About the Author
Cyrus Farivar
سیروس فریور
English: [suh-ROOS FAR-ih-var]
Persian: [see-ROOS-eh fàr-ee-VÀR]
Freelance Technology Journalist
Freelance Radio Reporter/Producer
Author, "The Internet of Elsewhere"
cfarivar [at] cfarivar [dot] org
Current location: Oakland, CATwitter
Hackery Archive
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Comodohacker speaks
Posted on March 30, 2011 | No CommentsI wrote an article about the Comodo hack for Deutsche Welle here. The following is an introduction to the full interview (further below) with Comodohacker. On March 15, 2011, a major Internet-security company, Comodo, said that it sustained a major security breach, by allowing nine... -
Creating a new SF Bay Area Farmer’s Market map
Posted on September 15, 2009 | 3 CommentsSo I have a set of data in a Google Docs spreadsheet of SF Bay Area Farmer’s Markets. Each market has data for the following columns: Day, County, Location, Hours, Months, Intersection, City, State, ZIP, Phone, URL. There are entries for over 100 markets. What... -
Scott Adams hacks his own brain, restores speech
Posted on October 25, 2006 | 1 CommentApparently for the last 18 months Scott Adams has been suffering from Spasmodic Dysphonia, a disease that affects the larynx, making ordinary speech extremely difficult. Somehow, he figured out how to hack his own brain to figure out how to speak again: My theory was... -
Google Earth Hack
Posted on June 30, 2005 | 2 CommentsFor those of you who’ve downloaded Google Earth, the guy at the demo booth showed me a minor easter egg in it. When you’re in the view mode, press CTRL-G, and you’ll enter a flight simulator mode. It’s pretty sweet.
