tempest in my soul: A son's secret brings a Southern Baptist minister to his knees | timesfreepress.com
  "He carefully reads the red letters in the Word, the phrases Jesus spoke. Books like Leviticus, he skims. Leviticus, with its hard words about abominations and detestable sin, just doesn't speak to him anymore."
  (tags: via:andrewsullivan gay religion )
• Story Structure 104: The Juicy Details - Channel 101 Wiki
  Dan Harmon, story genius, on story. The emotional force he manages to bring to the story of the guy changing his tyre in the rain (there are no twists, you now know the whole story) is amazing. Also, "Everyone thinks the Matrix was successful because of new, American special effects combined with old Hong Kong bootleg style. Those things didn't hurt, but for an example of how well they deliver on their own, watch the fucking sequel."
  (tags: via:daringfireball dan-harmon writing )
• Windows Phone 7 was doomed by design, Microsoft admits | CNET UK
  No need to read the whole thing, it's very long. Bottom line: none of the Lumia series to date will run Windows Phone 8, and no apps will be forward-compatible. WP8 is out in the autumn, so that seems to be four months of basically zero sales for Nokia with its current WP7 lineup. Thanks, Microsoft! says Nokia. I played with a Lumia back in January and it was very slick, but if I'd got one I would be very cross now: there'll be no development for the platform and I'd be stuck with it for another twenty months. Best line of the article, from a MSFT marketing guy: "Even if you look at Android's marketing, it's kind of the phone for people who think it would be cool to turn into a robot."
  (tags: ww-crypto mobile )
• Nokia chairman: there is a Windows Phone back-up plan - Rethink Wireless
  The backup plan is: wait until December, when it's very dark in Finland, and then sneak out of the building.
  (tags: ww-crypto mobile )
• U.S. Department of Transportation Issues Request for Information Regarding Nomadic Data Collection Devices
  If Connected Vehicle comes through, there will be a lot of data collection going on, officially sanctioned or not. Really important to manage the privacy implications properly.
  (tags: ww-crypto )
• http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/6474/
  When you gaze into the eye of a giant octopus, don't underestimate what's going on inside that big, squishy head.
  (tags: from facebook )
• http://parislemon.com/post/12263286304/faith-no-more
  Faith No More My sources are very good. Unfortunately, they apparently do not have very good taste. As I noted a couple days ago, Google was about to launch a native Gmail app for iOS. It came this...
  (tags: from facebook )
• ww-crypto Delicious tag to Evernote
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• Bin Laden realized the truth: Terrorism doesn't work - baltimoresun.com
  (tags: news terrorism )

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