Friday, 12. June 2009

The 6 Best 2012 Apocalypse Theories (Are All Bullshit)


You may have noticed a recent trend of trying to fit every hackneyed doomsday prophecy into the same red-letter year of 2012. The theories are obtuse, their connections are flimsy and the perceived consequences are completely unsubstantiated.

Unsurprisingly, these prophecies are enormously popular.

cracked.com

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Free Anonymous BitTorrent Becomes Reality With BitBlinder


There can be little doubt that the provision of an effective and free service for BitTorrent anonymity would prove hugely popular. Today we bring you a detailed report on BitBlinder - a brand new open source project which promises to cloak your torrents, hide your browsing and get round many obstructive filters.

torrentfreak.com

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New Exploit Uses JavaScript To Compromise Intranets, VPNs


Security researcher Robert Hansen, known as Rsnake, has developed a new class of attack that abuses a weakness in many corporate intranets and most browsers to compromise remote machines with persistent JavaScript backdoors. Threatpost reports: 'The attacks rely on the long-term caching policies of some browsers and take advantage of the collisions that can occur when two different networks use the same non-routable IP address space, which happens fairly often because the amount of address space is quite small. The bottom line is that even a moderately skilled attacker has the ability to compromise remote machines without the use of any vulnerability or weakness in the client software.'

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Bonnaroo Weekend Forecast: Severe Thunderstorms, Mud, Fewer 'Shrooms... Even The Ones Baked Into Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups


Nearly 35 pounds of Psilocybin (hallucinogenic) mushrooms baked into about 500 chocolate peanut butter cups were intercepted by Murfreesboro Police vice detectives before being sold at Bonnaroo music festival beginning Thursday in Manchester.

Shrooms bound for Bonnaroo seized in Murfreesboro

murfreesboropost.com

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