As summarised on Cryptome, a new vulnerability (PDF) has been discovered in the crypto co-processors used by banks worldwide which allows insiders to trivially find out PINs of any or all of that bank's customers. The attack was discovered by Ross Anderson and Mike Bond in the course of their investigation into a "Phantom Withdrawal" court case where a bank customer had money debited from their account but denied that their card or PIN was used. In a new twist Citibank has applied for a court order (PDF) which could prevent public disclosure of this flaw. Ross Anderson has produced a response (PDF) opposing such an order. [kuro5hin.org]

There is still one problem: I would like to use the TrueType fonts of Mac OS X in PdfLaTeX (especially Gill Sans), but this seems to be problematic. Thus, for now I'm using Helvetica as the text font in PdfLaTeX. (I hope Gerben Wierda manages to finish his nice work on this area.)

I also developed my first theme for Keynote, trying to make it simple but flexible. This was more easy than I thought it would be, although I did make some wrong choices at first.

Here is a screen capture of LaTeX-typeset equations in Keynote. Here I have output my presentation into the QuickTime format using the medium/CD-ROM resolution.