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I spent quite some time last night uploading photos to this site (you can see them in the January archive) so I’m feeling a bit lazy today. The following is a talk given on Digital Rights Management to Microsoft Research Group by Cory Doctorow. It’s definitely worth a read for anyone in the [...]

Three random photos taken in St Kilda at sunset

It’s a bit like kicking a gigantic, monopolistic dog while it’s down, but another four “extremely critical” vulnerabilities have been reported for Internet Explorer (IE). Although Microsoft today released seven (yes, seven!) patches for various products, none of them cover these latest IE exploits which remain unpatched. Versions 5, 5.01 and 6 are [...]

If you’ve been following the Tour de France over the last week, you may have noticed Lance Armstrong wearing a particularly ugly pair of Oakley sunglasses. It turns out that they have a built in MP3 player and will be released under the name of “Thump”. From December, Thump will be [...]

AusCERT today sent out an email advising that the recent Microsoft patch for Internet Explorer (IE) does NOT fix all outstanding vulnerabilities. It simply mitigates the effect of one of the exploits. Users of IE (on Windows, not Mac) should probably read the report (available at http://www.auscert.org.au/4173) but for those who can’t be [...]

Lately it seems that nearly every week has seen the revelation of a new Internet Explorer vulnerability, and even the Department of Homeland Security is recommending that people switch to an alternative browser. That’s something I’ve long been promoting, for reasons of security, functionality and standards support, so it’s good to see others coming [...]