Archive for January, 2009
Saturday, January 17th, 2009
Portuguese Holidays iCal
If you want *all* the Portuguese holidays in your calendar, subscribe the following ics:
http://cals.sig9.net/ptHolidays/
Here’s a list of optional parameters:
ey = <end year YYYY> (defaults to <current year> + 3)
sy = <start year YYYY> (defaults to <current year> - 2)
ct = <city> ({lisboa, porto} are the only cities currently available)
Example:
http://cals.sig9.net/ptHolidays/?ct=lisboa&sy=2009&ey=2015
If you want the […]
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Friday, January 16th, 2009
Human power to break CAPTCHA
While there’s people out there working for 1 cent an hour, CAPTCHA will never be bullet proof… just because it’s not supposed to be Human proof.
Check out http://www.anti-captcha.com/ or the google translation here since the original site is in Russian. Impressive that they even offer SLAs.
Tags:captcha, security
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Sunday, January 11th, 2009
MSIT-IS 1st Semester Retrospective
A lot of people have been asking me for a retrospective of the Lisbon MSIT-IS (Masters in Information Technology - Information Security) program from Carnegie Mellon, so I decided to post here a review of the previous semester.
First of all, this is a Dual Program (MSIT-IS from CMU and Mestrado em Segurança Informatica from FCUL). […]
