Craig Burton

 
I understand vendor-speak. When a vendor says “there is an issue” it means
“you caught us” It’s hard to know what it is that will make this issue after
issue after issue end.

Secunia claims second IE 7 flaw
By Robert
McMillan, IDG News Service, 10/25/06

Just one week after claiming that users of Microsoft’s
Internet Explorer 7 browser could be at risk to an [...]

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More proof of the vulnerabilities of RFID. Avoid one if you can. 

RFID
Passports Flawed

According to Wired, ìRFID
chips are passive, and broadcast information to any reader that queries the chip
ó thieves could collect the personal data of people as they walk down a street.î
Now check out a short demonstration of a ìreal‐world vulnerability associated
with the failure of [...]

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 This looks very cool. The last eight track recorder I bought cost 1500 and
was the size of a TV and used analog tape.

BOSS Ships Micro BR Digital Recorder

Press Release

2006-10-28

BOSS is now shipping the new Micro BR Digital Recorder (MSRP $319.50). Meet
the ultimate palmtop guitar companion and recording studio. Only slightly larger
than an iPod, the [...]

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    Sketch search result with Retriever.

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This looks very cool. I wonder what you could sketch and find? I will have to
play with it a bit.
Architecture, faces, bodies, what? 

Searching the Internet for anything with a simple sketch is a
technology that is in itís infancy. Actually getting something useful from the
results is difficult if not impossible. The current offerings of searching [...]

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    As you see by the previous post, embedding a video in Manila doesn’t work.
“Identity Man”
I think  I have to load it as a gem. I will try that here.
OK, creating gem give you a link to the file to download. You will have to download the google video player to view it as it [...]

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    Identity Man charging to the Identity Big Bang.
Well, as you can see, Manila doesn’t support embedding a video. I have to first load the video as a “gem” and then repost. I will try that presently.
“Identity Mann”

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Everybody knew this was coming. What are we thinking? 

Posted Oct 23rd 2006 7:06PM by Cyrus FarivarFiled
under: Misc. Gadgets, Wireless

RFID has been riddled
with so
many
problems,
it’s amazing that anyone
even has a shred of confidence in this technology at all. Our latest security
problem du jour is that credit card companies are apparently
issuing plastic that relays your digits wirelessly; as [...]

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Amazing. The FUD around the browser and vulnerabilities is intense. It takes
a programmer/technologist to really know. The rest is hype. 

Information on Reports of IE 7 Vulnerability
Hi, this is Christopher Budd.

Weíve gotten some questions here today about public reports claiming thereís
a new vulnerability in Internet Explorer 7. This is an issue that we have under
investigation and [...]

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Identity
2.0 º Yahooís Identity Silo

Dick nailed this one. What a yawner of an announcement. Visionaries my
ass. 

Yahoo has joined Googleís silo building by releasing BBAuth, a mechanism for other sites
to access services and data within the world of Yahoo.

Unlike Googleís Account
Authentication, Yahoo is allowing their service to be used for SSO and
registration.

BBAuth is clearly targeted at [...]

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