Penguin-powered mini notebooks are selling like hotcakes. But will they finally bring Linux into the mainstream? Don’t count on it.

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Not only generating private keys using an untrusted third-party, but sending them in the clear over http? Nice. I wonder where all these people are who are clever enough to need an SSH key, but too stupid to type ssh-keygen -t dsa?
I wouldn’t be surprised if this was some minor social engineering attempt; the server [...]

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AVG has rejiggered the fake traffic it’s spewing across the internet, causing new headaches for the world’s webmasters.
In late February, AVG paired its updated anti-virus engine with a real-time malware scanner that vets search engine results before you click on them. If you search Google, for instance, this LinkScanner automatically visits each address that turns [...]

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My mom has been struggling for months trying to figure out what to tell me regarding Britney’s sister. It’s vital to my development as a human being so she has to get it right. Ugh.

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When Mayor Nutter announced late last year that he was hiring D.C. Charles Ramsey as his police commissioner, I said I would keep an open mind but I was dismayed at his treatment of anti-war protesters and his frequent clashes there over civil rights. So far, I’ve been mostly impressed with Ramsey — murders have [...]

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When it comes to security, maybe the end user isn’t always the problem.
That’s the conclusion of a study published today by technology reseller giant CDW Corp. The study notes some paradoxes between IT professionals’ views on their organizations’ security and their actual security status.
For example, when asked if their security systems were easy to use [...]

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SURPRISE, Ariz. — A 97-year-old Surprise woman who has voted in the past 19 presidential elections said she finds herself a casualty in the voter ID battle.
Shirley Preiss cannot register in Arizona for the November elections without proof of citizenship.
“I’m a legal American,” Preiss said. “I’m born here. Born and raised in America.”
The Arizona law [...]

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San Francisco (CA) – Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster has posted another blog article which criticizes eBay for its lawsuit. In the post titled “Kettles and Pots“, Buckmaster outlines what eBay is suing for, namely to stop Craigslist’s poison pill and right of first refusal contract clauses for major shareholders. He also points out [...]

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The cool thing about eBay’s support system is it will always answer your question; unfortunately, that answer will always be a form letter on how to reset your password, as Timothy discovered when he tried to figure out how to sell his laptop to someone who wasn’t a Nigerian scammer. Timothy has discovered the awful [...]

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Click here.
For the unknowing… phpmyadmin is a web-based mysql admin tool. The google query is structured to find installs of phpmyadmin that aren’t password protected. This gives anyone full access to read and modify the database. Also, if the pages were password-protected, Google’s spider wouldn’t have been able to get in to index them in [...]

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Yes this is a long article, but it is well worth the read. Interesting to see an organization not designed to make money, make a lot of money… wait, that’s not even the scary thing, how about the security of the new e-passport? Ugh.
The United States has outsourced the manufacturing of its electronic passports to [...]

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Looks like people in the South-west United States are getting their credit cards skimmed at their local Redbox. In case you forgot what a skimmer is, catch up on our past post about it….
To Our Valued Customers:
A few days ago redbox detected and removed an illegal credit card skimming device at one of [...]

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Check out some of the background stories that have been leading up to this:

Goldman Sachs Creates Private Stock Exchange for Unregistered Securities, Clients with $100 Million Minimum
NASDAQ to Open Unregulated Private Stock Exchange for Investors with a Minimum of $100 Million in Assets
Big Traders Dive Into Dark Pools

In other words, if you thought equities were [...]

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Nipple ring search procedures faulty, TSA admits
LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) — The Transportation Security Administration said Friday its officers at a Texas airport appear to have properly followed procedures when they allegedly forced a woman to remove her nipple rings — one with pliers — but acknowledged the procedures should be changed.Mandi Hamlin, at center [...]

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