Occasionally when I have too much time on my hands I let Helen talk me into making mashups. I’m not particularly good at audio editing and so usually they don’t work out. This evening however I’m fairly happy with the results, I can certainly see somebody with better audio editing skills making a very good [...]
We’ve all heard about there being money to be made in the underbelly of the internet, about all the money people are making through harvesting emails, sending out spam and link building but most of us aren’t aware of numbers and so I’ve spent the past week or two investigating blackhat marketing techniques and some [...]
There has been much discussion recently about whether ID cards have or haven’t been hacked. Adam Laurie claims to have copied an ID card, edited the data, and then written the modified data to a new card. The government responded with “We are satisfied the personal data on the chip cannot be changed or modified [...]
We required a method of using sms to activate users on our new site so that we can be sure that people aren’t creating duplicate accounts and are from the UK. We have now come up with two methods for achieving this, both of which are documented below. It took a long time [...]