Comments on: Chapter 1

By: Jan Schejbal

Jan Schejbal — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 01:14:07 +0000

An obvious reference to the Sony BMG copy protection rootkit, which hides every file starting with $sys$ in an attempt to hide its own presence.

By: MsBlairRose

MsBlairRose — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 02:13:35 +0000

Little Brother at Griffin Theatre Company Chicago http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9gvJif3Bds

By: Alex B

Alex B — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:42:25 +0000

This story is a Noodle Incident, a reference to an event that has happened in the past but that no person who was involved in it is willing to give the details of, leaving the audience to fill in the details with their own imaginations. To see what a Noodle Incident might look like to those who were lucky (or unlucky) enough to be there, pay careful attention to chapter 19. (The comment of similar nature in paragraph 78 is in error.)

By: missyka04

missyka04 — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 02:13:07 +0000

Your mother's maiden name is a common security question when creating an online account. It is also an easy question to uncover the answer to. Once a person knows the answer, they can potentially gain access to your accounts that have that question set as the password reminder security question. This article is about a hacker who was easily able to gain access to Twitter's online accounts in July.

By: missyka04

missyka04 — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 01:24:00 +0000

On August 15, 1962, James Joseph Dresnok, a Private First Class in the U.S. Army, defected to North Korea while stationed at the Korean Demilitarized Zone. I wonder if the reference to this specific date was intentional?

By: shesnameless

shesnameless — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 23:50:44 +0000

For a helpful how-to video on surfing the internet anonymously using an onion router, see this cnet link.

By: shesnameless

shesnameless — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 23:36:25 +0000

The US Patent for video-based gait recognition was issued on February 12, 2008 to inventor Ross G. Cutler of Microsoft Research, USA.

By: shesnameless

shesnameless — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 23:24:55 +0000

The names of eight states begin and end with vowels: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Ohio, and Oklahoma.

By: shesnameless

shesnameless — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 23:18:11 +0000

According to Wikipedia, hundreds of local and regional science fiction conventions have sprung up around the world either as one-time or annual events since the first conventions in the late 1930s. At these conventions, fans of science fiction come together with the professional writers, artists, and filmmakers in the genre to discuss its many aspects. Despite science fiction’s popularity, it still has the stigma of being a ‘geek’ genre.

By: shesnameless

shesnameless — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:55:20 +0000

An academic article by Krauss et al. titled Nonverbal Behavior and Nonverbal Communication: What Do Conversational Hand Gestures Tell Us? explains that much of what social psychologists believe about nonverbal behavior originated with Charles Darwin. Darwin proposed the theory that our “tells” are vestiges of serviceable associated habits– behaviors that earlier in our evolutionary history had specific and direct functions. For a species that attacked by biting, baring the teeth was a necessary prelude to an assault; wrinkling the nose reduced the inhalation of foul odors; and so forth.