pyid3 0.5.5 released

I just uploaded pyid3 0.5.5. All I did for this release is fixed the bug that I put in 0.5.4. Unit tests are only good if you run them I learned.

Mike And In Denver Airport

Mike And In Denver Airport

pyid3 0.5.4 released

I just uploaded pyid3 0.5.4. It’s a small bug fix for id3v1 tags that have the genre field blank. Thanks goes to Torgil Svensson for a patch, and Greg Abbas for also pointing out the problem.

UPDATE: removing it because I didn’t run unit test and released it with a big fat bug.

"Diamond Age" like virus war

Crypto-Gram:

There seems to be an ongoing war between the people who write the Bagle worm and the people who write the Netsky worm. Many variants of each are running around the Internet, and more seem to be found all the time. Embedded in the different versions are comments and taunts to the other.

Sounds like the nanite war in Diamond Age.

Beepcard

Also from Crypto-Gram: BeepCard

BeepCard is a technology company. They sell a sound authenticator for credit cards. The demo looks like a credit card – an actual credit card that passes all the credit card specs for bendability and reliability and everything – and contains a speaker and a sound chip. When you press a certain part of the card – the “button” – it spits out an audible 128-bit random string.

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Why do I like this? It’s a physical authentication system that doesn’t require any special reader hardware. You can use it on a random computer at an Internet cafe. You can use it on a telephone. I can think of all sorts of really easy, really cool applications. If the price is cheap enough, BeepCard has a winner here.