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Controversial Google library project grows

January 23rd, 2007 by LinuxChick

Google announced that another major US college library had joined its controversial project to put the world’s books online.

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MySpace to send U.S. users missing children alerts

January 23rd, 2007 by LinuxChick

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Popular online social network MySpace said on Tuesday it will begin sending online alerts to users in certain U.S. regions to help find missing children as part of an expansion of plans to expand safeguards for users.

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Foil Wireless Poachers and Have Fun Doing It.

January 23rd, 2007 by LinuxChick

“I Could Encrypt It or I Could Have Fun”

A lot of folks have an unhealthily casual attitude towards securing their wireless networks. “Oh, it’s nice to share” some say. Others think “I have nothing to interest a cracker, so why bother?” Both attitudes are inviting trouble. There is nothing to be gained from leaving your systems open to be used as warez, porn or mp3 servers, or Borged into a spam botnet. Or to find yourself struggling with slow network speeds because some freeloading hog is overloading your bandwidth.

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Who said security had to be boring.

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