15 February 2013, 16:44

Lost+Found: Angry ATMs, atmospheric entropy and virtual ShmooCon

Too small for news, but too good to lose, Lost+Found is a compilation of the other stories that have been on The H's radar this week. In this edition: Angry Birds where they shouldn't be, the search for a new hashing scheme, atmospheric noise, the ShmooCon live stream, and more jailbreak details.

Manipulated cash points can be difficult to detect, but if the machine you're about to get money from invites you to a game of Angry Birds, you should really be suspicious.

The Password Hashing Competition is looking for new, state-of-the-art hashing schemes for user passwords.

Even if you're not planning on spending the weekend in the Hyatt Regency Washington, you can still watch the live stream of ShmooCon, the hacker conference taking place there.

Entropy is an important – but scarce – resource on computers. Paul Warren uses the driver for software-defined radio based on Realtek RTL2832U in DVB-T dongles (rtl-sdr) to extract real entropy from atmospheric noise (rtl-entropy).