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Wardriving: Curiousity Is Now a Class Three Felony
Posted by Kristin Wenzel Categories: Internet, Wireless / WiFi,
Wardriving has become a favorite pastime for many, myself included. Most wardrivers, again including myself, are not out to steal people’s identities, infect someone’s computer with spyware or pass along a virus. Nor do they really have any desire to delve into the personal files and programs or track their behavior. Most of the time, the interest is in finding a network connection, not exploiting it for any criminal reason. In other words, plain and simple curiosity —
“Hey, I wonder if there’s wireless here? No? Well, what about here? Sweet!”
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Police have charged a Florida man with a third-degree felony charge, after he was arrested for accessing a St. Petersburg resident’s wireless Internet network without permission.
Curiosity, apparently, is now a class three felony.
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| CNN.com
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Push Email Just Around the Corner for Windows Mobile Devices
Posted by Sparky Categories: Smartphones, Internet,
Last week Microsoft quietly introduced their push email extension technical preview for Exchange 2003. This enables server administrators to enable push email capabilities for Windows Mobile 5.0 devices. Obviously since no Windows Mobile 5.0 devices have been released yet to the public, so not many will be able to take advantage of Microsoft’s instant, always on, email in their pocket. Push email really is a driving technology in the marketplace right now with so many mobile professionals wanting access to their inboxes and the ability to know when a client has sent them mail and respond instantly. Of course if you need your fix today go buy yourself a Treo 650 and download ChatterMail for instant push IMAP email in your pocket.
Read More | MSMobiles
According to a recent survey by Blue Coast Systems, only 36% of British people have any idea what is meant by the term “spyware.” Of those surveyed, only 30% use software to check their office computers for spyware, and only 22% check their home computers. Even more frightening than any impact this might have on computer systems in the UK is the additional finding that 11% of those polled thought, and I am not making this up, that spyware was “a gadget from the latest Star Wars movie.” I’m honestly not sure why this response was so popular, but if 11% of the British are running programs to stop any aspect of the Star Wars prequels, I say more power to them.
Read More | Biosmagazine
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Former AOL Employee Gets Time for Selling 92 Million Screen Names
Posted by Alex Grahmann Categories: Corporate News, Internet,
Jason Smathers, a 25-year-old ex-AOL employee, will spend 15 months in prison for stealing 92 million screen names and email addresses of AOL users and selling them to spammers. The spammers reportedly used the information to send up to 7 billion unsolicited advertisements for online gambling. Smathers got a lighter sentence than first expected due to his willingness to hand over all the spamming information he had to the government. AOL is claiming that Smathers caused over $300,000 of damage to the company.
Read More | Baltimore Sun
We have recently showed you iGuy for Your iPod and we couldn’t resist showing you his “adventures.” This blog for the little fella gives you some insight into the good life for iGuy. Here he is kickin’ it Hugh Heffner style accompanied by one of the Bratz, Polly Pocket, and maybe Polly’s cousin or other distant relative. iGuy, you scoundrel, you.
Read More | Adventures of iGuy
Gear Live Podcast: Tom Bihn, Automatic Doors, OSx86, Treo 670, Xbox 360 Accesories
Posted by Edwin Soto Categories: Handhelds, Internet, Podcasts, Video Games,
We are back on the podcast tip this week, expanding on some of the more popular topics we’ve have talked about over the past several days. In this edition:
- Tom Bihn Brain Bag Review
- Tom Bihn Monolith Review
- Japanese Prototype Automatic Door Takes Complicated Leap Forward
- Hacked OSx86 Will Run On PC Hardware
- Palm Chooses HTC to Manufacture Treo 670
- Microsot Limits 3rd Party Xbox 360 Accessories
- South Korean Man Dies After 50-Hour Gaming Marathon
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Voices: Edwin Soto, Sparky, Jesse Easley
Length: 30:06, 20.7 MB
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So you want to post something real quick to your Blogger site, but you’re on your laptop and can’t find a WiFi signal anywhere? Fret no more, Blogger’s heard your plea and now you can download this plug in for MS Word. Blogging on the go can’t get any simpler. R.I.P. bold, italics, and underline
tags, we hardly knew ye.
Read More | Blogger
Bush Administration Puts Brakes On .XXX Domain
Posted by Devin Categories: Corporate News, Internet,
I’m sure by now most of you are aware that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) had approved a .xxx suffix back in June. Now the Bush Administration wants to delay registration on domain names until its impact on the internet can be studied. ICANN was expected to give final approval on the domain name Tuesday, but says it would agree to a one month delay allowing some of the concerns that have recently been raised to be explored. While this creation was supposed to “help protect children from exposure to online pornography and also have a positive impact on online adult entertainment through voluntary efforts of the industry” it seems some are concerned that it will encourage more pornography on the internet. Many net privacy campaigners also believe that it could cause many censorship problems for years to come. What do you make of the situation? Do you see a potential problem arising out of the .xxx suffix, or is this just a bump in the road for the creation of a virtual red light district?
Read More | BBC News
While most of us online enjoy using Google Earth to view our beautiful planet, it seems that quite a few countries are concerned that some of the satallite images provided could potentially be a security risk. Holland is the latest country to jump in on this claim, joining Australia and the United States in their theory that providing images of military bases, government buildings and airports, among other things, could possibly aid terrorist attacks. While Google already blurs images of certain high profile places like the US Capitol, Australia would also like to see images of nuclear reactors and other high risk areas also being blurred. The Australian Attorney Generals’ Office however, seems to see things in the same light I do…all the images are public already and if a terrorist really wanted to get their hands on this information they would no matter what. Shutting down Google Maps would not only be a waste of time, but it would rob the general public of the usefulness of such great technology.
Read More | TechDirt
Some of us have gotten the opportunity to play around with the new Internet Explorer 7. While it is set to be a major release in the eyes of Microsoft, after using it myself it really does feel like Microsoft is trying to play catch up with this one. Well, new features aren’t all that IE7 has in store - check out the new Internet Explorer icon and logo! You go, Microsoft! Hey, wait - aren’t those Firefox colors in the new icon?
Read More | MSDN
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