Victim of the Brain is a 1988 film by Dutch director Piet Hoenderdos, loosely based on The Mind’s I, a compilation of texts and stories on the philosophy of mind and self, co-edited by Douglas Hofstadter and Daniel C. Dennett. The film weaves interviews with Hofstadter with adaptations of several works in the book: Dennett’s Where am I?, The Soul of the Mark III Beast by Terrel Miedaner, and also the short story The Seventh Sally by Stanisław Lem. The film was shown several times on television in the Netherlands in the late eighties. (Wikipedia)
Interview with the 2 guys that introduced “Monkeyfist”, a tool that automates the process of doing cross-site request forgeries (via).
The guys who talked last year about hacking MySpace are back. They’ve got a new tool that automates the hacking of user-generate content across a bunch of sites. Listen to these security researchers talk about the implications of unsafe Web 2.0 security.
Really long (almost 2 hours) presentation – but given my current job, this is a must-see :-0
Recorded at the 8th www.ToorCon.org Information Security Conference, Sept 30th and Aug 1st, 2006 in San Diego, California. Content produced by www.MediaArchives.com — PRIVACY IS DEAD – GET OVER IT, with Steven Rambam. This talk will include numerous examples of actual data and investigative online resources and databases, and will include an in-depth demonstration of an actual online investigation done on a volunteer subject. (The subject is Rick Dakan, a noted author, who will be present.) (From CNN: “…Rambam was scheduled to discuss how he dug up — in just over four hours of searching private and public databases — more than 500 pages worth of data on Rick Dakan, who was attending the conference and had agreed to participate in the project. “All I had given him was my e-mail and name,” Dakan said. “He knew everywhere I’d lived, every car I had driven, and even someone else in Alabama who was using my Social Security number since 1983.Emphasis will be placed on discussing the “digital footprints” that we all leave in our daily lives, and how it is now possible for an investigator (or government Agent) to determine a person’s likes and dislikes, religion, political beliefs, sexual orientation, habits, hobbies, friends, family, finances, health and even the person’s actual physical whereabouts at any given moment, solely by the use of online data and related activity
A number of emerging technologies will soon collectively enable an open social web in which users control their information and it can flow between multiple sites and services. OpenID, OAuth, microformats, OpenSocial, the Social Graph API, friends-list portability, and more will be discussed, as well as a coherent vision for how the pieces fit together and how developers can start taking advantage of them now.
Renowned linguist Steven Pinker speaks at Google’s Mountain View, CA, headquarters about his book “The Stuff of Thought.” This event took place on September 24, 2007, as part of the Authors@Google series. For more information about Steven Pinker, please visit http://pinker.wjh.harvard.edu/books/stuff/index.html
the longest, most comprehensive documentary about the history of computing ever produced… a whirlwind tour of computing before the Web, with brilliant archival footage and interviews with key players — several of whom passed away since the filming. Jointly produced by WGBH Boston and the BBC, it originally aired in the UK as The Dream Machine before its U.S. premiere in January 1992.