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	<link>http://www.brokenhomeboy.co.uk/pierow/blog</link>
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		<title>How to Safely Put an Alphanumeric Passcode on your iPhone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How to put a stronger unlock passcode on your iPhone - replacing the four-digit code that the iPhone uses by default.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brokenhomeboy.co.uk/pierow/blog/2010/03/how-to-safely-put-an-alphanumeric-passcode-on-your-iphone/</link>
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		<title>The Odds of Airborne Terror</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nate Silver uses statistics to breakdown the threat of an airborne terrorist attack.  For example:
&#8220;There were a total of 674 passengers, not counting crew or the terrorists themselves, on the flights on which these incidents occurred. By contrast, there have been 7,015,630,000 passenger enplanements over the past decade. Therefore, the odds of being on given [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brokenhomeboy.co.uk/pierow/blog/2009/12/the-odds-of-airborne-terror/</link>
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		<title>Leaked: Homeland Security&#8217;s Post-Underwear Bomb Airplane Rules</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gizmodo has posted a leaked copy of the TSA's new rules for airplane travel dated December 25, 2009.  It reads, in part:]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brokenhomeboy.co.uk/pierow/blog/2009/12/leaked-homeland-securitys-post-underwear-bomb-airplane-rules/</link>
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		<title>Yahoo, Verizon: Our Spy Capabilities Would ‘Shock’, ‘Confuse’ Consumers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Want to know how much phone companies and internet service providers charge to funnel your private communications or records to U.S. law enforcement and spy agencies?
That’s the question muckraker and Indiana University graduate student Christopher Soghoian asked all agencies within the Department of Justice, under a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed a few [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brokenhomeboy.co.uk/pierow/blog/2009/12/yahoo-verizon-our-spy-capabilities-would-%e2%80%98shock%e2%80%99-%e2%80%98confuse%e2%80%99-consumers/</link>
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		<title>Feds ‘Pinged’ Sprint GPS Data 8 Million Times Over a Year</title>
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Sprint Nextel provided law enforcement agencies with customer location data more than 8 million times between September 2008 and October 2009, according to a company manager who disclosed the statistic at a non-public interception and wiretapping conference in October.
The manager also revealed the existence of a previously undisclosed web portal that Sprint provides law enforcement [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brokenhomeboy.co.uk/pierow/blog/2009/12/feds-%e2%80%98pinged%e2%80%99-sprint-gps-data-8-million-times-over-a-year/</link>
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		<title>How to Crack a &#8220;Master Lock&#8221; Combination Lock</title>
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Wikihow has an article describing a method for reducing the total number of combinations for a Master Lock® combination lock from 64,000 to 80.
&#8220;&#8230;there are 64,000 possible combinations on a standard 40 digit Master Lock. With this method, however, you can quickly narrow that down to 80 combinations, a workable number to try if you’ve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brokenhomeboy.co.uk/pierow/blog/2009/10/how-to-crack-a-master-lock-combination-lock/</link>
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		<title>What Does DHS Know About You?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Philosecurity.org has posted a real copy of an American citizen’s DHS Travel Record retrieved from the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol’s Automated Targeting System (ATS). This was obtained through a FOIA/Privacy Act request and sent in by an anonymous reader.  The document reveals that the DHS is storing the reader’s:

Full credit card number and expiration


 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brokenhomeboy.co.uk/pierow/blog/2009/10/what-does-dhs-know-about-you/</link>
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		<title>SecurityTube &#8211; Watch, Learn and Contribute Computer Security Videos</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Missed a presentation from Defcon or just want to see some exploits in action?  SecurityTube may be just what you&#8217;re looking for.  It&#8217;s a collection of computer security videos ranging from presentations and theory to how-to.
[Link]
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		<link>http://www.brokenhomeboy.co.uk/pierow/blog/2009/09/securitytube-watch-learn-and-contribute-computer-security-videos/</link>
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		<title>Sonik Dynamik Magnetic Card Encoder</title>
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Jaroslaw Lupinski has built a device that will generate magnetic signals to spoof a magnetic stripe reader &#8211; you know, the things that open doors and allow you to pay for your groceries.  Instructables has a write-up on a similar device using an iPod but Jaroslaw&#8217;s device will allow you to change the data on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brokenhomeboy.co.uk/pierow/blog/2009/09/sonik-dynamik-magnetic-card-encoder/</link>
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		<title>Turning the Zipit Z2 Wireless Messenger into a $50 netbook</title>
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Okay, so it&#8217;s only got a 2.8&#8243; screen and that hardly compares to the 10&#8243; screens that most modern netbooks are sporting these days.
Hunter Davis has a video along with step-by-step directions for using OpenZipIt to turn the Zipit Z2A Wireless Messenger into a a netbook with Audio, Mouse, etc.
The Zipit Z2A is available from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brokenhomeboy.co.uk/pierow/blog/2009/09/turning-the-zipit-z2-wireless-messenger-into-a-50-netbook/</link>
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