Archive 9. October 2011

Bundestrojaner: The Privates behind the Bundestrojaner | Politics - Frankfurter Rundschau. Jaja, but the BKA has already denied it. It will certainly be funny, especially because even the "normal" media have picked up on this - and even if Merkel and Co. ignore blogs and the like, something like the FAZ really hurts them when they get it read to them by their press sorters.

I usually ignore Techcrunch, but they have this story first (at least I haven't seen it anywhere else):

Now, some company called VS Technologies is suing Twitter, alleging that it infringes on a patent of theirs, entitled “Method and system for creating an interactive virtual community of famous people”. For real? For real.

via Twitter Gets Sued For Letting Famous People Interact Online | TechCrunch.

SuperCollider » About. This is what is used as a basis under the previous project. SuperCollider has its own programming language, so it can also be used for live coding and similar purposes.

Home // Overtone. I'm always excited about sound makers - this is a tool for interactive sound programming and live coding and instrument building (of course digital), and all of it written in Clojure. Maybe for one or the other a reason to take a closer look at Clojure.

Henri Cartier-Bresson | Adam Marelli Photo. An interesting article that examines the geometric basis of HCB photos and thereby makes one aspect of HCB's photography more understandable.

Chaos Computer Club: The German state trojan has been cracked - Current - FAZ. I'm linking to the FAZ. And then to an article where the FAZ uses the CCC as an expert source. But such things happen when your own executive wants to screw over the citizens and just builds constitutionally illegal trojans that are supposed to spy on the citizens. And in the process does things like implementing arbitrarily reloadable (and thus unchecked) code - and then has the whole thing checked for security by verifying an IP address to a redirect server in the USA. Which is just great again. Oh, and you can also deposit data on the computers of the suspects with the software. And of course without any control. No investigator would do that, that would be illegal. About as illegal as the whole trojan. And of course we trust the people who come up with such things, don't we?