* Posts by jimhsu

2 publicly visible posts • joined 9 May 2010

Credit card 'flash attack' steals up to $500,000 a month

jimhsu
Boffin

Can't detect?

Kind of question the assertion that this is difficult to detect. A threshold (say, 3 transactions in 5 seconds) that no normal individual would come close to, or a detection of ATM use across more than N terminals at least 1 km apart (where N is the number of ATM cards or account holders) could trigger a fraud warning. I'm sure banks have this info already when you're making the transaction.

50 million user Scribd scraps Flash for HTML5

jimhsu
Alert

Great, but

Great effort, but the text quality is just not there yet (for most browsers).

Flash output: http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/5499/flashy.png

Firefox output: http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/7734/firefoxregular.png

Firefox with experimental Direct2D acceleration (only nightly builds): http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/9426/firefoxdirect2d.png

The last one is looking close, but still doesn't look as good. The firefox regular (which most browsers will display) just looks like crap.