This blew my mind. I thought it was broken until I stared at the image for about 5 minutes and I finally managed to get her to spin the other way. What a mind-trip! Thanks Ero for pointing this out. Check out Ero's blog here "nzight's blog". He has some pretty cool insight on this and his blog post and animations help me to finally get the illusion to work. The best way I was able to change the direction was to stare at the edges of the image and not focus on the rotating lady. It would then change direction and I'd see it happen in my peripheral vision and could return my focus to the center thus locking the new rotation direction into place.
Blog spammers are really starting to tick me off. I received 100+ spam comments in the last two days. The really funny thing its on two posts in particular that are not popular at all and in general don't get any traffic. Just goes to show you how retarded blog spammers are. That being said, they have won this battle and I am disabling comments for the short term. I'm in crunch mode on a lot of projects at the moment and don't want to bother to delete their cruft as soon as they enter it, instead I'm disabling comments and will be implementing some sort of captcha after the semester ends. Sorry about the trouble this may cause to my three regular readers (Yes I'm up to three!). Spammers may have won the battle, but I will win the war!
An interesting paper -http://eprint.iacr.org/2007/419.pdf- was released 11/4/07 by some very sharp Israel based security researchers. The basic jist of this paper is that the random number generator in Windows 2K (and possibly other versions of Windows) is garbage. It's seeded poorly, runs in userland, and it appears that it's possible to not only gain access to future random values, but also all previous random values.
This has huge ramifications to things like SSL. Not only can you essentially crack SSL very rapidly, but it's also possible to historically crack captured conversations as well. A high level discussion of some of the issues can be found at:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-11/uoh-slf111207.php
djb has released a paper on his baby qmail, and why the security of qmail hasn't been broken in the last ten years. Overall, it's a good paper with some interesting observations on security engineering processes and why they aren't succeeding in today's security landscapes. Besides looking just like me (djb,me), djb writes an interesting report that many practitioners of secure software engineering should read.
Here's the link... http://cr.yp.to/qmail/qmailsec-20071101.pdf.. Enjoy.
IDA Pro has released v4.9 as freeware. Get your copy HERE. It is by far the best disassembler out there for the windows platform. I HIGHLY recommend using it.
Sorry I haven't posted lately. I'm up to my eyes in school work for the semester. I'll try to post more when I get free time.
