Google is being sued by Northeastern and a company called Jarg out of Massachusetts. I actually had heard a bit about Jarg previously. Kenneth Baclawski was one of my professors at Northeastern. In fact he was one of the best professors I had when I studied at Northeastern University. I remember him telling me about Jarg way […]
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Microsoft is claiming that Open Source software violates 235 of its patents. The article says that Microsoft is claiming that the Linux kernel violates 42 of Microsoft’s patents, and the user interface violates 65. I guess Microsoft has come a long way since they stole the look and feel of Lotus 123. Microsoft is certainly […]
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A group called Project Honey Pot has leveled a lawsuit against a number of spammers on behalf of their clients. The way this works is you set up an email address or an entire domain as a honey-pot on your system which catches spam and relays it to their servers. The honey-pot analogy comes from putting […]
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Apple Macbook hacked at a security event. I had read about this contest, they were giving away a couple of MacBooks if you could hack one. They called it amusingly “PWN to Own.” PWN being a hacker word that means to own or to take control of something (anything really). Â
It took the security about 9 hours to write […]
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I have wondered what it is like to not have the Internet. I have been ‘online’ in one way or another since I was 7 years old. This is no small feat considering I was 7 in 1984. My mother even uses a computer hooked up to the Internet. My father on the other hand […]
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This seems almost too over simplified. But the truth is, most of the techies I know don’t get spy ware or viruses. Why? Not because we are immune, but because we don’t go to the types of sites that will get you infected. It’s quite comical to see the faces, or hear the voices of […]
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The Internet is not safe! It’s true there are a lot of benefits to be gained from using a computer. Many of those benefits today are found online, on the Internet. The problem is, there are also many bad things you can get on a computer. Most of those bad things are found on the […]
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This blog is a professional blog, about the things that I find interesting. It will tend towards things that are technical by nature. Computing, Security, Science among others. I decided to start a professional blog for a few reasons. I have seen more and more businesses and professionals providing more serious content in the form […]
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