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I never sell old hard drives. I probably have 25 of them laying around everything from 115 megs to 4 gigs. I use them for book-stops and various other geek uses. After all the 1.6 gig Maxtor I paid a $1000.00 dollars for not so many years ago sits on my desk and arouses interesting conversations on technology and where
There is more information being leaked out about the landmark agreement that the RIAA and Software/Consumer Product vendors hashed out. Unfortunately as we reported before they did not invite the MPAA so now you have a Goliath Versus Goliath battle that is already getting ugly. With the RIAA and their collaborators now pitted against MPAA legislative initiatives this could boil
Those of us that host our own servers should care and stay on top of security issues the above group has released a list along with a white paper that should make interesting reading. I would like some feedback on what you think of there list and of there initiatives. [www.owasp.org]
A group of hackers are meeting at MIT this Friday to put their collective thinking caps on and come up with a plan to bring the big guns of technology to bear on the spam problem. I wish them luck I just wonder how many actual spammers are going to attend the meeting. [Wired]
Spam we all get it we all hate it. Why does it keep flowing the answer is simple people respond to offers and buy merchandise. Unknowingly to the ignorant customer some of these sites are not securing the order information and their personal data is sitting in linked files all over the Internet. I am sure it will shock some
For about 2 weeks I have been working with my hosting provider to have my account moved to a new machine due to some performance issues. We were on a Windows server and had planned on staying on a Windows server. Well we ended up on a Unix server and had a mess on our hands. It did not help
Companies are finding it impossible to snuff out file sharing so If you can't snuff the P2P Networks then the next best thing is make available one those same networks thousands of damaged copies of programs and music. The battle continues. [Wired]
Secret plans by a music tech group on copyright issues smells funny. I have a feeling that the secret deal could contains language that may further restrict consumers fair use of copyright materials. Mysteriously the powerful MPAA was not included in the talks. The agreement is shrouded in secrecy. We will see how this develops, with major tech companies involved
I am glad someone thought up this product. I hate having to boot my laptop to see if there is a WiFi connection in the area. This credit card size device is pretty simple press the button on the detector and you get a Green light if there is a Wifi Connection available. It's only drawback is that there is
In a very disturbing report it appears that the RIAA supposedly could be preparing to hack your computer by inserting malicious code into MP3's that will supposedly audit then disable file sharing. They will probably free from any type of prosecution due to the Breman bill. I am not surprised what will probably happen next is they will be send
Radio Frequency Identification, is this the technology that is eventually going to spy on us in our homes and as we walk around. In some places it is already spying on us when we shop. As merchants try to develop profiles and trends that improve what they stock on their shelves and how merchandise is presented can actually make our
Seems Kevin Mitnick's publishers would not publish the short Bio he wanted included in his recent book "Art of Deception" But you can read it here [The Register]
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