Category: Security
Macworld – The App Culture
This was the largest fear with Lion, and Apple has yet to respond in a way that alleviates people’s fears for such apps that need a higher level of access that it appears that Apple will allow.
NPR – OnStar Hits Reverse: It Won’t Keep Collecting Data From Old Customers
OnStar however still hasn’t changed it’s mind about selling data it collects from current customers at some point.
Ars Technica – Three Senators condemn OnStar for tracking former customers
Glad I don’t own a vehicle with OnStar installed. It’s more than a little sleazy to collect and sell information from former customers.
PCMag – Google Patches Flash Zero Day Bug, Jumps the Gun on Adobe Again
The bad habit isn’t Google patching security holes it’s Adobe not patching them first.
Ars Technica – Hackers turn MySQL.com into malware launchpad
What the heck is Oracle doing with MySQL?
Mark Story – Using bcrypt for passwords in CakePHP
Awesome, I tried doing this in CakePHP 1.3 a few weeks ago but couldn’t get it to work right all the time.
Scripting News – Facebook is scaring me
Count me in the group of people now staying logged out of Facebook by default.
Freedom to Tinker – NJ election cover-up
Just plain scary a whole election result considered null and void, no idea what happened, who to blame or how to fix the problem.
Read Write Web – How’s Mozilla Doing with Do Not Track? Not So Good
Do Not Track, is a nice idea but not much more than that.
Electronic Frontier Foundation – Open WiFi and Liability for Copyright Infringement: Setting the Record Straight
The line about “online debates” had me giggling.