Oyster Card Cracked
NXP sues to silence Oyster researchers
Chipmaker NXP, formerly Philips Semiconductors, is taking Dutch Radboud University to court on Thursday to prevent researchers publishing their controversial report on the Mifare Classic chip.
Recently researchers from Radboud University in Nijmegen revealed they had cracked and cloned Londons Oyster travel card. Earlier this year the researchers did the same to the Dutch MIFARE travel card. This card is to replace paper tickets on all trams, buses, and trains and is already undergoing trials in Rotterdam.
Oireachtas Website Survey
Damien reminds us about the Oireactas Website Survey. You may not use the (truly awful) website much, but if it was in any way usable, that might change. Please do take a look around and fill in the short, one page survey.
Christian the Lion
This is the sweetest thing you’ll see for a while. Detailed backstory here. Sorry about the cheesy crap on the end, obviously it wasn’t quite cheesy enough for the friendless endless-forwarding dummies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adYbFQFXG0U
Kathy Sinnott on the EU Gravy Train
Thanks Donncha.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnMtc_QJ4-E
Nokia to buy and open source Symbian
I wouldn’t be mad about the Symbian platform, but this is still huge news, it has a huge install base.
Symbian co-founder Nokia announced Monday night that it is buying the 52 percent of the software maker that it doesn’t already own and releasing its mobile operating system under an open source license.
Someone should buy nineties-thinker Tavis McCourt some clue though:
“With the success of Apple’s and RIM’s models, we would have thought traditional handset vendors would develop and maintain similar proprietary OS models,” said Tavis McCourt, a Morgan Keegan analyst. “We view this move as a long-term positive for the smartphone vendors that own their own OS (RIM, Apple and, soon, Palm).”
Ball Girl Makes Incredible Catch
[Ok, maybe not.]
You were probably expecting something completely different, but still…
I’ll resist the temptation to create a Sport category…
It’s bad to laugh, no laughing!
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