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sunwatcher

5 karma · joined September 6, 2011

I'm London(UK)-based and available for contract work. I build web apps (typically MVP's) on top of Google App Engine and am most familiar with Python in the backend and the usual suspects on the front end (CSS3, Html5, Javascript).
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sunwatcher··on Change your Last.fm password
There's a great deal of room for improvement in password protection, which would make stealing a password very difficult. Some discussion on developments in that front here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4047968
sunwatcher··on Google Blockly - a visual programming language
I've always thought it would be cool to have a backend environment similar to labVIEW (but faster!). I use labview in my research and it is the best solution I've found for encouraging / allowing for code re-use. This Google Blockly, to some extent, seems to be heading that way - I'm looking forward to seeing how it develops.
sunwatcher··on Authentication using a picture as a password
I think you are right - I would also imagine that you could have a collage of images with meaning to you e.g. places you've worked and you pick the order your worked at them - thus the same set of pictures could be presented in different configurations changing your tap-pattern each time.
sunwatcher··on Authentication using a picture as a password
I would be interested to see the mathematics behind their claim that a picture password is more complex than (what I assume is) a typical android log in password. I would imagine it would be a little more tricky for any malware to capture a password. Capturing and determining which mouse clicks (for the PC case) are significant is considerably more difficult that analysing the output of a keylogger.