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Niall Kennedy, Sniff browser history for improved user experience:

“I have been the browser history of my website visitors for the past few months to gracefully enhance adding my Atom feed to their favorite feed reader. Easily recognized branding such as “Add to My Yahoo” has yielded much higher conversion rates than a simple Atom link with a minimal effect on page load performance. Dynamically checking for active usage of 50 or so aggregators allows me to extend my total test list and promote an obscure tool that might never make the cut for permanent on-screen real estate.”

Bruce Schneier, Steal This Wi-Fi:

“Whenever I talk or write about my own security setup, the one thing that surprises people — and attracts the most criticism — is the fact that I run an open wireless network at home. There’s no password. There’s no encryption. Anyone with wireless capability who can see my network can use it to access the internet.

To me, it’s basic politeness. Providing internet access to guests is kind of like providing heat and electricity, or a hot cup of tea. But to some observers, it’s both wrong and dangerous.”

Freakonomics, Bruce Schneier Blazes Through Your Questions:

“Last week, we solicited your questions for Internet security guru Bruce Shneier. He responded in force, taking on nearly every question, and his answers are extraordinarily interesting, providing mandatory reading for anyone who uses a computer. He also plainly thinks like an economist: search below for “crime pays” to see his sober assessment of why it’s better to earn a living as a security expert than as a computer criminal”

Adobe: How to manage and disable Local Shared Objects. Directe link: Website Storage Settings panel. (N.a.v. Marketingfacts’ Onderzoek Cookie Deletion Marketingfacts.)

MacWorld, I will keep my Mac safe from other users

1. Use admin accounts for administration only
2. Don’t share user accounts
3. Turn on password prompts
4. Encrypt sensitive files

Bruce Schneier: “Well, the submissions are in; the blog entry has 334 comments. I’ve read them all, and here are the semi-finalists: (…)”

Permanent Eraser: “This utility overwrites your data thirty-five times, scrambles the original file name, and truncates the file size to nothing before Permanent Eraser finally unlinks it from the system. Once your data has been erased, it can no longer be read through traditional means.”

Bruce Schneier: “For it to be cyberwar, it must first be war. And in the 21st century, war will inevitably include cyberwar. “

Wired: “I Was a Cybercrook for the FBI.”

(Update: deel 2 en deel3.)

Danah Boyd: “Sara created a MySpace using an email address that she made specifically for that purpose. After vacation, she couldn’t remember her MySpace password (or her email password).”

• Ultimate Secure Home located in Durango Colorado
  “The exact location of the house will only be revealed to serious, pre-screened, and financially pre-qualified prospective buyers at an appropriate time.”
  (tags: security house design)
• YouTube – Rare Hitler Video
  Lachen met Adolf
  (tags: hitler speech)

• Gucci
  After redesign again the widest website everrrr
  (tags: gucci fashion design)
• Fugitive exec nabbed after Skype call
  “Alexander was traced to the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo after he placed a one-minute call using Skype. That was enough to alert authorities to his presence and hunt him down.”
  (tags: skype voip security anonymous)

• Zfone
  “Zfone is like PGPfone, but brought up to date with all the modern VoIP protocols, such as SIP and RTP.”
  (tags: voip security pgp encryption)
• E-mail security hero takes on VoIP | Tech News on ZDNet
  “Last year, Zimmermann announced software called Zfone, which wraps voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) calls in an additional layer of security. “
  (tags: voip security encryption)
• Interview Han Hoogerbrugge
  “it’s like… you know, when you’re bored and you’re just sitting around doing something and suddenly you wonder what the hell it is that you’re doing. Like lip syncing in front of the bathroom mirror when no one else is around to see you…”
  (tags: art hoogerburgge)
• Jason Polan/ART/BOOK/
  “The Every Piece Of Art in The Museum Of Modern Art Book contains every piece of art that was visible to the public at the museum from January 19 to January 31, 2005. It is 50 pages and perfect bound. “
  (tags: art moma)

