Posts with keyword: hacking

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Generation C: Matt Webb

Thu Mar 29 10:30:00 2007

I didn't capture this whole talk, but here's what appealed to me most. Matt describes what he calls "Gen C" using a collection of C words: Communities, connected socially and electronically, creative, controlling, complex. He says that as a "paid up member of Gen C, I want to help design my products." I think that's a key point that product manufacturers are missing. Many people have a desire to tinker with things and will if you give them the opportunity. Just as important: the product shouldn't require that you tinker with it to make it work. Things like Flickr
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Hacking Organizations: Chad Dickerson

Wed Mar 28 13:00:00 2007

Chad Dickerson, who I've known since he was the CTO at InfoWorld, and runs the Yahoo! Developer Network, is giving a talk about how to hack an organization. When Chad put together the Yahoo! Hack day, he had to hack everything from the way brand managers thought about brand to talking the groundskeepers into letting people camp on the lawn and turning off the sprinkler system.
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More Diebold Hacking Demonstrations

Mon Dec 19 13:54:00 2005

The Miami Herald has an article on some recent demonstrations that aimed to show Florida officials how easy it would be to hack into electronic voting machines and change the outcome of the election. (They've also got some really annoying Javascript popups that mess up the page.) BlackBox hired Herbert Thompson, a computer-science professor and strategist at Security Innovation, which tests software for companies such as Google and Microsoft. Thompson couldn't hack into the system from the outside. So Sancho gave him access to the central machine that tabulates votes and to the last school election at Leon County
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