The subprime primer
The joy of hindsight: the sub-prime catastrophe in a few nutshells [smallcool].
Oyster cracked
Oyster (and others) cracked [smallcool] — another lovely example of “don’t invent your own crypto algorithm”, it seems.
… We argue that this is a gross over-estimate and present an attack that recovers secret keys within minutes on a typical desktop PC or within seconds on an FPGA. Our attack exploits statistical weaknesses of the cipher.
Food fight
Food fight [rhodri].
Food Fight is an abridged history of war, from World War II to present day, told through the foods of the countries in conflict. Watch as traditional comestibles slug it out for world domination in this chronologically re-enacted smorgasbord of aggression.
Awe. Some.