Today, ImageShack was hacked by some anonymous children seeking to get their manifesto out there. If nothing else, it does a good job of showing off that the differently-abled can still master basic computer security tools ( Read more... )

We all hate 9/11 "Truthers". Their conspiracy theory illogic and furious ranting is insulting, annoying, and generally devoid of anything resembling value. But this post isn't really about them.

It's about the US torture ships that we're just starting to find out about. Floating prisons involved in extraordinary rendition. The information this far ( Read more... )

CCTV cameras remain a waste of money for stopping crime on the streets.

Hundreds of thousands of Web sites - including several at the United Nations and in the U.K. government -- have been hacked recently and seeded with code that tries to exploit security flaws in Microsoft Windows to install malicious software on visitors' machines.

Baaalmer! You gots some 'splainin' to do.

"If you don't publish your findings, you're not doing science, you're doing alchemy and every alchemist had to discover for himself- the hard way- that drinking mercury was a bad idea." - Cory Doctorow (paraphrased from others)

This quote was, in specific, about the TSA and airport security. It is, however, also applicable in countless other

I just received an email claiming to be from Washington Mutual Online, doing the standard "you need to log in". Instead of giving me a domain name made to look like one that could possibly be for a banking firm, the phisher supplied a case number: "0xD2.0x8D.0xDF.0x4B". They then used that case number in the URL, like so: "0xD2.0x8D.0xDF.0x4B/ ( Read more... )