OK, I didn’t really buy one, but you can’t be too careful these days. Apparently these new computers are shipping with a virus pre-installed. Is it a feature or a benefit? Read on… http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2016
Archive for October, 2008
07 Oct, 2008
Propeller heads protect you against late-night drink-and-mail.
Posted by: Albee In: Geek|Humor|News Items
The pencil-necked geeks over at Google Labs have a new Gmail addon – it’s called Mail Goggles. Using a series of math questions, it pops up at certain times of day (ahem… after midnight…) and helps you to NOT embarrass yourself with a drunken rant sent to your co-workers or loved ones. Pretty soon Google [...]
This guy got 12 people to think he was hiring them for a construction job. Turns out they were unwitting decoys in a bank job. http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081003-bank-robber-crowdsources-disguise-to-craigslist-floats-away.html
Turns out Visa, Mastercard etc. are finally getting the picture that WEP wireless encryption can be cracked by a 2 year old with a kazoo. OK, maybe not. Anyway, it too a 45 billion transaction CC number theft to convince the credit card companies that a technology that was effectively cracked in 2001 is not [...]
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