Linkapalooza: January 3, 2011

By The Linker

January 3, 2011 — Our New Year’s resolution, here at Linkapalooza, is to use real random numbers, not just pretend to use them. Many of you may have noticed that the Playstation 3 was hacked over the Christmas break, and it was all because Sony, for some reason, used the exact same “random” number every time it generated a key on the device. Well done, sirs!

Root keys for PS3 released. Or not. Read the comments.

How to: multi-domain SSL, Nginx, 1 IP address...

My favorite interview question...

Maze generation...

Designers versus engineers...

Ad hoc data anlysis from the UNIX command line...

Today's random Wikipedia entry: Pink Knotweed

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