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Yearly Archives: 2004

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News.com: The number of phishing attacks launched each month has increased nearly 10-fold this year, tech security company MessageLabs said Monday.

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Handtops.com: While a WiFi Finder / Seeker won’t make a connection out of thin air, it will conveniently tell you whether there is a WiFi network in the area.

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Register: Last week Privacy International and the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) published this year’s edition of their Annual Global Privacy Study. The 800 page report, available free here, covers the state of privacy in 60 countries, and concludes that threats to personal privacy have now reached a level dangerous to fundamental human rights. Yahoo: [...]

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AP: A Web site that sells photos of naked women is suing Google Inc., alleging that the online search engine leader is destroying its business by distributing links and passwords that provide free glimpses of the nude models.

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NYT: Writers and computers nowadays are locked in such an enduringly dysfunctional embrace that it can be hard to tell us apart. Infoworld: A technology that could transform wireless communications got a boost on Friday when the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced its first approval of a software-defined radio. WinPlanet: How many passwords do [...]

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Sorry everybody!

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NYT: PROJECT GUTENBERG, the volunteer effort to put the world’s literature online, may be the latest victim in the Internet battle over copyright.

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WebWereld: Printers voegen een unieke verborgen code toe aan afdrukken. Opsporingsdiensten wereldwijd gebruiken deze code om vervalsers op te sporen.

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Erik van Heeswijk: “… sinds de kaalslag die de IT-sector heeft ondergaan staat die nobele houding bij de serieuze online media onder druk. Overleven is soms net even iets belangrijker”.

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Tom Liston: “And there I stood: alone in the dark, unknown terrors approaching, armed only with a bucket of water. Which is, curiously enough, almost exactly the position that Windows users find themselves in today: alone in the dark, unknown terrors approaching, but in their case, having a bucket of water would be an improvement.”