LifeLock’s Spokesperson ID stolen
Posted by trm96 | Filed under Other News
I’m sure you have seen the commercials on TV for LifeLock and the spokesperson Todd Davis challenging “hackers” to steal his identity, well it may seem as though someone has.
“It seems as though LifeLock isn’t as secure as Todd Davis makes it out. According to a LifeLock spokesman, his identity has been stolen. For two years, Davis has been daring hackers to steal his ID. Looks like he got what he wanted. CNN reports: ‘Now, LifeLock customers in Maryland, New Jersey and West Virginia are suing Davis, claiming his service didn’t work as promised and he knew it wouldn’t, because the service had failed even him.’”
Slashdot article here.
Tags: Computer security, ID Theft
Firefox 3 RC1 now available!
Posted by trm96 | Filed under Other News
Thats right Firefox 3 RC1 is out now but only for nightly tester/Minefield users.
Assuming no new issues are found today the build team will start official prep work for Release Candidate 1 (RC1) tomorrow. QA will start their extensive RC1 test pass on Monday. If all goes well we should have the Release Candidate publicly available in late May.
RC1 is intended for wider scale public testing. Our 1.2M+ active beta users will automatically get updated to RC1 when it is released. If no new showstopper issues are found in RC1 it will become Firefox 3 final. If we find any critical issues we will continue to release new Release Candidates until we are ready for final ship.
Above quoted from a Mozilla developer center page.
Tags: Firefox 3, internet, Mozilla
PayPal: We are not blocking Safari
Posted by trm96 | Filed under Other News
PayPal Says they have no plans now or ever of blocking any web browsers anytime… This comes days after the story hit the web about them planning to do it. “We have absolutely no intention of blocking current versions of any browsers, including Apple’s Safari, from our website,” a company spokeswoman said in an e-mail late Friday.
Tags: Internet security, PayPal, phishing
C|Net writer: A call to arms
Posted by trm96 | Filed under Other News
A C|Net writer Don Reisinger is calling out to all the tech-minded people to arms. Instead of quoting the article I think it’s best you just read it for your self. He makes a lot of very good points. I was proud to see that someone is actually looking out for us; the “geeks” of the world.
Reisinger’s article here
BayWords starts the free speech bloging movement
Posted by trm96 | Filed under Other News
The people who brought you the Pirate Bay bring you a new blog dedicated to un-centered free speech called BayWords. The blog bosts that you will be able to post anything. The blog is undoubtedly going to cause some a lot of controversy but then again the people responsible for the Pirate Bay are used to controversy. I will keep my eyes glued to the site in the coming months, and report anything worth while.
Tags: bloging, free speech, internet
Blockbuster offers to buy Circuit City
Posted by trm96 | Filed under Other News
Blockbuster has put in a bid to buy the electronics chain Circuit City for $1.33 billion. Circuit City witch has struggled recently because of Best Buy’s dominance in the consumer electronics retail sector, witch already has claimed the life of CompUSA. Circuit City is expected to agree to the deal aimed at “taking advantage of the global trend of putting media content on electronic devices”, Blockbuster said on Monday.
Tags: Bestbuy, Blockbuster, Circuit City, Technology
Demonoid back up!
Posted by trm96 | Filed under Other News
I just found out today that Demonoid is back up and running. All the old urer accounts and such are also the way they were so it’s just as though they never left.
Hey heres a convenient link!
Tags: Bittorrent, Demonoid
