Sexy Jihad

According to this article on Wired hotel IT security is apalling in general. An Excerpt:
A vulnerability in many hotel television infrared systems can allow a hacker to obtain guests’ names and their room numbers from the billing system.
It can also let someone read the e-mail of guests who use web mail through the TV, putting […]

It seems that if you’re lucky and buy 2nd hand computer equipment from you local goverment, you may get more than you bargained for:
Early last week eighteen IBM RS/6000 E20 servers went up for sale at an government auction for ~$20 AUD a server, anyway after a couple days they were delivered and I began […]

Kuro5hin has an excellent piece where they analyze how the corporate media works in the US:
Thus we have a system that encourages lowest common denominator stories that appeal to the Jerry Springer in all of us, stories about missing teens in Aruba that we can all get concerned about. This is also why we don’t […]

Bruce Schneier has written a disturbing piece on how your cellphone could literally give out all sorts of information about your life to dataminers:
Eagle’s Realty Mining project logged 350,000 hours of data over nine months about the location, proximity, activity and communication of volunteers, and was quickly able to guess whether two people were friends […]

Some dude has written a HOWTO on making your own small portable wardriving box with Soekris / WRAP & OpenBSD:
it’s very easy, but this is not a step by step HOWTO, only a guide to build your own box. To start, you need a small up and running OpenBSD System on an Intel based System. […]

Microsoft has barred one of its ex executives from working at Google, so says C|Net:
A judge has temporarily barred a former Microsoft executive hired by Google from performing any duties at the search giant similar to those he performed at Microsoft.
Washington state Superior Court Judge Steven Gonzalez on Thursday granted Microsoft’s request for a […]

Seeing Google is 10 years old now Wired has written a piece on it’s inception with some interesting tidbits of information:
It began with an argument. When he first met Larry Page in the summer of 1995, Sergey Brin was a second-year grad student in the computer science department at Stanford University. Gregarious by nature, Brin […]

It’s now possible for the mega rich to burn some of that dough by taking a trip to the moon:
Russia’s federal space agency took a giant leap in the field of cosmic tourism yesterday with the announcement it will offer a $100m (£57m) trip to the moon.
Roskosmos leaked details of the project as Nasa’s space […]

IBM Developerworks has an interesting article on the differences between IE and Mozilla, and things you should take note of when porting/creating web apps:
Ever have trouble getting your Internet Explorer-specific Web applications to work with Mozilla? This article covers common issues associated with migrating applications to the open source Mozilla-based browser. […]

It seems those pesky Japs have done it again. This time they’ve developed the most realistic android to date:
Japanese scientists have unveiled the most human-looking robot yet devised - a “female” android called Repliee Q1.
She has flexible silicone for skin rather than hard plastic, and a number of sensors and motors to allow her to […]