Here is more detail on the attack:

Smartcard access

The rst one is that it creates a new thread with a keylogger routine. The code is very basic, it stores the window name and the keys pressed under a le named MSF5F0.dat on an unencrypted format, example:

Title:Internet Explorer
www.google.es
Title:My Computer

It uses the WIN32 APIs functions [GetKeyState, GetAsyncKeyState, GetForegroundWindow, GetWindowTextA].

The US patent system is totally broken.

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"The real question here is, how is Android profiting from Microsoft's R&D? Maybe it would help if Microsoft ever actually said which patents were being violated, and how. Have they?

The answer to that being NOT AT ALL, which is why Microsoft won't sue Google directly. Instead engages in a campaigh of EXTORTION against its customer base.

"We discover that remote exploitation is feasible via a broad range of attack vectors"

I don't think so .. Just don't run remote code on your car ...

"Given good content to work with, any programmer could figure out how to make it beautiful using LaTeX .. However there isn't a mature, standardized workflow to get from LaTeX to epub", infernalC

"The second talk came from Andrew Ford, who focussed on converting a LaTeX book to ePub format, using the example of his wife’s cookbook of vegetarian recipes. Andrew explained that the ePub format is a combination of XHTML and CSS, and that LaTeXML has allowed a relatively painless conversion process. Looking beyond ePub, conversion to Kindle format (which unlike ePub is closed)."

Microsoft "invests" $150 million and in return gets Apple to drop patent infringement lawsuits and make Internet Explorer the default browser :)

"Microsoft, in its infinite wisdom, will provide push-button Reset and Refresh in Windows 8"

You mean like Lenovo One Button Restore

"Windows 8 will include a new tool called recimg.exe, which allows you to create a hard drive image that Refresh will use"

You mean similar to CloneZilla?

I'm not on XP, I've been totally on Linux for ages, except in my `enterprise' where I'm forced to use XP ( for security and compliance ) under pain of sanction (yea I know:)). They won't be upgrading in the near future because of budgeting cuts.

'Enterprises don't want to run an OS when there's no security fixes,' says .. Gartner Research`

I find it highly ironic that the only way a company can ethuse people to upgrade is by drawing attention to XPees defects.

Only if certain vested interesteds would like it so. If such it would be a disaster for the ecosysten .. er ... monoculture. It will be good for the people who develop these "open APIs", but not so good for the rest of us.

'So much of their life is hidden under a bushel because they don't discuss things, they don't divulge what they know'

Or in a lot of cases, they don't divulge what they don't know. For instance a "Network Engineer" consultant who can't figure out why gmail keeps timing out on Citrix clients running virtual Windows desktops ..

Well DOH, it's called EVOLUTION by NATURAL SELECTION. You bump off 90% of a population and the remaining repopulate the ecosystem only with increased resistance. And as a side effect the resistant genes migrate into other species ...

Lubuntu is tops ...