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Archive for June, 2008
Virtually unlimited e-mail addresses on your single Gmail account
I'm sure everyone already knows about this, but you might have forgot or recently overlooked this "feature." Long story short: username@gmail.com = user.name@gmail.com = us.er.na.me@gmail.com = username+junk@gmail.com = u.s.ername+ballsack@gmail.com ...et cetera. Very useful for when you sign up on various sites. You can use different e-mail [...]
Mystery on Fifth Avenue
THINGS are not as they seem in the 14th-floor apartment on upper Fifth Avenue. At first blush the family that occupies it looks to be very much of a type. The father, Steven B. Klinsky, 52, runs a private equity company; the mother, Maureen Sherry, 44, left her job as a managing director for Bear Stearns to raise their four young children (two [...]
In Praise of the Fifth Ammendment Right to Not Be a Witness Against Yourself
A law school professor and former criminal defense attorney tells you why you should never agree to be interviewed by the police. In part 2 an experienced police officer tells you why you should never agree to be interviewed by the police. Part 2 after he jump... (more...)
Eee PC 901 News Roundup
Interested in the new Asus Eee PC 901? Here’s a round-up of information about it: Hands on WiMax enabled Eee PC 901 (engadget chinese) Side by side by side: Eee PC 701, 901, 1000 (engadget chinese) Official Specifications (asus.com) Eee PC 901 First Look (notebookreview.com) Eee PC 901 Unboxing, First Impressions [...]
Your Laptops, Please!
Opening Statement of U.S. Senator Russ Feingold Hearing On “Laptop Searches and Other Violations of Privacy Faced by Americans Returning from Overseas Travel†Senate Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Property Rights “If you asked most Americans whether the government has the right [...]
Filling Out Forms: Still a Dangerous Game
It may not sound too scary, but filling out forms on the Web is still a dicey business, a researcher said this week. In an update of his 2002 paper, which exposed many of the vulnerabilities associated with HTML forms, EnableSecurity's Sandro Gauci states that most browsers still haven't completely fixed the problems associated with commonly [...]
Banshee GNU music player for Linux turns 1.0
I'm awfully excited to note (belatedly) that Banshee, the free and open source music player for Linux, turned 1.0 a couple weeks ago. When I first surveyed all the music players available for the girlfriend's Linux laptop, Banshee looked the most promising, but it was still in a fairly unstable beta. Now that it's finished, I'm happily importing [...]
“Shake-up” for internet proposed
The net's regulators will vote on Thursday to decide if the strict rules on so-called top level domain names, such as .com or .uk, can be relaxed. If approved, it could allow companies to turn their brands into domain names while individuals could also carve out their own corner of the net. The move could also see the launch of .xxx, after [...]
The Kernel Boot Process
A previous post explained how computers boot up right up to the point where the boot loader, after stuffing the kernel image into memory, is about to jump into the kernel entry point. This last post about booting takes a look at the guts of the kernel to see how an operating system starts life. Since I have an empirical bent I’ll link [...]
Photographer Documents Secret Satellites… All 189 of Them
BERKELEY, California -- For most people, photographing something that isn't there might be tough. Not so for Trevor Paglen. His shots of 189 secret spy satellites are the subject of a new exhibit -- despite the fact that, officially speaking, the satellites don't exist. The Other Night Sky, on display at the University of California at Berkeley [...]
Java is finally Free and Open!
At JavaOne in May, 2006, Sun Microsystems announced they were going to release Java as free software under the terms of the GPL. The size of the task (6.5 million lines of code) was only eclipsed by the size of the opportunity for Java as a free and open technology. At JavaOne in May 2007, Sun announced that the work was largely completed and [...]
Denial-of-coffee attacks affect networked coffee maker
Now this is just funny... If you own a Jura F90 Coffee Maker, you can also buy a Jura Internet Connection Kit, which lets you program and set your coffee prefs via the network: however, its got a bunch of vulnerabilities that allow for remote denial-of-coffee attacks: Guess what - it can not be patched as far as I can tell ;) It also has a few [...]
Teens face felony charges of computer break-ins & grade changes at California High School
A teenager faces felony charges and could spend decades in prison over allegations that he repeatedly broke into an acclaimed Orange County high school, hacked into computers to change his grades and stole tests -- all in hopes of improving his college admissions prospects, authorities said Tuesday. Omar Khan, 18, should be graduating with his [...]
MySpace Wins Another Verdict Against Alleged Spammer
MySpace can collect $6 million from a notorious Internet marketer accused by the popular online hangout of spamming its users. An arbitrator has ruled that Scott Richter and his Web marketing company, Media Breakaway LLC of Westminster, Colo., must pay MySpace $4.8 million in damages and $1.2 million in attorney's fees for barraging MySpace [...]
Philly activists: “Let’s pass out flyers questioning the need for surveillance cameras.” Result: warrantless search. Police chief: “you’re a hate group.”
When Mayor Nutter announced late last year that he was hiring D.C. Charles Ramsey as his police commissioner, I said I would keep an open mind but I was dismayed at his treatment of anti-war protesters and his frequent clashes there over civil rights. So far, I've been mostly impressed with Ramsey -- murders have dropped slightly while he's taken [...]
Wine 1.0 is now available
Wine has had its first non-beta stable release ever today. By complete coincidence today is the same day Firefox 3 came out. (more...)
Just A Reminder. Today is Firefox 3 Download Day.
When Are You at Risk? An independent study shows that, in 2006, IE users were vulnerable to online threats 78% of the time. Firefox users? Only 2%. Download Firefox 3.0 Download Stats Firefox Security Blog
