Court Says Employees Have No Expectation Of Privacy For Stuff On Company Owned Computers (4)
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A court ruling in New Jersey doesn't seem all that surprising, but may lead to more legal questions in the future. The case involved an employee who was stealing from his employer. The employee was eventually found guilty of the theft, but argued that the evidence used against him was gathered illegally, in that it was in a password protected file on his company-owned laptop. It's actually a little more confusing, as the guy actually ...
The phone phreaking files (4)
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[Jason Scott] curated a nice collection of links related to [Phil Lapsley]’s work on phone phreaking. [Lapsley]’s book, The History of Phone Phreaking, will be released in 2009. Meanwhile phone phreak enthusiasts can peruse his site and bone up on some interesting material, including documents that revealed the inner workings of the telephone switchboard(PDF), and the Youth International Party Line (YIPL)/Technological American Party (TAP) FBI files(PDF), which is really intriguing for the various doodles and ...
History hacker (5)
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Our first MAKE host for weekend projects Bre Pettis, has a new show coming out this month on the History Channel called "History Hacker" - congrats Bre, looking forward to watching! Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Announcements | Digg this!
Contest: Cory Doctorow's Cipher Wheel Rings (6)
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Cory Doctorow wanted a secret decoder wedding ring, and he asked me to help design it. I wanted something more than the standard secret decoder ring, so this is what I asked for: "I want each wheel to be the alphabet, with each letter having either a dot above, a dot below, or no dot at all. The first wheel should have alternating above, none, below. The second wheel should be the repeating sequence of ...
Twitter Targeted by Malware Distributors [Darknet - The Darkside] (2)
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This one is of interest to me as I do actually use Twitter as a microblogging service and to keep up with what various friends are up to. It’s quite an interesting wep app especially paired with something like Twitterfox in your browser and Twibble in your mobile phone. It must have made it big now though [...] Read the full post at darknet.org.uk
The Problem With Being Well-Hydrated (2)
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Years ago, I edited a computer programmer’s magazine (Visual C++ Developers Journal, to which I’m sure all of you subscribed). The publisher was based in California, but I worked remotely, subletting an office from a real estate agent. Since I worked remotely, I was on the phone almost constantly. Talking to authors. Talking to editors. Talking to layout. Talking to the publisher. Talking, talking, talking. Drink Up At the time, I was training very seriously, ...
Paper box templates (3)
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Not martha found this great collection of paper box templates - great for gift boxes or storing bits 'n' bobs. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Kids | Digg this!
