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Luuuuucccyyy! You got some 'splanin' to do! Bought a Samsung computer recently? Might want to run a malware check on it as it appears they may be intentionally installing a keylogger on it without telling you. Security consultant Mohamed Hassan has written an article for Network World that explains how he discovered the software . . . → Read More: [UPDATED] Samsung appears to be installing keyloggers on new computers they sell. 
Take a look at the following picture and tell me what’s wrong with it:
Oh my! It's so scandalous! Apparently that’s all it took for a Georgia high school principal to fire English teacher Ashley Payne: “He just asked me, ‘Do you have a Facebook page?’” Payne said. “And you know, I’m confused as . . . → Read More: Innocuous picture on Facebook gets a teacher fired. The U.S. Government has been pushing what they consider a better passport since August 2007. It contains a contactless smart card in the back cover that contains the same data about you as what is printed in the passport itself. The idea is that this is supposed to make passport forgery impossible for the evil-doers . . . → Read More: The security chip in that fancy new U.S. Passport? It’s made in Thailand. Technically it’s actually episode 3 if you count the Great Lost Episode that was brought about by my momentary technical ineptitude. In this episode we spend way more time than we probably should have recapping what we talked about in the Great Lost Episode. Alas, my ADD was in full force tonight and ***Dave was . . . → Read More: Episode 2 of The SEB Podcast is now online. How’s this for being totally unfair: A Brownsville high school teacher has been suspended for 30 days without pay after she appeared in a picture someone else posted on Facebook that included a male stripper at a bridal shower. [...] Board member Stella Broadwater says the suspension is appropriate because the photo became public, but . . . → Read More: This Just In: Teachers not allowed to have a life outside of school. One of the features of the newer iPhone’s and Google Android based cellphones allow the phone, and any applications you’re running on it, to determine where you are to varying degrees of precision. Using a combination of cell towers (500 meters), Wi-Fi (30 meters), and GPS (10 meters) and various software packages that make use . . . → Read More: Wired’s Mathew Honan experiments with Location-Aware software. According to this video (and this article), there are now services that can pinpoint exactly where a Google search is coming from, down to the exact address. While many of us have known that the search terms we enter in search engines aren’t exactly secret, there has always been the assumption (correctly?) that who is . . . → Read More: Has the web just gotten even less anonymous? The U.K. has a shitload of closed circuit television cameras (CCTV) almost everywhere you go. One local artist who realized that he was monitored almost constantly by the police decided to see how long it would take them to notice an 8 foot tall alien wandering on an empty street so he got some friends . . . → Read More: This is what a surveillance society looks like. The new FISA “compromise” bill that the Senate is about to pass makes me angry just to think about, but deep down I’ve long suspected that our government pretty much spies on us with impunity already. This Baltimore Sun news article pretty much confirms that suspicion: “There’s virtually no branch of the U.S. government that . . . → Read More: Turns out we’re already living in a surveillance state. Remember last month when the Democrats took their pussification to new heights by passing the new FISA law that would grant the Telecoms immunity from prosecution as a compromise? As it turns out giving the Telecoms immunity is the least of the problems that bill creates: The new FISA compromise: it’s worse than you think . . . → Read More: ArsTechnica.com reports that the new FISA law is worse than you think. |
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