Jeremiah Grossman has posted a fascinating demonstration for how a website could find out which other websites a particular visitor has viewed. (If you don’t see it: look at “I know where you’ve been” section on the sidebar. Recognize any pages you’ve visited recently?)
The way it works is brilliantly simple. Suppose you want to check […]
The police and the media are claiming that twenty-odd people in the UK were involved in a plot to smuggle household chemicals onto airplanes, mix them in the lavatory to produce triacetone triperoxide (TATP), and blow up the planes over the Atlantic. Well, an article in The Register blows (ha!) that theory out of the […]
The British police arrested 21 people for a plot to blow up ten UK->US flights with liquid explosives. (Naturally, paranoid airport security have now banned nearly all carry-on luggage. Next time a terror plot is discovered, I imagine they will start requiring all passengers to stip naked and get a full cavity search.)
In any case, […]
These events transpired two months ago, but I only heard of them today.
On May 13, 2006, Josh Kelly and Llara Brook — a young white couple from Virginia — went to see the Orioles play in Baltimore. On the way back, they got lost (I don’t blame them, the city has a rather insane street […]