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INet: Google adds email sobriety test

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Google has acted to protect its users against a seemingly widespread problem with email: Once you’ve pressed the send button it’s out in the wild. And some times you might have written something you shouldn’t have send to that person.

Seemingly for many this phenomenon occurs more frequently at certain times of the week / day – let’s say late Friday night.

From now on you can setup your Gmail account that at…

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Data Visualization: Internet Censorship

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A great visualization by Good Magazine and the Lifelong Friendship Society on Internet censorship around the world.

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Humor: (Dada) Time Waster web sites (3)

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Another site in the best tradition of the “dadaist nihilistic movement”, this one related to the current doomsday scenarios with the LHC at the Cern in Geneva.

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Humor: Change your nationality with Google Chrome

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Not even out a day as a Beta release Google’s new web browsers already has massive impact on people living in parts of Europe.

If your Belgium, Austrian, Danish, Dutch or from parts of the Czech Republic and Switzerland from now on you’re part of the Greater German Reich. Please send your passport to Google and…

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Google: A Comix to create interest for a new web browser

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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

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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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