And how will the death of Google Buzz effect Google Reader, which is pretty tightly integrated with Buzz? I didn't see any corresponding announcement of Reader integrating better with G+.
- Dan Wallach
The article seems to imply that we're looking at garden-variety malware, not a Stuxnet-esque nation-state attack, but details are thin and the Air Force isn't saying much.
- Dan Wallach
This morning, NPR ran a piece on a new book of Shel Silverstein poems. The winner was "Italian Food", as read by Toni Markiet (editor of the collection). Scroll down to the bottom of the article, where the poem is reprinted, and read it aloud. This brought me right back to my own childhood, reading other Silverstein books.
- Dan Wallach
I've been pondering this very attack for a while now. Nice to see somebody's done it. At least on Android, you can set your USB to "charge only" which should defend you against this attack.
- Dan Wallach
A clever and short history of the American and Russian space programs' need for wristwatches and how they got what they got. I hadn't heard the Russian side of the story before.
- Dan Wallach