Just an FYI, Tailrank (and Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, pretty much anyone that crawls the web) was hit with a coordinated spam attack sometime last night and early this morning. This is similar to an attack that we found and documented before. Some jerk has hacked into a few hundred WordPress blogs and installed a trojan [...]
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No good deed goes unpunished: A customer brought the laptop to Leapfrog Computers in Bolton on Monday to have it repaired, sales manager Jonathan Parry said. “A technician had a look at it, opened it up to have a look at the components inside, and when you actually open up the laptop and take off [...]
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Want to stick it to the man? Want the ability to preserve your 4th Amendment rights without having to file a class action lawsuit against AT&T? Then watch this cool presentation about Off the Record (OTR) encryption: Instant messaging (IM) is an increasingly popular mode of communication on the Internet. Although it is used for [...]
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What do you get when you combine a cool distributed system, new programming language, and illegal government spying? Apparently, a programming language named Hancock: An AT&T research paper published in 2001 and unearthed today by Andrew Appel at Freedom to Tinker shows how the phone company uses Hancock-coded software to crunch through tens of millions [...]
Categories: open source,security
Michael Moore is a smart guy. Having been attacked by conservatives for years, sticking to his guns is finally starting to pay off. Apparently it’s paying off so well that he’s now part of the mainstream: “Three years ago I was booed off the Oscar for daring to suggest that we were being led to [...]
Check this out…. I never thought of this but you might be able to use the ‘lock’ icon to trick people into revealing too much personal information. Apparently they’re considering removing favicon support in Firefox 3.0 because of this…. We are considering removing the favicon from the location bar, and changing the location bar so [...]
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Thank god. Time for me to start paying for music again. Cory get’s it wrong though. It isn’t as simple as 130% pricing: Apple has announced that iTunes will make individual AAC format tracks available from EMI artists at twice the sound quality of existing downloads, with their DRM removed, at a price of $1.29/€1.29/£0.99. [...]
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