In December I received an EMV card from my bank in South Africa. I won't mention who they are as this isn't specific to them. In general it has annoyed me, as now I have to type in a PIN, which often necessitates me moving my lazy ass from the table to the waiters pay area and standing around while the steam punk mechanics work themselves out. And, I am *more* liable for fraud on my account.
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I'm really enjoying the hype around the firewire hacks, originally presented by Maximillian Dornseif in 2004, breathed new life in 2006 by Adam Boileau and now re-hyping in 2008 thanks to Adam releasing the last bit of scripts to unlock a Windows machine (illegally!, gosh). I think Adam sums this up quite nicely:
Yes, it's a FEATURE, not a bug. It's the Fire in Firewire. Yes, I know this, Microsoft know this. The OHCI-1394 spec knows this. People with firewire ports generally don[']t.
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