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Monthly Archives: december 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 ver zijn [...]

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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 words, vehicles
that are [...]

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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 bowling club toilet for [...]

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