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DESPITE THE RABID CLAIMS of Apple fan boys that its software is more secure than anything else on the market, Jobs’ Mob products were the first to be trashed again at a Pwn2Own hacking competition.

In fact flaws in the Iphone OS and zero-day vulnerabilities in Apple’s Safari 4 web browser made a mockery of Apple’s advertising.

Flaws were also found in Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer 8 but apparently hackers had some trouble getting around exploitation mitigations in Windows 7, although eventually they did.

Researcher Charlie Miller, principal security analyst at Independent Security Evaluators, quickly exploited a vulnerability in the desktop version of Safari running on Mac OS X. He won $10,000 for the exploit, which was one of 20 zero-day bugs that Apple fanbois deny exist in OS X.

Miller’s exploit opened up a remote shell, which he accessed and was able to run any malicious code he wanted. We guess it just worked!

Miller said discovering the 20 zero-day vulnerabilities took him only three weeks using three computers, so who knows what he would have found if he had kept looking.



Fortune Teller Charged with Raping Teens.

One of the girls has testified that during the spring and summer of 2007, she was 16 when she met Duran on a street. She said he told her to pick up a leaf and crumple it so he could read her fortune. Kim recalled for jurors that Duran told her she was lonely, going to die and bad things would happen to her family. Kim said Duran met the girl at his home the following day and told her: “I can help you, but I have to be in you.”

When the girl said she didn’t understand, the prosecutor said Duran told her: “My spirit has to be in you.” They eventually had sex at least six times, Kim said.

The other alleged victim testified she was 14 when she met Duran at the first victim’s house. When she crushed a leaf, Duran allegedly peered at it and told her she would be a prostitute, have three children and die by the time she was 18.

The prosecutor said Duran told her he could help if she showed him her private parts.

These are the classic definition of what was once referred to as “dumb bunnies.”


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The Chinese Minitrue on the recent Google events (Click the link for more)

Google has officially announced its withdrawal from the China market. This is a high-impact incident. It has triggered netizens’ discussions which are not limited to a commercial level. Therefore please pay strict attention to the following content requirements during this period:
[…]
B. Forums, blogs and other interactive media sections:

1. It is not permitted to hold discussions or investigations on the Google topic
2. Interactive sections do not recommend this topic, do not place this topic and related comments at the top
3. All websites please clean up text, images and sound and videos which attack the Party, State, government agencies, Internet policies with the excuse of this event.
4. All websites please clean up text, images and sound and videos which support Google, dedicate flowers to Google, ask Google to stay, cheer for Google and others have a different tune from government policy
5. On topics related to Google, carefully manage the information in exchanges, comments and other interactive sessions
6. Chief managers in different regions please assign specific manpower to monitor Google-related information; if there is information about mass incidents, please report it in a timely manner..

The Chinese Minitrue instructions to the media during the National People’s Congress (Click the link for more)

A portion was posted on the Internet, and independently confirmed and translated by the Beijing bureau of The New York Times. Annotations by The Times are in brackets.
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7. Delete news related to the youtan poluo flower. [Buddhist lore says this rare and auspicious flower blooms once every 3,000 years. Reports that a nun at a temple in southern China found a cluster of the tiny flowers under her washing machine set off a recent stir in the press. Chinese officials are concerned about the spread of superstition.]
8. For the “poisonous cowpea incident” in Hainan, only use news articles from the Xinhua News Agency, People’s Daily and the official Hainan media. [Cowpeas from Hainan Province were found to be contaminated with a toxic pesticide, setting off criticism about why the cowpeas were sold to other provinces.]
9. Do not feature news reports on major incidents in Beijing during the two meetings, including “staffer at Xidan Books Building hacks manager to death” or “accident at Shunyi car showroom, one man dies.” Do not highlight the timing of these events.


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  • Republicans getting too involved in tech.
  • Netflix to roll out Wii.
  • Hackers cracking IE* and other weirdness.
  • Is Sprint too early with new phone? Huh?
  • Bing to do a redesign again! Are they going to rename it again?
  • Steve Jobs answers email… Stop the Presses!!
  • YouTube goes down this morning.
  • Weird car from GM is a topper.

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ZDNet – Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Anti-virus software is supposed to protect you from having your PC trashed, but one dodgy update is all it takes to put your PC out of actions.

That’s what happened to BitDefender customers this weekend after an update sent on Saturday resulted in key system files on 64-bit versions of Windows to be quarantines, resulting in an unbootable system.

Users are understandably angry, and many claim to have lost faith in the product. It’s not surprising really given the scale of the damage caused to some systems. While some users had to reinstall their PCs completely from scratch in order to get back up and running, others had to pay to have their systems fixed. Others are likely to still be off-the-grid trying to figure out what to do next.

I wonder how many of our readers were nailed by this update?

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Found by Brother Uncle Don


Yesterday, we presented PROOF beyond a shadow of a doubt (a poll of Republicans) that Prez Barack Obama IS the Anti-Christ.

But there’s a problem. For years we’ve posted story after story that proved former Prez George W. Bush HAD to have been the Anti-Christ. Democrats and liberals (even those who are atheists) said it was so. What more PROOF does one need?

