SMS Spam is good

Spam is usually bad; ‘usually’ because it can be used for fighting crime. Confused? Here’s a novel way in which SMS spam was used to identify a criminal’s location and catch him. It’s the stuff movies are made of So the next time you curse your service provider for yet another SMS to download a [...]

Orkut and a Worm

So its not often that my computer is actually infected by a Worm (or Virus). But then when I got an email from an old friend about scrapping when I hadn’t done so, I was surprised. A quick and thorough scan of my PC revealed nothing. Now I faintly remembered receiving 2 scraps (which obviously [...]

One less thing to worry…

From my Computer Graphics TA All, Because of good performance in the course so far, you are exempted from taking the finals and will still get an A in the course. (Of course, you are welcome to take the exam if you enjoy finals). Sincerely, Sid. Woo hoo!

Yahoo India SMS

At first when I saw this my reaction was ‘huh’ (can they afford to do this?). Then it was ‘wow’ it would be cool if they did that. Finally when I found yesterday that my account had been upgraded to their RC (Release Candidate version), I couldn’t help but try sending an SMS and guess [...]

Look what I found!

OK, so in the last post I talked about Atlanta being a city where people travel in cars. But day before while going to college, I saw this… Scooters! Hmmm, so they do exist in this part of the world. The next thing I wanted to know was the name of the company who made [...]

Where people don’t walk, but drive…

I have been wanting to write a post after coming to US but hadn’t got the time to do that. Now that I am in the middle of the semester, I finally got the urge to write about it. partly because there is this Labo( u )r day weekend, when I have almost nothing to [...]

Au Revoir, Microsoft EPG

Last year, I arrived in Hyderabad to work for Microsoft, without even knowing what group I would be working for. I was assigned to the Education Products Group and I had no inkling about what I would be working on. Thus was my demeanour when I came here. Now after having spent a year here, [...]

AOL MyeAddress, completely non-functional; Tech support, completely incompetent

I have been an avid fan of new services offered by companies, to compare different ones and find the best to use. So for my domain I have been using Google Apps for e-mail and it has been working flawlessly. Needless to say I have been very happy with them (kudos!). Support was quite non-existent [...]

Inspecting Web Interfaces

(Continued from Secure Web Interfaces) OK, I had a tremendous urge to call this post “Hacking Web Interfaces”. But due to some uneducated folks who believe hacking is a bad word, I think I will stick to its euphemism. The most direct way to feed random data to a web-service is in a raw format. [...]

Secure Web Interfaces

On the Internet, security is overrated. Every third site you visit talks about it. But still, not many sites take steps to implement it. This has been the complaint of people all these years and is still true today. Unless it is a site that is dealing with financial transactions, most interfaces provided by these sites [...]

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