Recent content by Jarl Gullberg

Now this, this is a great example of why the NSA is missing the point. In utilizing Heartbleed instead of allowing it to be patched, they put companies, individuals and governments at risk from cyberterrorists, crackers and their ilk - any damage they may have negated by using the bug to gather...

Is it really appropriate to bring up the supposed Facebook branding when it's been disproven by a Facebook rep? It's been revealed as a false rumor; the article should at least reflect that.

I bet his defense is going to be "My research led me to play GTAV for one hour, and I suddenly felt an inexplicable desire to jump in cahoots with some gangs. Blame the games!"

Ah, that's what b:0x40 was. 0x40 is hex for 64 - thus, we have b:64 (base64) log:RFC 48 80 most likely leads to the PGP encryption key, which we'll need to decode the message. Scratch that - it's referring to the message format. www.rfc-base.org/rfc-4880.html

The guys over at the Frictional Forums appear to have identified it as Bas64. When I ran it myself, this is what I got: -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (MingW32) jA0ECQMCOZMp4iR4ULWu0loBVLEt7zgQyTJONONNcynZhdoO0lp2FC6h8/54NRAu...

Well, digging down into the new site reveals this: Me and a friend managed to slap it together after some work. The quote is from VALIS by Philip K. Dick. I've personally never read the book, so I can only Wikispeculate >.=.> The title is an acronym for Vast Active Living Intelligence.

Yeah, I found that the site had been around for a while right after posting >.=.> Whoops. Thanks for that tweet and link, though!

EDIT: I now know The Dark Swarm has been around since 2007 - sorry about that. My thoughts are still valid, though ;) Maybe Frictional decided to finally bring The Dark Swarm to life? So, Frictional Games are releasing a new horror game! Drinks all around - this might be a really good one...

Certainly looks like it's just "cogito ergo sum" so far, but that might change in the future. I moved the distorted parts around a little and reconstructed it. http://reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/1nd8ui/next_frictional_games_game_reconstructed_website/ I personally enjoyed The Dark Descent...

This is my current desktop on both my laptop and my desktop - the desktop has two more screens, though.

Warcraft. Blizzard should seriously consider creating either a singleplayer RPG Mass Effect-style built around a VR technology such as the Oculus Rift or make a WoW 2.0 that really incorporates and embraces new technologies that has come out since it was released, as well as taking a step...

da Vinci, no doubt in my mind. It would be so amazing to see him behold all of our wonder... and mistakes.

Ronk ronk ronk Fairly entertaining to read this xD 1. Male 2. Roughly once a day when I'm in the mood - however, if I feel it's getting too frequent I take a month off. No, I'm serious. 3. Currently not in a relationship. 4. Never been in a serious relationship, so I wouldn't know. 5...

I'd say mine is permanent imprisonment. The thought of seeing the sky just a window away and never being able to reach it, ever, ever again... I think it would drive me properly mad. I wouldn't last a year.