Why buy the Lordship when you can just choose the title from the drop-down? Also on the show today, Black Hat 2008 shatters our faith in all that is technology (just like it does every year), and we engage in a lively discussion about the relative crappiness of the applications on the App Store, as well as the moral ramifications of Apple being able to nuke those crappy applications remotely.
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EPISODE 783 |
Times Online: 'Fakeproof' e-passport is cloned in minutes
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article4467106.ece
Black Hat: DNS flaw much worse than previously reported
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/08/dns-flaw-much-w.html
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10009827-83.html
Hacking electronic-toll systems
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10009353-83.html
Apple sued for turning workers into slaves
http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/07/132229
Google offers free legal music in China
http://www.techtree.com/India/News/Google_Offers_Free_Legal_Music_in_China/551-91943-643.html
Microsoft searching for Olympic medals
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10009847-56.html
A look at risk-reward: Apple may nuke applications on your iPhone remotely
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=9587
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10009764-94.html
PTO rains on Dell’s ‘Cloud Computing’ trademark
http://www.internetnews.com/government/article.php/3763741/PTO+Rains+on+Dells+Cloud+Computing+Trademark.htm
Worthless, $1,000 “I Am Rich” iPhone app disappears
http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/8/worthless-1000-i-am-rich-iphone-app-disappears
But someone bought it! (Thanks Max!)
http://gizmodo.com/5034122/guy-buys-999-im-rich-app-discovers-hes-just-dumb
English ‘Lord’ puts life up for sale on eBay
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26073308/
$12 MIT computer based on NES, not Apple II
http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/06/1925225
VOICE MAIL
Anonymous Wardriver
Found an interesting unencrypted Wi-Fi connection
Don’t go to law school! Don’t kid about going to law school, don’t talk about going to law school, and above all, don’t actually go to law school.
There. That is my one good deed for the day, and it cost me 1/10th of an hour of billable time. Damn.
Chris the attorney in DC
So…this thing can still probably cook up some hot dogs, right?
http://dvice.com/archives/2008/08/a_gaming_pc_mad.php
excerpt:
Yes, it’s a PC modded from a grill. The PC components themselves are where the charcoal should be, with the screen stuck up under the open top and the keyboard on the tray that would normally hold a plate piled high with burgers and hot dogs.
Best,
Shalin
The TSA addressed the missing/stolen laptop issue today on their blog. Bottom line: Clear was in violation of the SFO security plan and the TSA is doing a review of the Clear systems to make sure they’re doing what they’re supposed to do. The TSA let this incident occur, but it’s not because of lax security measures (thankfully).
http://www.tsa.gov/blog/2008/08/encryption-is-issue-in-case-of-missing.html
-Brian