I always think of things I should have added in the hour after making a post. Sigh. Here goes… The situation is perhaps not so different from mailing lists, Google groups or any number of...
Facebook has rolled out a new version of groups announced on the Facebook blog. “Until now, Facebook has made it easy to share with all of your friends or with everyone, but there hasn’t been...
University of Michigan professor J. Alex Halderman explains how his research group compromised the Washington DC online voting pilot in his blog post, Hacking the D.C. Internet Voting Pilot....
Fastcompany has an article, Credit Cards Will Go Electronic, Then Disappear Into iPhone 5, predicting the merger of RFID-enabled credit cards and smart phones. “Nokia plans to add antennas and...
From slashdot earlier today: “Numerous Stuxnet related stories continue to flow through my bin today, so brace yourself: Unsurprisingly, Iran blames Stuxnet on a plot set up by the west...
Full Title: Secret message in the Canadian Governor General coat of arms? Slashdot highlights another mystery today — what’s the meaning of the binary sequence along the bottom of the personal...
If you are interested in the Stuxnet worm, take a look at this blog post from F-secure Labs, Stuxnet Questions and Answers. It’s relatively free of over ventilation and speculation. F-secure is...
Peter Norvig has exquisite tastes in programming, is a Lisp guru and is also a great Python hacker. Put that together and what do you get? Lis.py, an interpreter for the core of the Lisp dialect...
Ars Technica has an an article on bad Android apps, Some Android apps caught covertly sending GPS data to advertisers. “The results of a study conducted by researchers from Duke University,...
The Banned Books Week (BBW) is an annual event that celebrates the “freedom to read”. The campaign was started in 1982 and is held during the last week of September. The United States campaign,...