Things I read that I found interesting and worthy of comment July 30th through July 31st: Read This If You Hate Meetings – Good article as well as the one embedded upon which this article is based. This identifies the main source of actual stress in my work life as I have equal parts "maker" [...]

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Things I read today that I found interesting and worthy of comment July 30th: Your GSM Phone is (Probably) Vulnerable to Malicious Text Messages (Andrew Brandt/Technologizer) – Am I the only one who hates SMS? Seems silly that on a smart phone, connected to the internet and hence access to IM of every kind that [...]

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TriCipher, Persistent Systems unveil secure single sign-on to Oracle Siebel CRM – Middleware : News.

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Obama’s Puzzling Approach to the Muslim World No matter what spin you put on this on a spectrum from purely stupid to outright conspiratorial, it doesn’t speak well for our President.  The author certainly seems to think that while normally on the spectrum I mention abvoe, “ignorant” can’t be considered.  That makes it all the [...]

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Things I read today that I found interesting and worthy of comment July 24th: Amazon's Bezos Apologizes For The "Stupid" And "Thoughtless" Kindle Incident (MG Siegler/TechCrunch) – I certainly have more respect and trust of Bezos than Jobs and this is the kind of repentant apology necessary. Still I'll be sitting on the sidelines a [...]

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Things I read today that I found interesting and worthy of comment July 23rd: Wonder If This Has Something to Do With Those Laptop Hunter Ads… – Duh, Apple is a great niche marketer. Such detailed analysis is really valuable. Now the cool kids can say their toys have a dominant market share in a [...]

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Things I read that I found interesting and worthy of comment July 15th through July 22nd: How One iPhone App Could Save Public Radio – All terrestrial radio is public. Oh, you mean the stations we all pay for so liberal orthodoxy can be espoused? If they can't compete in the public marketplace, they should [...]

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Researchers Bypass Secure Web Connections EV SSL certificates are supposed to help people feel more secure online. But at Black Hat next week, two researchers plan to disclose a way around SSL protection. http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/vulnerabilities/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=218501653&cid=nl_tw_security Looks like EV SSL is proving no more secure as a presentation / pretty pictures scenario pushing authentication off on user’s [...]

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Feb 2009 article regarding automated attacks on CAPTCHAs:  CAPTCHA Conundrum: Automated Attacks Trump Human-Entry Defenses:  http://www.bmighty.com/blog/main/archives/2009/02/captcha_cnondru.html?queryText=anti-spam From April 2008: “Gone in 60 seconds: Spambot cracks Live Hotmail CAPTCHA needing only six seconds per attempt, and with a success rate of 10-15 percent, new anti-CAPTCHA bots are dismantling fraud protection systems at Gmail and Windows Live [...]

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