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D’oh! Someone should tell people responsible for security in major sporting venues that effective security begins at home. Just four months after the US Super Bowl scrambled to change its wireless credentials after CBS broadcast video which captured an SSID and password, now Brazil have performed a similar bungle with the World Cup security centre’s WiFi credentials.
Local news outlet Correio Braziliense received permission to attend the security centre in order to take a picture of head of international cooperation, Luiz Cravo Dorea, standing in the multi-million dollar security centre, to be included in an article later published by the paper. The centre is used to watch video feeds from surveillance cameras around the event’s venues. Unfortunately the picture revealed more than the operating firm, Risco of Israel, bargained for. In the background of the pic, an interactive whiteboard gives details of the system; and on the quadrant closest to the camera; it is possible to read the SSID “WORLD CUP” and password “b5a2112014”, leet speak for Brazil 2014.
The picture subsequently hit Twitter, where it received over 2,300 retweets. So that’s everyone who still supports England after our disastrous World Cup performance this year, then…
Coming upto the stations 7th b’day, we’ve been doing some upgrades in the back room (well, Crimsonshade has) and we’re proud to announce our new high quality stream!
From today, if you tune in through the website, nothing changes, you get our typical low quality (awful sounding) stream.
However, if you click the tune in buttons on the website to download the new updated file, you’ll get the brand new, high quality stream.
Ok, it’s not often we post fan made stuff (we really should do more, making a note for later), but when a project is actually OK’d by Games Workshop (who make Nintendo look easy going on Copyright stuff), I sit up and take note…
Check THIS out:
Ok, this looks epic, but what REALLY stands out is that this was rendered in Real Time, which is a big deal if you make videos
Still no release date for this, but looking THIS cool, I think it’s worth the wait!
NASA Scientists have released 3D renderings for a concept design for a warp drive spaceship currently being prototyped.
Dr Harold “Sonny” White is working on the warp drive program at NASA’s Johnson Space Centre, and along with 3D artist Mark Rademaker, has created a concept for what a future ship capable of allowing us to explore the galaxy might look like, though the project is still at such an early stage that nothing is concrete. The proposed design involves “a sleek ship nestled at the centre of two enormous rings, which create the warp bubble”, with some elements seeing to resemble parts of the famous USS Enterprise from Star Trek.
White has spent his career working on ways to propel spacecrafts to faster than the speed of light, and this model would do so by bending the space around it, making the distance shorter. This means, Diaz writes, that the Enterprise wouldn’t break Einstein’s theory of relativity, as within its little bubble it wouldn’t be moving faster than light.
If that confuses you, think of space as like a train. You, the passenger, are the spaceship in its bubble. Let’s say you walk from carriage to carriage as the train is moving at 300mph. As you walk through the train you never break from your standard walking pace; but imagine someone watching your train go by from outside. To you, you’re moving forward at 3mph; but to the outsider, you’re moving at the same speed as the train. That’s how a warp bubble would work.
NASA are already experimenting with the concept of warp bubbles in small-scale; and it turns out, White and his team are closer to this goal than you might think. White believes that if his work is successful, it will create an engine that could get us to Alpha Centauri in two weeks.
