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Everything old is new
Form art lives.
All the noise that’s fit to block
The fffffine people at fffff.at conjure up one of the most useful media-analysis tools since the I/O/D’s Webstalker: Ctrl+F’d. The NYT, ctrl-f’d: Feature request:
Absolute power shuts off absolutely
El Reg: New electricity meters being rolled out to millions of homes and businesses are riddled with security bugs that could bring down the power grid [...]. The so-called smart meters for the first time provide two-way communications between electricity users and the power plants that serve them. Prodded by billions of dollars from President [...]
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Noted in passing
http://www.schneier.com/down.html:
Digital futures
Avsim maintainer quoted by the Beeb: “Some have asked whether or not we had back-ups. Yes, we dutifully backed up our servers every day. Unfortunately, we backed up the servers between our two servers. The hacker took out both servers, destroying our ability to use one or the other back-up to remedy the situation.” The [...]
“Satellite abuse”
WiReD says Brazillians are using “high-performance antennas and homebrew gear to turn U.S. Navy satellites into their personal CB radios.” <cane-wave>Not like the good old days when equating something with CD radio meant it was boring.</cane-wave>
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Untitled
David McLeish at Square Root of Minus G*rf**ld: (“But… but… you just can’t do that.” “Oh yes you can.”) (aag@s-t)
gwikxcel
Google Operating System writes: Google Spreadsheets added an option in the sharing dialog that allows anyone to view or edit the spreadsheet just by knowing the URL. Until now, you had to send an invitation URL that contained a secret code and the people you invited had to login using a Google account. If you [...]
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