Smart phone hacks by sending an SMS have been reported. How can a plain dumb short txt turn viral?
The hack works by tweaking the message headers. The SMS can execute malicious code on the smart phone (the example in this case is an iPhone, but other phones have other vulnerabillities). You do not even have to read the SMS.
31 July 2009
SMS hack
26 July 2009
20 July 2009
Microsoft GPL's Linux device drivers
To allow Linux systems to run well on top of Windows virtualisation technology Microsoft has GPL'd the necessary device drivers.
Although this is a move to sell more Windows servers, the mere fact that Microsoft GPL's code is significant. Micorsoft used to call GPL's copyleft a virus , because it states that GPL code can only be used in code that is also GPL'd.
9 July 2009
5 July 2009
11 June 2009
Stop asian youth pr0n
China will join the Belgian government in the struggle against porn.
All PC's sold in China will have to be shipped with "youth escort" (!?) software that will filter out pornographic websites.
It is known that the Great Firewall of China concentrates on filtering politically sensitive content,
so the motives behind this move are questionnable.
6 June 2009
Firefox plugin: split browser
Allows yout to have a Norton commander like multi pane browser. Handy when you're having to work on one page with data from another page.
I'm still missing tabs in the other panes, but otherwise another great firefox plugin.
Warning: does not interact well with firebug's split screens.
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