alphaxion

"What is worrying Russia? Why is the country convinced that it is the victim of a campaign to make it look bad? President Dmitry Medvedev recently announced the setting up of a commission to counter the falsification of history. He said this was becoming increasingly "severe, evil, and aggressive"." - alphaxion from Bookmarklet

This is quite disturbing. I mean, it is true that the key moment in WW2 was Hitler turning on Russia and them defecting to the Allied side - without the Russians, Germany would have won that war or at the very least dragged it out to a bloody stalemate. However, this doesn't change the fact that the Russian forces were responsible for some attrocities, and not just on the nations... more... - alphaxion

"Microsoft has once again denied rumours that it built a backdoor into Windows 7. Long standing conspiracy theories that Redmond outfits Windows with a covert entry point for law enforcement resurfaced after a senior National Security Agency (NSA) official told Congress it had worked with Redmond on the operating system." - alphaxion from Bookmarklet

Of course, with a hardware firewall (such as your adsl/cable router), there'd be no point in a backdoor since they couldn't get onto your machine anyway. I hate it when idiots with no clue as to how networking works try to claim shit like this. - alphaxion

"While chief technology officer Ray Ozzie was away in the clouds at Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference, technical fellow Mark Russinovich got down and dirty with the true heart of Windows - the kernel." - alphaxion from Bookmarklet

thought I'd scribble a little more based on my initial comment. - alphaxion

"Apple has filed a patent application for an intrusive ad-presentation system that requires users to acknowledge adverts before getting on with their work. The recent patent filing carries the unusually straightforward title "Advertisement in Operating System." The described system would be buried deep in a device's OS - so deep that, in the words of the filing, "the advertisement presentation can in effect 'take over the system' in relevant aspects for a limited time."" - alphaxion from Bookmarklet

this is a *very* dangerous patent. I hope it's not gonna be used the way I think it is. - alphaxion

"A Turkish grad student has devised a serious, real-world attack on Twitter that targeted a recently discovered vulnerability in the secure sockets layer protocol. The exploit by Anil Kurmus is significant because it successfully targeted the so-called SSL renegotiation bug to steal Twitter login credentials that passed through encrypted data streams. When the flaw surfaced last week, many researchers dismissed it as an esoteric curiosity with little practical effect." - alphaxion from Bookmarklet

apparently, the hole has been plugged already. - alphaxion

"A longtime Mac developer has walked away from the iPhone App Store after Apple's app police spent three months deciding to reject the developer's application for using Apple images meant specifically for developers." - alphaxion from Bookmarklet