• The Invasion of Time « Adventures with the Wife in Space
  Wife in Space does The Invasion of Time! Watch in horror as comments go from "Scary stuff. The script is excellent. I like the way they use the dialogue to cut between these scenes. It’s very stylish. I’m definitely intrigued." to "Vardan: We are not ready yet. Sue: No, we are still in the ( Read more... )

• [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 ( Read more... )

JO: Don't kill the Doctor, he's fantastic! Kill me instead!
AZAL: Good point. I was just realizing how stupid it would be to kill the Doctor. (KILLS JO).
DOCTOR: Tut tut.
AZAL: I'm the last of my kind, you know.
DOCTOR: Really?

TIME LOARDS: We shall do something bad to you, Doctor. Put you on the moon or something. In velvet ( Read more... )

DALEKS: We shall invent a time machine to destruct time and we shall travel through time and wherever we find spare time or time that is not full of DALEKS we shall destruct it ( Read more... )

SARAH: You mustn't destroy the Daleks, Doctor! They're just like you! I learned by studying you being you ( Read more... )

GENERAL CHELLAK: We have caught the spy and are going to execute him ( Read more... )

A TIME LORD: The Doctor has assassinated the President!
ALL OTHER TIME LORDS: But he can't have done that, he's fantastic!
A TIME LORD: It must have been the Master, then!
THE MASTER: Curses!

Well, that was one long extended pre-credit sequence. Since there hasn't yet been a Russell T Davies-written extended-length episode that's been worth the extra minutes, I'm apprehensive for next week too. But when it's all over someone will probably do a great 45-minute edit of it.

From nwhyte: Doctor Who monthly's latest issue publishes the results of a reader poll of all 200 Doctor Who stories to date, ranked in order of popularity. List stories which you think should be ranked much higher in blue and stories that you think should be ranked much lower in red, for whatever definition of "much" you feel happy with. Put the ones you ( Read more... )