Disclaimer: I don’t mean to be picking on the particular organizations / projects / people who I’ll mention below. They are just examples of a larger trend I observed.
Sometimes (most of the times?) we forget just how powerful the ...
more ...is when the user is the busiest, for example when s/he just started your application. See for example the screenshot below with Adobe Air (click trough to see it in its full beauty).
Recently there have been quite a few copyright-related posts which came up in my feedreader. This is of course a complicated and layered problem which can’t be solved in the couple of paragraphs of this blogpost, but at least I can post a bunch of great materials which should ...
more ...This again is the case of a couple of links on the same topic piling up in my reader (this tends to happen if you take a pause in blogging :-)):
In the last couple of weeks I had at least two cases where I saw a
(provocative) post come up in my feedreader, click trough to read the
entire piece (BTW, partial feeds just suck!), just to find that the
owner removed the post. The first was from the DynDNS ...
Recently I was reading the blogpost on the BrekingPoint labs log about
parsing pcap files with
Perl
and I immediately said to myself: it is impossible that there isn’t a
module on CPAN, because Perl is
great.
Turns out I was right, there is
Net::TcpDumpLog
which can be ...
PHD Comics is always great and hilarious (and worth to subscribe to if you are even vaguely related to the academic world - like trough a friend of a friend :-)) but there are those occasions when it is epic, like this one:
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The theory of capitalism (and I’m greatly oversimplifying here, I know)
says that, even is we all follow just our own self interest, a global
“good” will somehow emerge. This is what F-Secure is doing in their
blogpost where
they write about a specific ransomware which – if you get ...
Yet an other example of real-life Chinese whispers in the security journalism:
A Hungarian online news site published an article titled “Hackers tried to steal user data from Amazon” (here is a somewhat usable automatic translation for the non-Hungarian speakers). I assume that the information went like this:
What happened ...
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We begin today’s FUD-buster with – applause please – cyberterorism via
an “article”: Cyberterrorism: A look into the
future.
The article talks about Estonia (which is the poster-child for “cyber”
incidents these days) and says the following thing (amongst others
equally high-quality content) – emphasis added:
more ...“The three-week cyberattack on Estonia ...