Tag Archives: Internet

Privacy Severely Exposed by Clueless Physician

| Tuesday, 28 February, 2006

Instead of my habitual ego-surfing session, I was Googling the name of someone I haven’t seen in probably twenty years. One of the few sites I got in return was a link to a binary, untyped file on a typical users.provider/nickname folder. As I didn’t immediately found info on the person (no html pages) I […]

O ironie

| Thursday, 2 February, 2006

Ik probeer mij al een tijdje in te schrijven op de openstandaarden.be lijst. Ooit aan de postmaster het probleem doorgegeven, zoals men kan lezen bij de eerste weigering in de log hieronder. Deze avond eens geprobeerd of er verbetering was. Jammer genoeg niet, en dan maar pragmatisch geweest en het ip van de list server […]

Sony DRM Installs a Rootkit

| Tuesday, 1 November, 2005

For whom still thinks DRM ain’t no problem, slashdot reports how Sony DRM Installs a Rootkit: SysInternals.com guru Mark Russinovich has a detailed investigation of a rootkit from Sony Music. It’s installed with a DRM-encumbered music CD, Van Zant’s “Get Right with the Man”. (Mmmm, delicious irony!) The rootkit introduces several security holes into the […]

Bug Me Not

| Wednesday, 10 August, 2005

Do you know the feeling when you read about an interesting article in your daily rss feed, and you are asked, after clicking through on the link, you get a member login screen?