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Monday, February 11th, 2008
Zvents releases open-source cluster database – LinuxWorld
Looks like someone’s been busy…
Monday, February 11th, 2008
Math Trek: The Grammy in Mathematics, Science News Online, Feb. 9, 2008
Very cool use of technology … It’s amazing what someone can do when they set their minds to it.
Monday, February 11th, 2008
Reuters CEO sees “semantic web” in its future
This is an interesting article on the Semantic Web, and where news feeds appear to be going.
Monday, February 4th, 2008
How one clumsy ship cut off the web for 75 million people | Technology | The Guardian
Wow.
A flotilla of ships may have been dispatched to reinstate the broken submarine cable that has left the Middle East and India struggling to communicate with the rest of the world, but it took just one vessel to inflict the damage that brought down the internet for millions.
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“People just don’t realise that all these things go through undersea cables – that this is the main way these economies are all linked,” said Alan Mauldin, the research director of TeleGeography. “Even when you’re using wireless internet, it’s only really wireless back to your base station: the rest is done over real, physical connections.”
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One expert suggested that this week’s accident should be a “wake-up call” to convince governments that keeping such connections secure should be a higher priority. Officials must spend more time and energy making sure that critical communications such as mobile phones and the net are adequately protected – whether from disaster or a terrorist strike, said Mustafa Alani, head of security and terrorism at the Gulf Research Centre in Dubai.
“This shows how easy it would be to attack,” he said. “When it comes to great technology, it’s not about building it, it’s how to protect it.”
Monday, February 4th, 2008
Slashdot | Yahoo CAPTCHA Hacked
Hell Yeah! reminds us of a 2-week-old development that somehow escaped notice here. A team of Russian hackers has found a way to decipher a Yahoo CAPTCHA, thought to be one of the most difficult, with 35% accuracy. The Russian group’s notice, posted by one “John Wane,” is dated January 16. This site hosts a rapidshare link to what looks to be demonstration software for Windows, and quotes the Russian researchers:
“It’s not necessary to achieve high degree of accuracy when designing automated recognition software. The accuracy of 15% is enough when attacker is able to run 100,000 tries per day, taking into the consideration the price of not automated recognition
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