Harper Reed: Tech, Phones, Yo-yoing and Death Metal
Paris hilton.
22 Feb
Posted by Harper in Uncategorized at 01:29 PM
Tags: hacked, hacker, mobile, phone, social, tmobile
So as everyone knows - paris hilton’s phonebook was "hacked." it seems to me that it was gained through social engineering. and that social engineering was nothing more than someone calling up paris and asking for her tmobile password. probably something along the lines of:hacker: Hi. I am operator #123 from T-Mobile. There has been a se…
i am hungry for launch.
22 Jul
Posted by Harper in Uncategorized at 06:47 AM
Tags: action, chris, community, crobar, hacker, itunes, nokia, phone, search, war
so we have been workign to launch this search engine for a couple weeks now - and I think we got it. congrats everyone involved. hehe. i have been playing a lot. tonight I made a juke box for some friends, I hooked up my new website, and I slept from 6-10
argh
07 Jan
Posted by Harper in Uncategorized at 10:22 PM
Tags: asia, bush, family, google, hacker, halloween, harper, humor, internet, iraq, movies, phone, reed, rock, school, search, server, Sites, tools, video, war, watership, websites
today I am tired. I have been working all day an I just don’t feel well about it. like I should have slept or something. it is weird. I mean I did get up a bit late.. but I feel so “walking dead-ish” - ugh. whatever. I will wake up right *now*last night I got an email from riply’s believe it or not about our friend rusty. they si…
Technologists are so crazy. they never seem to stop trying to figure out what is going on. this is a great link exemplifing this very idea. The DSS scene is stuck because of DTV’s good ability to counteract good hacks to their smart card system. They keep upgrading and fuxoring everyone up. But the hackers keep coming out with new fixes.. and tey keep makin…
Today a dumb ass cracker rooted one of my boxes. It was a cobalt RaQ and was running sendmail and an old version of sshd, so it “deserved it.” I had done a lot to make it more secure, however the default web admin tools that my clients use relied on sendmail and telnet and such. it was super sketchy. So anyway, the reason I say that it was a dumb ass cracker, was because they tried to install a r…
Hobbies… uhh.. geek
13 Aug
Posted by Harper in Uncategorized at 06:55 PM
Tags: audrey, audreyhacking, computers, hacker, hacking, harper, job, reed, server
Well, i have grown up and now i have a job and all sorts of responsibilities(hehe). I also got a hobby. I am a tinkerer, a gadgeteer, a hacker. Hehe. That is also a synynom for dork. I recently have been setting up my new web server, and hacking the audrey and doing all sorts of geeky stuff. I have been coll…
Hi. My name is Harper. I am an engineer and software architect involved in social networks and the open source software. I am very happily employed as the CTO to the awesome skinnyCorp in Chicago, IL. We make some really cool stuff. This is obviously my blog. I write about everything from being a professional yoyoer to hacking the newest Internet appliance. Be sure and check out my homepage at harperreed.org. If you are so interested, my resume is located here. I love getting emails and what not so feel free to contact me through here.
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