Filed under: newsFriend of Hack-A-Day, [Dan Kaminsky], started off last weekend right by putting Rick Astley everywhere on the internet. ISPs routinely hijack mistyped URLs and [Dan] showed that an attacker could inject code into any unresolved subdomain, essentially taking over every site the ISP's customer tried to reach. I doubt many companies would be happy to know their websites were being misrepresented.The week wasn't going so well for another friend of ours as he found himself back in court for allegedly inventing the entire satellite piracy industry.BoingBoing TV featured the Graffiti Research Lab this week as they prepare for the New York premier of GRL: The Complete First Season. GRL encourages you to pick up your copy today... before they've even started selling it.While you're over at The Pirate Bay you might as well ask them where to get the leaked copy of Grand Theft Auto IV... or you could just wait a few days and buy it like a normal person. We do recommend you bide your time by checking out the GTA:IV leaked gameplay videos.Don Hodges has been carefully analyzing an patching old arcade games to fix their kill screens. His latest fix was Ms. Pac Man, but he's fixed Pac Man and Donkey Kong previously. [via Waxy]We know most people prefer Rock Band to Guitar Hero, but has it really gotten so bad that only robots play it now? Just this week alone we saw both AutoGuitarHero and Slashbot [via Hacked Gadgets]. Of course, doing that one useful thing makes them completely ineligible for Japan's Annual Stupid Robot Contest [via Neatorama].Finally, for all of you that have trouble interacting with other organisms, here's An Engineer's Guide to Cats.Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
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