To infinity and beyond? No! When Googlebot crawls the web, it often finds what we call an "infinite space". These are very large numbers of links that usually provide little or no new content for Googlebot to index. If this ha

Category :Search Engines | 2 views | read more | 2008-08-05 08:27:00

The Low-End Approach To Wireless Hacking Adrian writes "Zack Anderson, an MIT student, created a solution to wardriving on a budget: warcarting. The Warcart is a shopping cart retrofitted with just about every sort of wireless sniffing devic

Category :Technology | 2 views | read more | 2008-08-05 08:07:00

Mac users urged to ditch Safari US consumer group bemoans lack of phishing net Surfers should steer clear of Safari until it introduces better anti-phishing protection, a US consumer rights magazine has advised.…

Category :Security | 8 views | read more | 2008-08-05 07:46:44

FISA and Border Searches of Laptops With the recent attention to the DHS's draconian policy on laptop searches at borders, a blog post by Steven Bellovin from last month is worth wider discussion. Bellovin extrapolates from the DHS bord

Category :Technology | 2 views | read more | 2008-08-05 07:19:00

SEC Lets Companies Disclose Via Websites, Blogs edadams passes along a note in the ABA Journal that reads "Corporations may now sometimes fulfill their public disclosure requirements under Regulation FD by posting information on their websites and

Category :Technology | 8 views | read more | 2008-08-05 04:34:00

Hard 'core'? Birmingham City Council's net filtering No sex, drugs or cannibalism, please, we're Brummie Back in early July, the Birmingham Post reported on Birmingham City Council's adoption of online filtering software. It will block Council workers f

Category :Security | 8 views | read more | 2008-08-05 04:31:43

A Quasi-Quasicrystal An anonymous reader sends along a link to a mindbending article in Science News on quasicrystals — odd materials with a structure partway between order and disorder. Now researchers have found s

Category :Technology | 8 views | read more | 2008-08-05 01:47:00

A Quick Tutorial on JavaScript Bookmarklets Bookmarklets are very handy pieces of JavaScript code that you can bookmark. In HTML, if you want a link to open in a new window, you’d write it like this: <a href=”http://www.mattcutts

Category :Search Engines | 5 views | read more | 2008-08-05 00:25:57

USAF Violates DMCA, Escapes Unscathed eldavojohn recommends coverage at Ars on a Byzantine case just thrown out by an appeals court. The US Air Force cracked the code that would expire a piece of software. For this they were sued under th

Category :Technology | 6 views | read more | 2008-08-04 23:03:00

NASA's Mars News Is Not Life, But Perchlorate leighklotz writes "In an update to the little green men story of not-life-on-Mars, NASA has twittered: 'The buzz this weekend was due to an interesting soil chemistry finding, still preliminary, but n

Category :Technology | 5 views | read more | 2008-08-04 21:01:00