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Archive for the 'Software' Category
Google: A Comix to create interest for a new web browser
To gain further interest and introduce new features of its web browser launched today, Google created a comix book about the browser. On 38 pages the comix describes benefits, key scenarios and advantages of the Google Browser in comparison to existing solutions…
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Security: YouTube Hijacking
It’s an issue of the Internet infrastructure well known since at least the 1990s – data / packets can be rerouted to more or less any IP address via the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP, RFC 4271).
BGP is normally used to announce between routers which networks are reachable by which (preferred) routes. And on the Internet all routers trust each other and there are no mechanisms built into the protocol to assure that the counterpart in a communication “does not lie“.
The issue, as said, is not new and known at least to insiders…
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Security: The weakest link
We have been asked a few times for an example to better understand that the security of a system is defined by its weakest link. Well here’s one of our example video for that…
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Software: World Clock Screen-Saver
The World Clock by Simon Heys is an interesting screen-saver for Mac OS X, Windows PCs and the Apple iPhone. Very interesting typography and eye friendly dark background…
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DEFCON: From war-dailing to war-carting
Three MIT students have shown the weaknesses of the Boston and other local transportation systems in the US (and of course got sued instead of learning from it). The image below is a compilation of some of the DEFCON slides from their presentation…
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IT-Terms explained: Cloud computing
In the 10 minutes video below some of the key “figure-heads” of Web 2.0 are being asked to give a short definition of what cloud computing might be.
While some didn’t take the question too serious its quite interesting which benefits others have identified…
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