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I bought myself a type B after some inspiration from DarkTher4pys Garage Door project and his video showing sky box control over UPnP. After receiving my Pi today and the nightmare of setting up wlan I was surprised how easy this was! My implementation differs to... Read More

The Next Web broke news that users of Mac OSX Mountain Lion could crash any app by typing File:/// into any text field. The same issue doesn’t plague the iPhone or iPad. With that in mind i tried sending an iMessage containing File:/// to my Apple ID. Sure enough the... Read More

When automation goes wrong We live in an increasingly automated world. Anybody who is anybody, and much more besides have email addresses, Twitter account and Facebook profiles. Twitter and Facebook have hit the headlines often, with professionals being scarred by careless... Read More

I had an email today with a question about my blog. I get lots of emails about my site, asking for help or due to page rank the usual flood of spam, but this one stood out because it was a question about a post I’d promised to make and recall doing months ago. Checking on... Read More

The moment I received my new iPad I was in awe. This is the device I’ve dreamed about since seeing the handheld tablets on Start Trek:TNG when I was a kid. As beautiful as the naked iPad is, having upgraded from the iPad 1 I’m very aware of how easy it is to scrape,... Read More

In many ways this is much worse than the LinkedIn and Facebook Plist vulnerability exposed last week. Both social apps exposed plain text OAuth Tokens which enable a large amount of personal information to be snaffled from accounts, and in the case of Facebook, access any website... Read More

Given the number of requests I’m currently recieving re using the keychain following my post regarding the use of plain text credientials in plists I’ve decided to reprint an excellent series of articles from Use Your Loaf which helped me get to grips with Keychain... Read More

1Password, a cross platform passwords management solution  by Agile Bits snatched the crown for the first app developers to publicly test their own iOS app, own up to having, and subsequently fix the plist vulnerability discussed on my April 3rd Post Re Facebook Credential Theft... Read More

[UPDATED] LinkedIn update on 26-4-2012 appears to resolve this vulnerability, though no statement or reference to the vulnerability has been made by LinkedIn. Still, they have fixed it, which is a heck of a lot more than Facebook has done! Further testing on popular social apps... Read More