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Submission + - Captain Cyborg is back! Kevin Warwick predicts the future.

Submitted by richi on Monday September 30, 2013 @10:19PM

richi writes: Kevin Warwick: His name raises extremes of opinion.

For more than a decade, this highly controversial cybernetics professor has been making waves. His high-profile experiments—and even higher-profile claim that he’s the first living cyborg—earned him column inches and unflattering nicknames.

In this Forbes interview, "Captain Cyborg" talks about exploding motorcycles, wireless power, and fish'n'chips.

Submission + - Carbonite privacy breach leads to spam (computerworld.com)

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richi

on Wednesday November 02, 2011 @02:17PM

richi writes: "It looks like Carbonite, Inc. has been giving out customers' personal information. The company's admitted giving customer email address to a third party, in direct contravention of its privacy policy.

Lest we forget, this is the same online backup company that lost the backups of thousands of its customers, while denying any data were lost, despite reports from customers who said they had (ahem) lost data. It's also the company whose VP of marketing was caught red-handed astroturfing on Amazon, along with other Carbonite employees. When the news broke, the company denied it had sanctioned the phony reviews.

So I guess this is Strike Three, right?"

Submission + - Should ISPs cut off bot-infected users? (computerworld.com) 1

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richi

on Tuesday October 05, 2010 @02:57PM

richi writes: "There's no doubt that botnets are a major threat to the safety and stability of the internet — not to mention the cleanliness of your inbox. After years of failure to act, could we finally be seeing ISPs waking up to their responsibilities? While ISPs can't prevent users getting infected with bots, they are in a superb position to detect the signs of infection. Contractually, the ISP would be reasonably justified in cutting off a user from the internet, as bot infection would be contrary to the terms of the ISP's acceptable-use policy.

However, the main counter-argument is that consumer ISPs operate on razor-thin margins. Perhaps there's light at the end of the tunnel. After last week's news that Comcast is warning customers found to be infected, today, Microsoft's Scott Charney spoke at the International Security Solutions Europe Conference in Berlin, Germany, advocating bot detection and remediation.

Is this an idea who's time has come?"

Submission + - Horrible Safari privacy bug (computerworld.com)

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richi

on Thursday July 22, 2010 @11:33AM

richi writes: "If you use Safari, your browser may be leaking your private information to any website you visit. Jeremiah Grossman, the CTO of WhiteHat Security, has discovered some Very Bad News. I have some analysis and other reactions over at my Computerworld blog. The potential for spam and phishing is huge. A determined attacker might even be able to steal previously-entered customer data. There's even scope for blackmail."

Submission + - 9/11 made us safer, says Bruce Schneier (computerworld.com)

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richi

on Friday May 07, 2010 @11:32AM

richi writes: "Security guru and BT CTO Bruce Schneier discusses terrorist attacks. In fact, Bruce seems to be saying that 9/11 actually made us safer from terrorists, which seems like a curious argument. While Bruce's blog post is interesting and no-doubt insightful, I'm not sure I really buy it. And what's the deal with the new rules for searching the TSA No Fly List? Why is it, in 2010, we're still mucking about with publishing database extracts and waiting hours for them to be searched? How about checking within seconds of an update? Couldn't, someone volunteer to show them how to implement a reliable, scalable, NoSQL setup? Instead, the TSA plan to fix this is a classic 'big government' solution..."

Submission + - 15 Things Apple Should Change in Mac OS X

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richi

on Friday December 15, 2006 @09:11AM

richi writes: "Two of Computerworld's top operating systems editors, a Mac expert and a Windows expert, compare notes on what Apple should reconsider as it develops Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. Mac OS X 10.4, or Tiger, is a noticeably better operating system than XP or Vista. But it's not perfect. OS X has its own quirks and flaws, little irritants made all the more irritating by the fact that they come out of Cupertino, which should know better."

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