OddThinking

I have often considered writing a Battleship-playing AI, but I never have.

Now, I discover, there is a Battleship-playing AI competition, which I don’t have the time (or .NET experience) to enter.

There was a rumour out on the web out there that HAL BBS wasn’t to be trusted – it had two backdoors built into the software. It was compiled BASIC, so it wasn’t easy to view the source, but I had a bash at finding those backdoors.

Someone is being a fool and not understanding some of the basics of computer security. That person is either (a) the head of security at ING Direct or (b) it is me.

In which Jeff Atwood dismisses my experience as “naïve”…

Julian: “I’ve had an idea. I am going to name my next pet `v7qo!rt’, so then I can use my pet’s name as a password, and yet still be secure.”

When one of my readers asked for the ability to edit comments in WordPress, I took that request seriously, and decided to find the solution.