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Tempus fugit

Moving up the stack

Everyone has probably reblogged Marco’s stuff Round and Round and Round Again, particularly something that’s a few months old. But I start laughing every time I read this excerpt! Every time I even THINK about it I smile, it is so sweet and funny!  

via marco of tumblr:

Even geeks (like us) have their limits of reasonability. At some point, we often decide that what we’ve been doing or what we think we should enjoy just isn’t worthwhile.
Ever build a carputer? (Yeah, that’s a computer in your car.) I attempted it when I was 18: it was a bunch of old PC parts inside a Dremeled-out Rubbermaid tub with a gamepad next to my parking brake to control Winamp so I could play MP3s. It was ridiculous. I had to wait until my carputer booted Windows 98 before it could play music. Even I couldn’t take this thing seriously. It lasted about 3 days until I drove over a speed bump and the CPU fell out of the slot. I scrapped it and just bought an MP3-CD player (the second one ever released) instead.

(Source: benjaminstein, via marco)

evercookie - virtually irrevocable persistent cookies

tbeseda:

dhotson:

Holy crap. :-O

Not sure if I’m amazed or appalled. Probably both.

Click the link at your own risk. Samy makes me nervous. I’m overstating things a bit, yet… Well, it is clever, I’ve known about the evercookie for awhile, but tumblr showed me where to find it. Samy is the creator of the evercookie for those curious sorts out there.

(via tbeseda)

Did Digg game its own system to benefit publisher partners?

ltgenpanda:

Digg recently published a blog post titled “Digg’s Algorithmic Mystery Tour” on October, 15th. While a Digg blog post is a normal thing, a post about the algorithm was very surprising to me. Why did Digg, which never bothers to blog about very visible changes, numerous bugs and issues, decided…

Commit 78345376401ef66b9e84d92287cec94b797679eb to codebutler’s firesheep - GitHub Gallery of Eric Butler’s “More Showoff Fail”. Firesheep: A Firefox extension that demonstrates HTTP session hijacking attacks. I’m just discovering the wonders of github, for SOCIAL CODING. Call me Demeter…. 

Commit 78345376401ef66b9e84d92287cec94b797679eb to codebutler’s firesheep - GitHub

Gallery of Eric Butler’s “More Showoff Fail”. Firesheep: A Firefox extension that demonstrates HTTP session hijacking attacks.

I’m just discovering the wonders of github, for SOCIAL CODING. Call me Demeter…. 

Internet VS Privacy - A Helpful Venn Diagram (by Dave Hoffman) This is an excellent illustration for TechCrunch’s expose of the Firesheep security exploit. According to Butler’s post, he created this seemingly diabolical tool to expose the severe lack of security on the web. We spend so much time quibbling over the minutia in privacy policies, we lose sight of the forest, or in this case, gaping security holes. via Firesheep In Wolve’s Clothing Exploit, TechCrunch

Internet VS Privacy - A Helpful Venn Diagram (by Dave Hoffman)

This is an excellent illustration for TechCrunch’s expose of the Firesheep security exploit.

According to Butler’s post, he created this seemingly diabolical tool to expose the severe lack of security on the web. We spend so much time quibbling over the minutia in privacy policies, we lose sight of the forest, or in this case, gaping security holes.

via Firesheep In Wolve’s Clothing Exploit, TechCrunch

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