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Has it been that long?

Published on May 22, 2007 4 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , . Post made from or about Home .

Wow, so I haven’t written in just over four months – what HAVE I been doing since January? Well, for one, I’m now at the opposite end of my final semester. I know officially have 6000 words to write, and I graduate from my combined Science / Information Systems degrees.

I’m still no closer to figuring out what I want to do next semester, short of finding more and more courses that I might be interested in. I’m currently looking at possibly doing one or more of:

But then again, there’s still heaps more options. I know I want to get into I.T. security, but there seem to be so many specialist areas, and since I’ve only touched on security before (one subject a year or so ago), how am I supposed to know which area to go into?

One other thing that’s happened over the semester, is that I’ve been studying a lot of history and philosophy of science subjects, and I’ve got a taste for that, too. I’ve always enjoyed contemplating the nature of the god and the universe, but some of the philosophy this semester has really got me thinking. As such, I’ve decided to finally start a pet-project that I’ve spent the last few years thinking about, but (like many things), hadn’t quite got around to doing – I now have a blog about religion, science, philosophy and spirituality. I’ve started by re-working and posting an essay I wrote last year at uni about resolving evolution with a belief in god, and I’ve been working on a few more posts which will appear over the next few weeks. While it’s definitely not for everyone, if you’re interested, please take a look over at 20gramSoul.com – and if you’re wondering about the name, check out the about page.

I hope everyone is well, and no doubt I’ll write again soon, as it’s coming up to the end of semester (and we all know that time I should be studying becomes time I write on my website)…

If an 11-year-old can do it…

Published on August 28, 2006 0 Comments Tags: , , , , . Post made from or about Home .

I’d never heard of this before today, and I’m guessing not many other people (who don’t read the same junk online that I do) haven’t either. Apparently, there’s a lock “picking” technique called “key bumping”, which allows almost any modern lock to be opened by someone with almost no experience (an 11 year old girl managed to open a lock in seconds without any previous knowledge) and a few simple tools (obtainable at any hardware shop).

It’s amazing how much stuff is available online about key-bumping, and I can’t believe it hasn’t been a major problem (or at least, we haven’t heard of it) in Australia yet.

Of course, one of the major problems with this is that it leaves no evidence of a break in – any insurance company you know of that would pay up under these circumstances?

Below are a couple of short videos demonstrating key bumping. Firstly, a quick “howto” guide on key bumping:

And another one (in Dutch – with subtitles) explaining some of the theory and repercussions of this technique, and what the “pros” (professional locksmiths/lock pickers) think of the technique.

anyone else scared?