Bush and Antichrist Mania
One-Third of Americans believe in ghosts, UFOs and George W. Bush
Prez. Bush Is The Danger Our Forefathers Warned Us About
The Word according to Dumbya

How is this possible? Two Anti-Christs? And then it hit me. Obama is (polls show) a socialist Anti-Christ while Bush is/was a capitalist (fooling us by supporting and enacting many “socialist” programs, bailouts, etc) Anti-Christ. And don’t forget, we dodged a bullet because Bush wanted a third term! To enact more Anti-Christ policies, no doubt!

But wait… There’s more! How many times was it made crystal clear that former Vice Prez Dick Cheney is/was the Anti-Christ! Three Anti-Christs? What’s going on here?

It Was Cheney! Anyone Surprised?
Would Cheney like to see US Attacked Just to Prove a Point?
And of course: Too Weird: Dick Cheney, Barack Obama Are “Cousins”

What about pretenders like Karl Rove and John McCain?

There’s only one way to solve this.

Sunday! Sunday! Sunday! It’s the no holds barred, tag team wrestling match of the year! No, of the century! No, of the millennium!

Anti-Christ Obama vs Anti-Christ Bush vs Anti-Christ Cheney

Three go in, one comes out — for the Anti-Christ title match of all time (or until the next election)! Sunday night, SyFy channel. Check your local listings.

So, who do you think will win the Anti-Christ match?


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  • Sprint Wi-Max reviews give stock a boost.
  • Sony criticizes Nintendo.
  • Meanwhile look for DSxl to hit shelves.
  • Samsung getting into AMOLED screen. Very pretty.
  • Dell falling into cloud computing deal.
  • Yahoo iPhone app seems exaggerated.
  • AT&T offering Femtocells. I explain.
  • Wikipedia site crashed. Servers overheated.

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A HEATHROW security man was quizzed by police after ogling a girl colleague “naked” in a new anti-terror body scanner.

Jo Margetson, 29, reported John Laker, 25, after he took her picture with the X-ray gadget and made a lewd comment.

The pervy guard leered and told her: “I love those gigantic t**s.”

Laker, who faces the sack, was the first airport worker to be caught abusing the controversial new devices.

They were brought in by the Government after the Christmas Day underpants bomber tried to blow up a flight to Detroit.

Found by Liam Hemmings.



Obama Derangement Syndrome—pathological hatred of the president posing as patriotism—has infected the Republican Party. Here’s new data to prove it:
* 67 percent of Republicans (and 40 percent of Americans overall) believe that Obama is a socialist.
* 57 percent of Republicans (32 percent overall) believe that Obama is a Muslim
* 45 percent of Republicans (25 percent overall) agree with the Birthers in their belief that Obama was “not born in the United States and so is not eligible to be president”
* 38 percent of Republicans (20 percent overall) say that Obama is “doing many of the things that Hitler did”
* Scariest of all, 24 percent of Republicans (14 percent overall) say that Obama “may be the Antichrist.”

These numbers all come from a brand-new Harris poll, inspired in part by my new book Wingnuts. It demonstrates the cost of the campaign of fear and hate that has been pumped up in the service of hyper-partisanship over the past 15 months. We are playing with dynamite by demonizing our president and dividing the United States in the process. What might be good for ratings is bad for the country.

The poll, which surveyed 2,230 people right at the height of the health-care reform debate, also clearly shows that education is a barrier to extremism. Respondents without a college education are vastly more likely to believe such claims, while Americans with college degrees or better are less easily duped. It’s a reminder of what the 19th-century educator Horace Mann once too-loftily said: “Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.”


Call me cynical, but I’m not surprised.

What other gems are buried in the bill? For Obama, this bill helps start the process of easing the wealth inequality in the country. Don’t seem recall that as a key talking point on the interview shows.

The health care reform bill signed into law by President Barack Obama Tuesday requires members of Congress and their office staffs to buy insurance through the state-run exchanges it creates – but it may exempt staffers who work for congressional committees or for party leaders in the House and Senate.

Staffers and members on both sides of the aisle call it an “inequity” and an “outrage” – a loophole that exempts the staffers most involved in writing and passing the bill from one of its key requirements.

The bill requires “congressional staff” to buy insurance from the exchanges – with a stipend from the Office of Personnel Management But page 158 of the bill defines “congressional staff” narrowly, as “employees employed by the official office of a member of congress, whether in the district office or in Washington.”

The Congressional Research Service believes a court could rule that the legislation “would exclude professional committee staff, joint committee staff, some shared staff, as well as potentially those staff employed by leadership offices.”

If that’s so, staffers who work for Nancy Pelosi in her capacity as representative from California would go into the exchange program, while staffers who work for her in her capacity as speaker would stay on the government’s plan. Other Capitol employees, like those who work for the Clerk of the House or the House Historian, would be similarly exempted.


With all the news stories of Tiger’s mistresses, and more recently, Jesse James cheating on Sandra Bullock with Michelle ‘Bombshell’ McGee, it seems appropriate to find out how things are in DU land with relationships. Assume for the poll that we’re looking for both marriages and committed relationships, straight, gay, whatever.

Have you ever cheated on your significant other?

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  • Google China dispute all over the news.
  • Studies indicate that the iPad will be more of an e-reader than anything else.
  • Samsung Galaxy phone has huge screen.
  • Microsoft has dumb idea. Guess what?
  • Branson closer to sending people into space.
  • Firefox does not work on new Windows phone 7.
  • IBM in big EU trouble.
  • JavaFX looks dead.

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