Archive for February 2008

A blast of cold air compromises national security

It seems that researchers at Princeton have discovered you can hack into an encrypted hard drive by blasting the computer’s RAM with cold air. It seems that memory which has been treated with some cold air will retain data even after the power is removed from it.

In case you’re not familiar with RAM it is [...]

Who wants to buy a blog? (and the elections)

Before I launch into my diatribe about the US election just wanted to let everyone know I am considering selling this blog. No, I don’t expect to get rich from it so the asking price if I do sell it will be normal for what it is. Somehow I’ve managed to get myself a Page [...]

The lonely side of the blog

I had almost forgotten how cold and lonely it could be waking up to an empty blog. Recently I’ve been reminded how dreary it can be as I’ve been working on my blog about pet snakes. With this blog I get a couple of hundred people visiting on average per day. It sits at a [...]