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Comment Barcelona has the same thing since many years. (Score 1) 146

by cboneti on Sunday June 22, 2008 @04:59AM (#23892607) Attached to: Montreal's Public Bikes To Use Web, RFID, Solar

Check in www.bicing.com. Pretty cool, pretty functional. I'm a happy user since more then 13 months... :)

Antivirus Inventor Says Security Pros Are Wasting Time 282

Posted by Zonk on Thursday February 07, 2008 @01:04PM from the think-outside-the-para-digum dept.

talkinsecurity writes "Earlier this week Peter Tippett, chief scientist at the ICSA and the inventor of the progam that became Norton Antivirus, had some interesting things to say about the state of the security industry. In a nutshell, Tippett warned that about a third of the work that security departments do today is a waste of time. Tippett goes on to systematically blow holes in a lot of security's current best practices, including vulnerability research/patching, strong passwords, and the product evaluation process. 'If a hacker breaks into the password files of a corporation with 10,000 machines, he only needs to guess one password to penetrate the network, Tippett notes. "In that case, the long passwords might mean that he can only crack 2,000 of the passwords instead of 5,000," he said. "But what did you really gain by implementing them? He only needed one."' Some of his arguments are definitely debatable, but there is a lot of truth to what he's saying as well."

How To Make Your Friends Call You More 233

Posted by kdawson on Sunday October 29, 2006 @06:26PM from the not-funny-mcgee dept.

B0bReader writes, "Simply sign up to something called jajah (a VOIP service that connects real telephones) using your friend's number (mobiles included), then log in and dial your own number. Your friend's phone will ring and after they hear a brief 'Jajah is connecting your call' they will be calling you and incur all charges. As an added bonus you will quite probably receive your friend's latest voice-mail message as your own (at least on Irish networks), which you may or may not wish to hear. There is even a Jajah Firefox extension — which at the time of writing is the Firefox featured add-on — so you can do it right from your browser. This is about the best example of a bad idea, with terrible implementation, that I have seen all day. And with the wonderful publicity the Firefox page offers it should reach a wide audience in no time."

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