Black Economy Mashups
Websense – Trojan does the normal keylogging bit, but also –
On the other hand, it installs a web server on the affected machine which allows the attacker to access that machine every time it is online. To achieve that, he/she has a control panel where he/she can have a full list of all the infected machines including IP address, country, ports he/she can use to access the machine to using different protocols, and even a link to google maps which will exactly point out where that IP is located.
Studio 60
Bah, watched what is probably the last episode of some of the greatest TV to happen in some time. Can’t wait until I’m not dependent on crappy network execs to choose what I can pick to watch.
On Stackable Cars
Treehugger – This kind of thing is cool –
Researchers at MIT are building a prototype of a lightweight electric vehicle that can be cheaply mass-produced, rented by commuters under a shared-use business model, and folded and stacked like grocery carts at subway stations or other central sites.
But can’t work without community commitment, Tax money needs to be pumped into local governments who, theoretically anyway, boost ROI. And that means reworking the current top heavy governance platform to a significant degree.
On A Police State
Joe Conason argues that it can it fact happen here, “it” being the rise of a police state –
The most obvious symptoms can be observed in the regime’s style, which features an almost casual contempt for democratic and lawful norms; an expanding appetite for executive control at the expense of constitutional balances; a reckless impulse to corrupt national institutions with partisan ideology; and an ugly tendency to smear dissent as disloyalty. The most troubling effects are matters of substance, including the suspension of traditional legal rights for certain citizens; the imposition of secrecy and the inhibition of the free flow of information; the extension of domestic spying without legal sanction or warrant; the promotion of torture and other barbaric practices, in defiance of American and international law; and the collusion of government and party with corporate interests and religious fundamentalists.
Blogging To Print
Please tell your friends and colleagues who aren’t blog readers that the “best of” my blog now appears in print.
I don’t get it. Why reproduce blog entries in print? What’s the added value to the magazine? There is a way to turn blogging into print that benefit both the publication and the blogger, this isn’t it.