[Dailydave] Colors are good.

[Dave Aitel]

We added something in the next release of SILICA (see it this week!)
which my simplistic mind thinks is interesting: colors.

For a long time now I've wondered how, as a primate with highly
developed color vision, none of our languages support color as a primary
encoding. For example, why is Chinese not written (at least in training
programs) as Red for tone 1, Blue for tone 2, etc. Even if it was just
redundant on top of the language itself, it would speed up the
processing in your brain when it was there, since we have all these
neurons processing color all the time anyways. When humans read it is,
in a sense, like a top end NVidia GPU doing 2d desktop composition.

In that same vein, below is the next SILICA GUI upgrade. We added a
smart heuristic that color grades each network you see with the
"hackability". Green, for example, is a WEP network that has a wireless
client and some traffic you can see. Yellow is a WEP network with no
traffic, etc. This changes the whole way you use SILICA. Previously I
sorted by signal strength, and then manually went down and looked at the
networks using my own in-head "hackability" heuristic. Now you sort by
color and it's done for you.





More on SILICA in general and Wireless attacks here:
http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/08/wireless-password-easily-cracked/

STALKER is in the next SILICA release too. You can learn things about
yourself that you probably didn't want to know (which is what happened
to me when Mark was testing it on me last week - more on this later!).

-dave



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