2008 Aug 29, 8:37"Two security researchers have demonstrated a new technique to stealthily intercept internet traffic on a scale previously presumed to be unavailable to anyone outside of intelligence agencies like
the National Security Agency." Described fixes all require significant changes to the software and probably hardware doing the routing. Ugh
wired article security internet bgp hack networking defcon 2008 Jul 14, 2:15"The entourage of the Philippine president, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, has an unusual secret weapon. Her security team defends the head of the government with umbrellas. Not ordinary umbrellas, but
unbreakable fighting umbrellas."
humor video weapon security umbrella 2008 Jul 7, 5:26"888-8888. This was his new cell-phone number, and his greatest philonumerical triumph. The number proved unusable. It received more than a hundred wrong numbers a day."
apple prank wired article phone education steve-wozniak 2008 Jun 18, 12:44Bruce Schneier writes about LifeLock for which you've probably seen the comercials of the CEO parading around his SSN. I was wondering what LifeLock actually did.
bruce-schneier identity fraud credit article wired security privacy lifelock 2008 Jun 6, 2:41"After finding him responsible for 27 separate instances of professional misconduct, the Florida Bar has requested that controversial Miami attorney and anti-gaming activist Jack Thompson be
disbarred for 10 years, reports GamePolitics."
game news wired jack-thompson justice finally awesome legal law 2008 Apr 8, 1:52"The Culture War: How new media keeps corrupting our children." Article snippets condemning novels in 1700s, the Waltz 1800s, Movies, Telephone, etc etc. for corrupting the youth
article wired videogames culture youth media censorship comic politics history humor 2007 Dec 23, 8:48Banksy article and interview in Wired.
art article banksy graffiti hack humor wired streetart interview 2007 Dec 12, 9:21Article on amateur atomic clock enthusiasts
clock time wired geek technology science atomic-clock article via:boingboing 2007 Nov 7, 1:40Interview with BBC's News Director Richard Sambrook mostly on the topic of news medias role on the Internet.
david-weinberger blog bbc interview news media richard-sambrook wired audio 2007 May 2, 1:12Voting records from congress people available as well as money trail information.
article politics mashup web blog social public privacy voting 2007 May 2, 1:00Apparently there's something called OS-tan in which Windows OSes are represented as anime styled characters. Very odd.
article os-tan humor images weird anime 2007 Mar 1, 1:01Wired reported pays a service to make his fake blog popular on Digg.com
article digg fraud bribe 2006 Oct 26, 9:23Famous authors create six word short stories.
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