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MySpace Photos Leaked; Payback for Not Fixing Flaw?

Posted Monday January 28, 2008, 3:33 am, Over one day old

A YouTube video showed how to use the bug to retrieve private profile photos. Smart companies react constructively: they’re not happy about the flaws or the subsequent PR fallout, but they acknowledge the truth and work in their customers’ interest to fix problems promptly.

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New $2B Dutch Transport Card is Insecure

Posted Monday January 21, 2008, 3:33 am, Over one day old

The reusable plastic card, Mifare Classic, uses more sophisticated technologies. The plastic Mifare Classic card does use cryptography: legitimate cards contain secret keys that they use to authenticate themselves to readers. Mifare Classic was designed to use a secret encryption algorithm.

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Could Use-Based Broadband Pricing Help the Net Neutrality Debate?

Posted Thursday January 17, 2008, 3:32 am, Over one day old

In confirming its plans to Reuters, Time Warner pointed out that its heaviest-using five percent of customers generate the majority of data traffic on the network, but still pay as though they were typical users.

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Clinton?s Digital Policy

Posted Monday January 14, 2008, 3:33 am, Over one day old

(See our first post, about Obama ). You know, I said the other night at an event in New Hampshire, I want to have as much information about the way our government operates on the Internet so the people who pay for it, the taxpayers of America, can see that.

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Second Life Welcomes Bank Regulators

Posted Friday January 11, 2008, 3:32 am, Over one day old

Linden Lab, the company that runs the popular virtual world Second Life, announced Tuesday that all in-world “banks” must now be registered with real-world banking regulators: As these activities grow, they become more likely to lead to destabilization of the virtual economy.

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Scoble/Facebook Incident: It?s Not About Data Ownership

Posted Tuesday January 8, 2008, 3:32 am, Over one day old

Facebook has an interest in how its computer systems are used, but Scoble and Aase also have an interest in being able to access Facebook’s systems. Even you and I have an interest here, though probably not so strong as the others, in knowing whether Scoble and Aase are Facebook-friends.

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2008 Predictions

Posted Monday January 7, 2008, 3:33 am, Over one day old

Baby steps toward a deal between the infotech and biotech industries won’t lead anywhere. (5) The 2008 elections will not see an e-voting meltdown of Florida 2000 proportions, but a bevy of smaller problems will be reported, further fueling the trend toward reform.

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New York Times Magazine on e-voting

Posted Sunday January 6, 2008, 3:29 am, Over one day old

If you do any sort of statistical projection to replace even a fraction of those undervotes with the observed ratios of cast votes, then the Congressional race would have had a different winner. [I worked as an expert for the Jennings campaign in the Sarasota case.

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2007 Predictions Scorecard

Posted Wednesday January 2, 2008, 3:32 am, Over one day old

As usual, we?ll start the new year by reviewing the predictions we made for the previous year. Here now, our 2007 predictions, in italics, with hindsight in ordinary type. (1) DRM technology will still fail to prevent widespread infringement. We predict this every year, and it?s always right.

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Three Down, One to Go: Warner Music to Sell MP3s

Posted Monday December 31, 2007, 3:31 am, Over one day old

The two other majors that sell MP3s are split on this point, with EMI selling MP3s through multiple stores including iTunes, and Universal Music selling MP3s through other online stores but refusing to do so through iTunes.

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