Keith Shaw’s Cool Tools Alert
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Opening office doors for $10
Cool Tools At Defcon, a hacker shows how a $10 chip called the Gecko can be used to open almost any card-protected office door.
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WirelessPhiladelphia? Most of the time
I spent a couple of days last week in Philadelphia — not because I had a hankering for cheese steak (although it helped that I could get some while I was down there), but rather to try and see whether the new city-wide Wi-Fi rollout really was all it was cracked up to be.
* LATEST TWISTED PAIR PODCAST:
Philadelphia Wi-Fi Freedom
Jason and Keith discuss new flaws for Mozilla’s Firefox, the $50 billion government contract for IBM and AT&T, and figure out why Elton John might not want to shut down the Internet.
* LATEST COOL TOOL BLOG:
A one-in-a-quintillion bottle cap?
Coke has been running is My Coke Rewards program for more than a year now, offering soda drinkers the chance to earn “rewards” for just being loyal soda drinkers. Since I’m on a 2-3 Diet Coke-a-day habit, I’ve been saving my bottle caps and earning reward points (usually 3 points per bottle cap).
* LATEST FROM THE VIDEO LIBRARY:
Defcon nabs undercover TV reporter
Attendees at the Defcon hacker convention in Las Vegas spot an undercover Dateline NBC producer and escort her away from the facility.
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