Archive for the 'Fun' Category



As you might know, today Google released it’s own web browser called Chrome. I just had to have a look at it and have to say, it’s really not that bad but I just wanted to know if I’m able to crash it
Here’s my result after a few minutes:

Get the Flash Player to [...]

Swiss Post owned by Terrorists

My sister had her birthday a few days ago and she got a lot of cards from all over Switzerland. One of them was very interesting because it was a letter, sent from our aunts who’re living in Zurich Kloten which is where also the Zurich Airport is. Now remember 9/11 and have a look [...]

Hacking Coffee Makers

Yesterday, Craig Wright has sent an email to the BugTraq mailing list and because it’s a funny story, I’d like to share it with my readers.

Hi All,
I have a Jura F90 Coffee maker with the Jura Internet Connection Kit. The idea is to:
“Enable the Jura Impressa F90 to communicate with the Internet, via a PC.
Download [...]

Youtube has got Code Monkeys

We all know the “500 Internal Server Error” but have you ever seen it on youtube.com:
http://m.youtube.com/index?warned=1&session=%
It says:

Sorry, something went wrong.
A team of highly trained monkeys has been dispatched to deal with this situation. Please report this incident to customer service.
You guys made my day
PS: For some reason you sometimes have to click on [...]

Advanced English?

As you might know, I’m actually studying computer science at the Bern University of Applied Sciences Engineering and Information Technology. Yesterday we had English lessons and I’m in the advanced group, which is the highest level we can attend in this semester. So let’s have a look at an exercise we’ve done in this lesson [...]

A Native “JavaScript” Speaker?

I just found a website, where you can let a bot read an article to you. You might say that this isn’t special but there was this parameter called “id” which I had to play with. When I used id=8838 it was some kind of special because it was reading the code of it’s own [...]

(According to the following blog posting, be aware of that I’ve never bypassed any authorization mechanism, nor did I break, access or change anything I was not allowed to.)
Last weekend, I went snowboarding in the Swiss mountains and the weather including the snow was just perfect. Because the winter sport season hasn’t started yet, there [...]

Become a Suspect

A few days ago, I’ve got the following Mail (it’s in German):
Hallo,
das warst doch du, der unser Sprachportal (MobiLingua, Uni Passau) über das Forum gehackt hat und mir damit einen gehörigen Schrecken eingejagt hat, oder?
Jedenfalls danke für den Hinweis – das ist halt der Nachteil von CMS: Man kann zwar mit relativ wenig Hintergrundwissen ein [...]

Hide Email Address from Spam Bots

Today I came across the user profile of Foz at the wiki of the Chaos Communication Camp 2007. He’s done a really nice way of hiding his mail address from spam bots (I’ve done it now with my own address):
ruby -e 'puts "h!c!.!t!n!a!h!c!n!e!s!i!d!@!h!c!s!t!e!v!.!n!e!v!s".split("!").join.reverse'
Of course no normal or better say “non-geek” person will be able to contact you anymore [...]

Craziest Captchas on the Web

I found the following blog posting and like to share it with all of you. It has some really crazy examples of CAPTCHAS there and my favorite is definitely the one with the CAPTCHA string in the image’s URI
Craziest Captchas on the Web