Sexy Jihad

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 […]