I was pointed to the Cyber Security Challenge earlier this week, and eventually stumbled upon the cipher they offer as an “immediate opportunity to test your skills”. Despite not really understanding the point of the exercise or how it related to the other competitions mentioned, I was pleased to see that the “ciphertext” was right [...]

I watched Google’s webcast yesterday where they announced a few details of their new Chrome OS. As it’s open source, I downloaded it and built it on an Ubuntu system – which seems to be their preferred platform. The build went reasonably smoothly, but there’s not very much to see yet really. As you’d probably [...]