Ronald A. Richardson

Developer at @vuurr, US Marine, aspiring cybernetics pioneer, artist, poet, cook, and badass. Love to code, hike, and clean. Follow me @twitter, @github

QuickPwn 2.2 for Windows and Mac – iPhone 2.2 jailbreak/unlock, iPhone 3G jailbreak Posted on December 8th, 2008

The iPhone Dev Team has released version 2.2 of the QuickPwn tool for Windows and Mac OS X, which adds support for the latest iPhone firmware (2.2).

SAT and JAP Posted on December 5th, 2008

These test can cause a bit of stress, not because they are “hard,” but for them being so long. If the SAT wasn’t so long, I’d have no problem taking one. Anyways, despite the title of my blog being called SAT. It’s not about the SAT I will be taking tomorrow. It’s a bit of [...]

The important thing about security systems isn’t how they work, it’s how they fail. Posted on December 2nd, 2008

If you ever decide to do something as stupid as build an automatic terrorism detector, here’s a math lesson you need to learn first. It’s called “the paradox of the false positive,” and it’s a doozy. Say you have a new disease, called SuperAIDS. Only one in a million people gets SuperAIDS. You develop a [...]