Weekend Reading
Every breath you take...
Privacy is a growing concern in today's world where there are surveillance cameras on every other corner and RFID chips in our passports. You can no longer check into most hotels without showing ID and you certainly can't fly on a commercial airline anonymously. It seems as if the government is determined to track us everywhere we go, and with modern technology, it's increasingly easy to do. But it's not just government agencies, private eyes and industrial spies who are using technology for that purpose. The ability to track others' movements and activities is increasingly available to anyone who wants to use it.
Take a look HERE.
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Cyberattack in Estonia - what it really means
You look around the globe, and there's basically no limit to the amount of skirmishes between well-connected countries that could get incredibly emotional for the population at large. In this case, it has disrupted the Estonian government's ability to work online, it has disrupted a lot of its resources and attention. In that respect, it's been effective. It hasn't brought the government to a crippling halt, but has essentially been effective as a protest tool. People will probably look at this and say, That works. I think we're going to continue to do this kind of thing.
Take a look HERE.
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Wi-Fi Wants To Kill Your Children
Three weeks ago I received my favourite email of all time, from a science teacher. “I’ve just had to ask a BBC Panorama film crew not to film in my school or in my class because of the bad science they were trying to carry out,” it began, describing in perfect detail the Panorama which aired this week.
This show was on the suppressed dangers of radiation from Wi-Fi networks, and how they are harming children. There was no science in it, just some “experiments” they did for themselves, and some conflicting experts. Panorama disagreed with the WHO expert, so he was smeared for not being “independent” enough, and working for a phone company in the past. I don’t do personal smear. But Panorama started it. How independent were they, and the “experiments” they did?
Take a look HERE.
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Mylivesearch aims for beta to better
GOOGLE is keeping a close eye on a small, suburban Melbourne start-up that claims to be developing a search engine that improves on the world leader. Google's search engine works by building a vast index of web pages, via automated "spiders" that crawl through billions of web pages a year. However this represents only a fraction of the enormous, sprawling internet, and the index can never be entirely up to date. Yahoo! search and (despite its name) Microsoft's Live search work the same way. MyLiveSearch is fundamentally different. It works through a small browser plug-in. The search terms are put through Google, or other indexed search databases, but those results are treated as "starting points" alongside the user's bookmarks and other popular web hubs.
Take a look HERE.
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Bug Disclosures Decline
The bad news: The number of reported security vulnerabilities out in cyberspace is still growing. The good news: That growth has slowed significantly over last year. Researchers say the number of bugs reported so far this year has increased by about 5 percent, versus the 40- to 60-percent spike seen in 2006.
Take a look HERE.
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Deploy 802.11n sooner rather than later
More throughput, greater range but unstandardized technology.
Take a look HERE.
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Password Crackers
I think I may have put this list up before, but, for the benefit of new readers, this article lists a number of password cracking utilities for many different operating systems including Windows, Linux and BSD
Read the article HERE.
Privacy is a growing concern in today's world where there are surveillance cameras on every other corner and RFID chips in our passports. You can no longer check into most hotels without showing ID and you certainly can't fly on a commercial airline anonymously. It seems as if the government is determined to track us everywhere we go, and with modern technology, it's increasingly easy to do. But it's not just government agencies, private eyes and industrial spies who are using technology for that purpose. The ability to track others' movements and activities is increasingly available to anyone who wants to use it.
Take a look HERE.
==================================================================
Cyberattack in Estonia - what it really means
You look around the globe, and there's basically no limit to the amount of skirmishes between well-connected countries that could get incredibly emotional for the population at large. In this case, it has disrupted the Estonian government's ability to work online, it has disrupted a lot of its resources and attention. In that respect, it's been effective. It hasn't brought the government to a crippling halt, but has essentially been effective as a protest tool. People will probably look at this and say, That works. I think we're going to continue to do this kind of thing.
Take a look HERE.
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Wi-Fi Wants To Kill Your Children
Three weeks ago I received my favourite email of all time, from a science teacher. “I’ve just had to ask a BBC Panorama film crew not to film in my school or in my class because of the bad science they were trying to carry out,” it began, describing in perfect detail the Panorama which aired this week.
This show was on the suppressed dangers of radiation from Wi-Fi networks, and how they are harming children. There was no science in it, just some “experiments” they did for themselves, and some conflicting experts. Panorama disagreed with the WHO expert, so he was smeared for not being “independent” enough, and working for a phone company in the past. I don’t do personal smear. But Panorama started it. How independent were they, and the “experiments” they did?
Take a look HERE.
==================================================================
Mylivesearch aims for beta to better
GOOGLE is keeping a close eye on a small, suburban Melbourne start-up that claims to be developing a search engine that improves on the world leader. Google's search engine works by building a vast index of web pages, via automated "spiders" that crawl through billions of web pages a year. However this represents only a fraction of the enormous, sprawling internet, and the index can never be entirely up to date. Yahoo! search and (despite its name) Microsoft's Live search work the same way. MyLiveSearch is fundamentally different. It works through a small browser plug-in. The search terms are put through Google, or other indexed search databases, but those results are treated as "starting points" alongside the user's bookmarks and other popular web hubs.
Take a look HERE.
==================================================================
Bug Disclosures Decline
The bad news: The number of reported security vulnerabilities out in cyberspace is still growing. The good news: That growth has slowed significantly over last year. Researchers say the number of bugs reported so far this year has increased by about 5 percent, versus the 40- to 60-percent spike seen in 2006.
Take a look HERE.
==================================================================
Deploy 802.11n sooner rather than later
More throughput, greater range but unstandardized technology.
Take a look HERE.
==================================================================
Password Crackers
I think I may have put this list up before, but, for the benefit of new readers, this article lists a number of password cracking utilities for many different operating systems including Windows, Linux and BSD
Read the article HERE.
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