Monthly Archives: August 2009

Twitter Exploit Still Not Fixed

Sigh. I wrote another article on Dave Naylor’s blog about the XSS exploit I found yesterday. It seems they’ve made a pretty amateurish attempt to fix the issue, completely missing the massive problem staring them in the face. It seems to be picking up a bit more traction today – I’ve even been quoted by [...]

Taking down Twitter

I had the opportunity (probably) to take down Twitter today. Or at least stir up a whole lot of trouble. I really can’t believe I’m the first person to think of it, but I’m pretty sure it would have worked! Because I’m a nice guy – and not at all grudgingly, honest – we’re holding [...]

Xbox 360 Battery Pack Disassembled

I’ve had an official Xbox 360 ‘Play & Charge’ kit for a year or so now, and the battery life has slowly but surely dropped to nothing over that time. I decided to take it to pieces to see if I could figure out what was up with it. As you can see from the [...]

3000 Days

Nothing quite like a look at the Wayback Machine to remind me that this page – well, domain name – has been running for over eight years now. There’s really not a lot to show for it! So I thought it was about time to get some content on here again. Stay tuned for irrelevant [...]