Scott Raymond, co-founder and CTO of Gowalla confirms the rumors: It wasn’t an easy decision, but Facebook has always been a friend of the company, so joining their team is a natural move. I’m incredibly excited to work alongside folks that have already changed the world pretty profoundly, and who have an even bigger vision …
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BozoCrack MD5 Password Hash Cracker
BozoCrack is a depressingly effective MD5 password hash cracker with almost zero CPU/GPU load. Instead of rainbow tables, dictionaries, or brute force, BozoCrack simply finds the plaintext password … via Google. Specifically, it Googles the MD5 hash and hopes the plaintext appears somewhere on the first page of results. It works way better than it …
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I Believe I can Fly (Flight of the Frenchies)
On Gowalla, Facebook, Instagram, Path, and Storytelling
I was meaning to write a blogpost on Gowalla 4. About how I used it less than before. But also about that when I use it (which I still do from time to time), I use it in a more engaged way. In the blogpost on Path 2, I was going to state that “Path …
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The Instagram Server Stack
This is how our system has evolved in the just-over-1-year that we’ve been live, and while there are parts we’re always re-working, this is a glimpse of how a startup with a small engineering team can scale to our 14 million+ users in a little over a year. What Powers Instagram: Hundreds of Instances, Dozens …