DocBugIntelligence, media technologies, intellectual property, and the occasional politicsWhy are secret URLs "security through obscurity"- July 22, 2008 Yesterday's InformationWeek had an article about how cellphone pictures sent via MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) by customers of U.K. mobile network Operator O2 are winding up available via Google search pages. The article, titled Picture Leak: O2's Security Through Obscurity Can't Stop Google, explains that O2 provides a fallback for customers who try to send photos from their cellphone to cellphones that don't support MMS, namely they post the photos online and then send the recipient a...http://docbug.com/blog/archives/000780.html Magnetic wall- July 21, 2008 This weekend’s project was to paint the dining room wall and bedroom doors with magnetic paint (paint with an iron-dust mix-in). Actually, this was my wife's project while I fixed the bathroom sink — but that project was much less interesting to blog about. The dining room is shaping up to hold all the various birth & wedding announcements, plus magnetic poetry and probably some random wall games. The bedroom doors will be more personal expressions, and right now the guest room has..http://docbug.com/blog/archives/000779.html 52-card Psycho- July 15, 2008 There are exactly 52 playing cards in a standard deck. There are also exactly 52 shots in the famous shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's movie Psycho. From this amazing coincidence comes 52 Card Psycho, a new augmented-reality experimental film piece my brother recently designed in collaboration with the Future Cinema Lab at York University: 52 Card Psycho is an installation-based investigation into cinematic structures and interactive cinema viewership; the concept is simple: a deck of 52...http://docbug.com/blog/archives/000778.html |