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The Five Coolest Hacks of 2007

The Five Coolest Hacks of 2007

Nothing was sacred – not cars, not truckers, not even the stock exchange. Hackers are creative folk, for sure. But some researchers are more imaginative and crafty than others. We're talking the kind of guys who aren't content with finding the next bug in Windows or a Cisco router. Instead, they go after the everyday things we take for [...]

HOWTO: Use md5sum to Verify Data Integrity

HOWTO: Use md5sum to Verify Data Integrity

First of all, what’s a hash? A hash is the output of a one-way, reproducible function for creating a small fingerprint from a chunk of data. For example, when the popular hash function MD5 is given the word “cat”, it produces the following output every time: 54b8617eca0e54c7d3c8e6732c6b687a If “cat” is changed [...]

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