OddThinking

A blog for odd things and odd thoughts.

Battleship Strategy

I have often considered writing a Battleship-playing AI, but I never have.

Now, I discover, there is a Battleship-playing AI competition, which I don’t have the time (or .NET experience) to enter.

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HAL BBS Backdoors

There was a rumour out on the web out there that HAL BBS wasn’t to be trusted – it had two backdoors built into the software. It was compiled BASIC, so it wasn’t easy to view the source, but I had a bash at finding those backdoors.

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Categories: Based On A True Story,Doubleplus Geek
Tags: bbs, commodore 64, hacking, security

Web Security and ING Direct

Someone is being a fool and not understanding some of the basics of computer security. That person is either (a) the head of security at ING Direct or (b) it is me.

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Shuffling and Ownage

In which Jeff Atwood dismisses my experience as “naïve”…

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Categories: Doubleplus Geek,Insufficiently Advanced Technology,S/W Dev
Tags: cards, Coding Horror, randomness, security, shuffling

Password Security and Fish: Best Practice

Julian: “I’ve had an idea. I am going to name my next pet `v7qo!rt’, so then I can use my pet’s name as a password, and yet still be secure.”

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Editing Own Comments

When one of my readers asked for the ability to edit comments in WordPress, I took that request seriously, and decided to find the solution.

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