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Yes, the title may sound sensationalist however that is the strategy of the defense. The strategy apparently named as the “King Kong defense” consists on arguing that The Pirate Bay doesn’t initiate the transfer, the users do. The sites [TPB] administrators are unable to identify the users because they can register with any name i.e. [...]
Day two of the TBP is on the books and the big news of the day: 50% of the charges where dropped. Although that may a headline, there is more substance on the sidelines. For example, the comments on twitter are hilarious, smart and interesting. Unfortunately I didn’t flag them or save them, however if [...]
Why the The Pirate Bay Trial is important
16 Feb 2009Some will call it “the political trial of the decade” or a “show… or an spectacle”, however at the end of the day (and many to come) is a battle of interests. In one corner the plaintiffs: 20th Century Fox, EMI, MGM, Colombia Pictures, Warner Bros, Sony BMG and Universal. On the other The Pirate [...]
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- Tags: file sharing, p2p, thepiratebay
Posting Animoto “Cool Slides Shows Videos” in WordPress
In: Life Hacks|Web
12 Feb 2009Once you have made your video in Animoto, you might want to post it in your blog. If you have WordPress and already wrote the post, and want to include it, the process is not that smooth as it should. Generally I write and then look for the media to include, or included until the [...]
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- Tags: Animoto, clearspring, facebook, hack, video, Wordpress
Know your customers: Microsoft thinks is still 1999
In: Web
13 Jan 2009Yesterday, I was looking for some information regarding the “Shrink Volume” Windows Vista utility, and found an article in Lifehacker on dual boot Vista and Windows 7. There in the Opinions section, is a post titled “In 2009, Microsoft Still Underestimates the Web”. The post is a constructive criticism, on Microsoft failure in distributing the [...]
Video of Twitter being hacked: tweets without Captcha
In: Web
7 Jan 2009Here is the video of Twitter being hacked by GMZ: Apparently GMZ (the hacker and a 18 student) used a dictionary attack to login in into a Admin account. How was this possible? Well if you try to log in into Gmail or Hotmail and failed for x number of time, then you are ask [...]
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- Tags: hacking, Security, Twitter, video
Twitter Caught.. I mean Hacked
6 Jan 2009Earlier I posted about the reports of the phishing attacks against Twitter. Apparently high profile accounts i.e Obama, Britney where hacked. The good side is that the Hackers have a sense of humor, the bad thing is that they have been fixed. It looks like the vector of attack here some tools that where used [...]
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- Tags: Britney Spears, Obama, phishing, Security, Twitter, Web2.0
Phishing Tweets
5 Jan 2009According to the Twitter blog, phishing scams targeted at Twitter users, have appeared. If you wonder what scammers are trying to achieve with it? Well think about it, there is a lot of value in Twitter account. Maybe not on the average Joe Twitter user, however there are a lot of high profile Twitter users, [...]
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- Tags: Obama, phishing, Twitter, Web2.0
Microsoft’s "Junk E-mail Protection Program" is Junk
In: Webmail
14 Dec 2008A couple of weeks ago, I receive an email from Microsoft asking me to “help” them fight junk mail. After being in the program for three weeks, I got to the conclusion that this whole program is junk . Junk E-mail Protection Team is a cheap attempt to “crowd source” spam detection. They don’t have [...]
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- Tags: Hotmail, junk mail, Microsoft, msn, Steve Ballmer
Facebook: "Please reset your spam settings"
In: Web
30 Nov 2008I log into Facebook and I see the following: it reads: Unfortunately, your email notification settings have been lost. You can reset them on the Notifications page. We’re sorry for the inconvenience. Before going into the boring stuff, did you notice how many spam notifications you could get? Memo to Facebook: your notifications settings are [...]
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- Tags: facebook, Web2.0
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