Security
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Warning Added to Library Borrowed Kindle Ebooks
As previously noted, you can borrows ebooks from the library for the Kindle reader or Kindle apps. You can even cleverly extend the due date on a borrowed Kindle ebook. So it’s about…
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FaceBook and Privacy
There’s a lot to like about social network services and sites, at least when they let you choose what you want to share, and who you want to share it with. FaceBook has…
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Turnitin Sued
My friend Dawno alerted me to this story about anti-plagiarism service Turnitin.com being sued for copyright violation by four students. Turnitin is a service contracted by universities and schools. Faculty submit student papers…
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Death Threats are Not OK
Blogger and UI expert, Kathy Sierra, had to cancel her talk at the Etech conference, because of really really nasty death threats, and threats of sexual assault. You can read about it here.…
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CAPTCHA and the Non-Standard User
In the last year or so a number of sites that offer a service or interact with readers via comments have started using images as a way to authenticate users as living people…
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MacInTouch on CMS
There’s what looks like a very useful discussion of CMSs on Macintouch. It’s mostly written from a Mac OS X perspective, but many of the points are platform agnostic.
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An Old Virus But Still Nasty
I’ve finally seen my first potentially believable e-mail Trojan. This is one that’s been around a long time; I’ve just never gotten this particular e-mail. The payload is a .zip file containing W32.Netsky.P@mm.…
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A “Friendly Critic” is only Helpful if the Critic is Informed
According to Oren Sreebny Dr. Gregory Jackson has resigned from Apple’s University Executive Forum, because of remarks he made in the Chronicle of Higher Education’s “Colloquy.” You can see my original post here…
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Potential ID3 Tag Vulnerability MP3Concept
Intego, makers of a Macintosh OS X anti-virus product called Virus Barrier, yesterday announced that they’d “discovered” a Mac Trojan horse. I, like Dori, am a little suspicious. For one thing, the language…