Topic: COMPUTER - on August 22, 2007 at 2:23:00 PM CEST
Hewlett-Packard (HP) Garage, Birthplace of Silicon Valley
Last Sunday at BarCampBlock, Robert Scoble talked Hewlett-Packard into opening up the famous HP garage, where Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard started HP in 1939, which is located just a few blocks away from the BarCamp event was held in Palo Alto.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on August 21, 2007 at 2:41:00 PM CEST
Real time location systems are the new buzz in RFID
A new acronym is being banded around the RFID world - that of RTLS. What is a real time location system (RTLS)?
The simplest definition I have come across is that it is a system of finding the position of assets using active RFID tags. The tags broadcast a signal, which is received by three reader antennas. The time each signal is received is passed on to a software system that uses triangulation to calculate the location of the asset.
At the beginning of August I had a briefing with Josh Slobin, director of marketing at AeroScout, one of the pioneers in RTLS.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on August 18, 2007 at 10:53:00 AM CEST
Escape attempt
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Topic: COMPUTER - on August 17, 2007 at 9:31:00 PM CEST
......…Frank loves USB?
Instead of making a chicken dance around by typing in commands, this Frank's Cubicle website has you making Frank play with all his USB gear by clicking on links. It's interesting for a few minutes, especially when you see what he's been looking at with his Spyplane. Makes us wish we had a bunch of USB gadgets to play with ourselves.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on August 17, 2007 at 9:09:00 PM CEST
Universities warned of Storm Worm attacks
Colleges and universities have come under attack by Storm Worm botnets following attempts to detect infections through vulnerability scanning, a response centre for academic networks stated last week.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on August 14, 2007 at 12:42:00 PM CEST
Porn company Perfect 10 sues Microsoft
A publisher of nude model photography is suing Microsoft for putting links and images of the company's content in search results taken from other websites that are illegally reproducing the material.
The company, Perfect 10, previously lost a similar suit seeking injunctions against Google and Amazon.com and its subsidiary search engine, A9.com, over alleged copyright infringement, but Perfect 10 is appealing that decision.
The latest suit, filed in US District Court, Central District of California, alleges that Microsoft's MSN image search feature creates unauthorised thumbnails of content owned by Perfect 10 and includes links to see full-size versions of the images for free.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on August 14, 2007 at 12:37:00 PM CEST
The Terabyte has landed
MAGINE ONE THOUSAND thousand thousand thousand bytes. A terabyte, if you will. But more than just that—a milestone in storage capacity that hard drive manufacturers have been chasing for years. After more than a decade of living in a world of gigabytes, the bar has finally been raised by Hitachi's terabyte-capacity Deskstar 7K1000.
Being first to the terabyte mark gives Hitachi bragging rights, and more importantly, the ability to offer single-drive storage capacity 33% greater than that of its competitors. Hitachi isn't banking on capacity alone, though. The 7K1000 is also outfitted with a whopping 32MB of cache—double what you get with other 3.5" hard drives. Couple that extra cache with 200GB platters that have the highest areal density of any drive on the market, and the 7K1000's performance could impress as much as its capacity.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on August 14, 2007 at 12:25:00 PM CEST
Germany enacts 'anti-hacker' law
Germany has introduced draconian anti-hacker measures that criminalise the creation or possession of dual-use security tools.
An update to the country's computer hacking laws makes denial of service attacks and hacking assaults against individuals clearly criminal. Gaining access to data, without necessarily stealing information, would also become an arrestable offence. The most serious offences are punishable on conviction by up to 10 years' imprisonment.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on August 13, 2007 at 11:38:00 AM CEST
UN's website breached by hackers
Hackers have attacked the United Nations official website, forcing some sections to be taken offline.
Slogans accusing the US and Israel of killing children appeared on the pages reserved for statements from UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on August 11, 2007 at 9:31:00 AM CEST
Fighting chaos with fire
What happens when you mix hackers and fire? No wait, throw in a bar, a bunch of really oldFireplane airplanes, a military bunker turned into a dance club...
Well, you get the idea. Friday late night at the Chaos Communications Camp has its share of folks still sitting in the glow of laptops, and there's a tin-foil hat construction group working in one of the tents nearby. But the real action is under the flaming rhythmic torches.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on August 10, 2007 at 9:26:00 AM CEST
Chaos Communication Camp
The Chaos Communication Camp is an international, five-day open-air event for hackers and associated life-forms. The Camp features two conference tracks with interesting lectures, a workshop-track and over 30 villages providing workshops and gettogethers covering a specific topic.
Chaos Communication Camp 2007 The International Hacker Open Air Gathering 8|9|10|11|12th August 2007 Finowfurt near Berlin, Germany (Old Europe)
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Topic: COMPUTER - on August 6, 2007 at 10:50:00 AM CEST
Hacking for hijinks
This is my second Defcon and there are plenty of high jinks but you'd be hard pressed to find any lawlessness. There was the year the ATMs were reprogrammed to display the Defcon logo. And there's always a lot of drinking and stupid network tricks. But nothing that's actually lawless.
I mean, there's nothing actually illegal about reprogramming your car's engine control unit to tell the garage's computerised emissions testing system that your car is well within the limits, is there? A paltry $100 worth of hardware will open your car right up to reprogramming via a USB port on your PC. Give it a power boost, explained Aaron Higbee, by reflashing the car's firmware. ("I recycle, I promise you.") Though, he warned, care is necessary. ("This is your piston. This is your piston on the wrong commit changes.")
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