• Wij vertrouwen stemcomputers niet – wijvertrouwenstemcomputersniet
  “Wij vinden dat verkiezingsuitslagen gecontroleerd moeten kunnen worden. We accepteren niet dat een handjevol techneuten stilletjes de plek van vele tienduizenden stemburoleden heeft ingenomen.”
  (tags: politics computer nl voting)
• Telegraph | Entertainment | The artist who sailed to oblivion
  “Richard Dorment is surprised – and captivated – by a heartbreaking exhibition of works by conceptual artist Bas Jan Ader, who was mysteriously lost at sea”
  (tags: art basjanader ader)
• Jeroen Bosch: Value for Money
  “Verkoopshow content 2006: bestikkerde genummerde en gesigneerde eurobiljetten tijdens champagnetherapie @ Het Wilde Weten. Prijzen varierende van 2 tot 75 euro.”
  (tags: art jb geld money content)
• Schneier on Security: Terrorists, Data Mining, and the Base Rate Fallacy
  “I have already explained why NSA-style wholesale surveillance data-mining systems are useless for finding terrorists. Here’s a more formal explanation: (…)”
  (tags: datamining security nsa us)
• A slimmer star, but no curtains for the fat lady – Arts – Entertainment
  “TWO years ago, the world’s leading dramatic soprano, Deborah Voigt, was sacked by the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, from her role in Richard Strauss’s opera Ariadne on Naxos.”
  (tags: opera overweight DeborahVoigt CoventGarden)

• heise online – Passwortdaten von Flirtlife.de kompromittiert
  “Ein blinder Log-in-Versuch mit “123456″ führt in fast 1,4 Prozent der Fälle zum Erfolg.”
  (tags: security password)

• Flash: 10 ways, “information”
  “outstanding recursive photo mosaic browser” – (Waxy)
  (tags: photography)
• 75-day Getting Real book stats update – Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals)
  “It’s been about 75 days since we released Getting Real, the book, in PDF format” “The revenue generated so far is a hair under $175,000.”
  (tags: publishing 37signals books)
• 80s videos
  “Los 80s: a gigantic list of 80s videos on YouTube.”
  (tags: music video youtube)
• The Longest Building I Have Ever Seen
  “It is totally windowless and stretches for at least a mile, although it seems to defy laws of space-time so it may be longer or shorter than that. “
  (tags: architecture)
• Guardian Unlimited Arts | Hockney painting likely to establish new record
  “Another art market world record is expected to be broken when one of David Hockney’s most significant works comes to auction.”
  (tags: art hockney)
• Wired News: The Eternal Value of Privacy
  “The most common retort against privacy advocates — by those in favor of ID checks, cameras, databases, data mining and other wholesale surveillance measures — is this line: “If you aren’t doing anything wrong, what do you have to hide?”"
  (tags: privacy security)
• if the earth were a sandwich
  “Never before have two pieces of bread been simultaneously placed on the ground directly opposite each other on the globe, thus making an EARTH SANDWICH. The fact that the earth has never been a sandwich is probably why things are so f*cked up”
  (tags: zefrank earthsandwich)

• MAKE: Blog: Password painting
  “WEP password, meet oil landscape. Recycle that old painting into a functional piece of tech decor. Keep your network protected while your house guests can surf the ‘net and admire art.”
  (tags: art security password)

• A cubic meter of fogged space
  “… He partitions space with curtains made of drops of water frozen by strobe lights… or he converts fog into a building material, neatly carving a cubic meter of emptiness by slicing through a foggy room with spotlights.”"
  (tags: art)
• if:book: the selected, annotated outbox of dave eggers
  “The Times Book Review ran an essay this weekend on the problem this poses for literary historians, biographers and archivists, who long have relied on collected letters and papers to fill in the gaps between a writer’s published work. “
  (tags: literature mail email letters author correspondence)
• RA: Resident Advisor – Featured Label : Traum Schallplatten – International News
  “Reinhold and Klein were inspired to start the label after a trip to Buenos Aires organised by the Goethe Institute in 1998 where the pair acted as ambassadors for German electronic music.”
  (tags: music minimal eulberg label)
• [Seihin] Wedding dress for use in space
  “Eri Matsui (…) designed a wedding dress which looks beatiful both under gravity and zero-gravity”
  (tags: design space art)
• SuperOyster
  “Sell Your Place In Line” Sic!
  (tags: economics)
• Wired News: Everyone Wants to ‘Own’ Your PC
  “When technology serves its owners, it is liberating. When it is designed to serve others, over the owner’s objection, it is oppressive. “
  (tags: computer tech security)