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2006
956 posts
AT&T – BellSouth Merger Approved
How soon we forget on why the Bell’s were broken up in the first place and why AT&T was regulated to only being a Long Distance carrier. I laughed when I read their concession on Net Neutrality and some price locks on some services. This merger is going to come back and haunt those in the Bell South service area.
Using Computer Clock Skew to Crack Anonymity Networks
At the recent Chaos Communications Congress, Steven J. Murdoch, a researcher in the security group at the University of Cambridge, discussed how clock skew can be used to facilitate a digital attack against anonymity networks. Clock skew, the tendency for a computer's clock to become less precise when heated, can reduce the efficacy of anonymizers, such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Tor network.
GNC-2006-12-29
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Where the heck did that Web Traffic come from?
Today I logged into my Web Statistics service and was pretty shocked to see that the site was being visited at the rate of about 20,000 hits a hour. I thought to myself I must have had a article hit the front page of Digg or Slashdot.
Someone at Microsoft has lost their minds!
Well first Microsoft gives bloggers laptops with Vista loaded on it for review and they are told they can do whatever they want with the laptop as in keep it, give it away when they were done with the review.
Performancing to be acquired by PayPerPost
If the rumours are true and it turns out that the PayPerPost people have acquired Performancing then I am truly disappointed as those guys seemed to be on the right track.
Wanted High Performance External Drive!
I have been sifting through a lot of sites and not quite finding what I need, what I am looking for is a high performance external drive to use with my MacBook Pro the current external I am using I am not happy with the performance. If you have a suggestion on a high performance external drive drop me a line. geeknews@gmail.com
HD DVD Encryption Hacked!
BackupHDDVD, a tool to decrypt AACS protected movies has been released. This is for serious geeks only at this point. But needless to say this is going to cause some conversation. [doom9.org]
Are Apple Excutives headed for the Federal Pen?
Everytime I hear about investigations into Stock Options and executive perks I usually ignore the story. But you would think a company as big as Apple with smart investment people and a bevy of lawyers would know better than to allegedly falsify documents.
Microsoft gives Laptops to Bloggers with Vista Loaded!
The first question I have for those that got Laptops from Microsoft is this. Have you ever been critical of the company? My guess is that just like Santa Clause checking his list to see who has been naughty and nice, my guess is that those bloggers that got laptops have been pretty nice to Microsoft.
Apple unable to update Podcast Listings due to Holiday Crush?
I started getting e-mails a couple of days ago from listeners saying they could not find my latest show in iTunes. Turns out that Apple got hit so hard during the holiday rush that it has taxed their infrastructure to the point where they quite updating podcast listings.
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