September 28, 2017 0 comments on "Link blog: algorithms, design, dark-patterns, analysis" Link blog: algorithms, design, dark-patterns, analysis How Booking.com manipulates you It strikes me that someone could write a userscript or browser extension to make the site usable.(tags: analysis design algorithms booking.com dark-patterns)
September 21, 2017 0 comments on "Link blog: hardware, skimmer, crime, credit" Link blog: hardware, skimmer, crime, credit Gas Pump Skimmers – learn.sparkfun.com Skimmers which are attached to petrol pumps internally and then use Bluetooth to get the recorded card details out to the bad guys: finally, the killer app!(tags: Bluetooth hardware crime skimmer credit)
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