Opensource phone?
September 18th, 2007 by Futt
A while ago, I invested in a Nokia N95 Smartphone running the Symbian S60 3rd ed. operating system. It’s a great phone, with all the features you expect from a high-end smartphone: 3.5G, A-GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth, 5 megapixel camera, MP3 player, up to 2GB of storage.
Never the less, there are much more interesting things on the horizon, particularly in the Linux based smartphone arena. I’ve been looking at two of the most promising projects, the OpenMoko Neo1973 and the Qtopia Greenphone unit. Read the rest of this entry »
Internal MediaDefender emails leaked
September 16th, 2007 by Futt
Infamous RIAA legal attack dog MediaDefender seems to be in a bit of a pickle, as over 700MB of internal emails have been leaked to the public. And a juicy catch it is! Grab the torrent and read them for yourself - there should be hours and hours of entertainment in there, detailing not only entrapment operations of dubious legality, but also some nice first-hand accounts of MediaDefender screwing over their own customers (the RIAA member labels) and manufacturing statistics.
Among these gems you can also find confidential information such as a spreadsheet complete with names, social security numbers, home addresses and so on for several MediaDefender employees.
According to the source of the leak, the emails were obtained as a MediaDefender employee forwarded all his work email to his private GMail account, then proceeded to register with a torrent community forum using said GMail address, and used the same password (”blahbob”) for his forum account that he had used when registering his GMail account. Genius.
Update: Via Slashdot, Ars Technica has posted the first part of a comprehensive analysis of the leaked material. Good reading!
More Leakage: It’s just not MediaDefender’s week is it. Someone’s gotten hold of their phone call and Gnutella tracking database as well (torrent available here). I don’t think “pwned” even begins to cover it anymore.
Dude! Where’s my Nuke?
September 6th, 2007 by Futt
So, how do you misplace a B52 bomber with a full compliment of live nuclear cruise missiles? Apparently it’s easier than one would think, as a fully loaded B52 flew from Minot ND to Barksdale LA (a three and a half hour flight across several states) on the 30th of august without anyone noticing until it had reached it’s destination.
How you “accidentally” load up a B52 with nukes and take them for a spin around half the continental US is beyond me, one would think that nuclear warheads might be, well locked up somewhere? Guarded? Hm.
Of course, seeing as Barksdale Airforce Base is used as a staging area for middle-east operations, there have been speculations that this was no accident at all, but preparations for a nuclear attack on Iran. The leak may have been intentional (to scare mr. Ahmadinejad) or unintentional (wouldn’t be a first…)
Yet more Mohammed controversy
September 2nd, 2007 by Futt
Apparently it doesn’t take much talent to get the headlines these days - doodle a bit on a napkin and call it “Mohammed as a dog” and you should be all set. Well the Muslims are up in arms anyway, this time over Lars Vilks set of sketches showing the prophet Mohammed as a dog.
It’s entertaining to watch at any rate, might be an opening here - maybe even I can make a name for myself as a controversial artist by jumping on this Mohammed drawing bandwagon!
Blog storm
September 1st, 2007 by Futt
Those of you not currently residing under a rock, may have heard of the Storm worm, a somewhat nasty trojan that’s currently making a mess on the intarwebs. So far it has been spread primarily through email, adding infected hosts to it’s ever growing botnet which experts estimates numbers in the millions of nodes by now. The worm also leaves behind a rootkit.
Well things have taken an interesting turn recently, as it appears the worm has now started spreading through blogs as well. Not through the all too familiar comment spam either, but through blogs created on free blogging networks such as Google’s Blogger.