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Yearly Archives: 2007

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donderdag, december 20, 2007

Schneier: The point of the research was to demonstrate how little information is required to de-anonymize information in the Netflix dataset. Anonieme gegevens kunnen soms vrij eenvoudig opnieuw worden gepersonaliseerd. Misschien iets om aan te denken wanneer u de volgende keer uw getrouwheidskaart in de supermarkt gebruikt… Google vertaalt IM conversaties in echte tijd. Hoe [...]

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vrijdag, december 14, 2007

BBC News: A Canadian man has been shocked to receive a mobile phone bill for nearly $85,000 (£41,000). Een duidelijkere illustratie van de absurd hoge kosten voor mobiele dataverbindingen is moeilijk te vinden.

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donderdag, december 13, 2007

Rockdale Citizen: Officers with the Conyers Police Department will be on foot patrol in the parking lots of major shopping areas in the city over the next couple of weeks. They will place yellow tickets on vehicles with packages or boxes of merchandise that are visible on the seats or floorboards of cars; in other [...]

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dinsdag, december 11, 2007

Coding Horror: Ticketmaster’s problem is that their CAPTCHA is not good enough. Programmers don’t seem to understand what makes a CAPTCHA difficult to “break”. But it’s not difficult to find out. Heck, the hackers themselves will tell you how to do CAPTCHA correctly if you just know where to look. Toilet Horror: Man trapped in [...]

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dinsdag, november 20, 2007

BBC News: For the first time in more than 60 years a Colossus computer is cracking codes at Bletchley Park. Een niet zo heel moderne pc is echter sneller. Raar verhaal. En de man wordt dan nog gearresteerd ook door de Zweedse politie. Voor wat?

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woensdag, november 7, 2007

BBC News: A virtual stripper is helping to defeat anti-spam security checks. Slim… daar gaat de captcha! Schneier: We’ve opened up a new front on the war on terror. It’s an attack on the unique, the unorthodox, the unexpected; it’s a war on different.

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vrijdag, oktober 12, 2007

De Consumentenbond roept consumenten op bij de aanschaf van een nieuwe computer expliciet te vragen om het besturingssysteem Windows XP.Als bedrijven voor XP mogen kiezen dan mogen particulieren dat ook, zo redeneert de Nederlandse tegenhanger van TestAankoop. Microsoft heeft “geen commentaar”.

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maandag, september 17, 2007

eWeek.com: De Grote Chinese Internetmuur is een panopticon.

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maandag, september 3, 2007

Art Wittmann (InformationWeek): Data centers used 61 billion kilowatt-hours in 2006, or 1.5% of all power consumed in the United States. The cost: $4.5 billion, or about as much as was spent by 5.8 million average households. Of the total consumption, the feds sucked up about 10% of that power. In 2008, notebooks get bigger, [...]

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donderdag, juli 26, 2007

Schneier: Remember, despite what you read about nuclear accidents, suicide terrorism, genetically engineered viruses and mutant man-eating badgers, you live in the safest society in the history of mankind.

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