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Monthly Archives: april 2002

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maandag, april 29, 2002

Slashdot: SETI@Home, the largest distributed computing project in the world, is on the verge of receiving its 500 millionth result. Scripting News: What email has become. 2/3 spam. 1/5 viruses. A bunch of ad hominems, sprinkled with a few interesting messages.

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vrijdag, april 26, 2002

Wired: Chew on this: All an attacker needs to gain access to your MSN Hotmail account is to capture your browser cookies file. C-Net: The record companies had their Napster, and the stream of file-swapping companies that followed. The file-swapping companies now have their “Dr. Damn.” Newsbytes: Calling the tactic “malware at its worst,” Lavasoft [...]

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dinsdag, april 16, 2002

NYT: Rapid advances in technology have brought an array of sensors, vehicles and weapons that can be operated by remote control or are totally autonomous.

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maandag, april 15, 2002

Register: Children as young as 11 have been threatened online either in chat rooms or by menacing text messages, according to a survey by children

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donderdag, april 11, 2002

The Computer History Simulation Project is a loose Internet-based collective of people interested in restoring historically significant computer hardware and software systems by simulation. The goal of the project is to create highly portable system simulators and to publish them as freeware on the Internet, with freely available copies of significant or representative software. NYT: [...]

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dinsdag, april 9, 2002

NYT: The idea seemed simple: figure out who the good guys are, give them easy-to-recognize and hard-to-counterfeit ID cards and let them breeze past airport security. C-Net: In some cases, people are not even asked whether they want the software. It just installs on the hard drive–a particularly troublesome tactic that some have dubbed “drive-by [...]

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