See Who's Editing Wikipedia - Diebold, the CIA, a Campaign
Topic: Technology
12:09 pm EDT, Aug 15, 2007
Wikipedia Scanner -- the brainchild of CalTech computation and neural-systems graduate student Virgil Griffith -- offers users a searchable database that ties millions of anonymous Wikipedia edits to organizations where those edits apparently originated, by cross-referencing the edits with data on who owns the associated block of internet IP addresses.
I was writing an application for creating a manifest for JavaScript. I was unable to do it using DOM; instead I wrote my own application for parsing JavaScript files. It is little tough to peek into JavaScript objects, initial I could only get the members and fields using for-in. but that was not enough, what if someone stored a file locally and I have to write code to execute it, I would be able to get only the members, just executing members without passing the required input parameter if any will not work. The code below will parse the file and give me the options as to what input is required and if something is returned what it could possibly be returning except primitive types. Knowing these things in advance makes it easier to execute the code. Well it worked for me; let’s see how it works for you. I know many people are looking for something like this.
The real danger is the gradual erosion of individual liberties through the automation, integration, and interconnection of many small, separate record-keeping systems, each of which alone may seem innocuous, even benevolent, and wholly justifiable. -----U.S. Privacy Protection Study Commission, 1977
The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse (PRC) is a nonprofit consumer organization with a two-part mission -- consumer information and consumer advocacy. It was established in 1992 and is based in San Diego, California. It is primarily grant-supported and serves individuals nationwide.
The PRC's goals are to: * Raise consumers' awareness of how technology affects personal privacy. * Empower consumers to take action to control their own personal information by providing practical tips on privacy protection. * Respond to specific privacy-related complaints from consumers, intercede on their behalf, and, when appropriate, refer them to the proper organizations for further assistance. * Document the nature of consumers' complaints and questions about privacy in reports, testimony, and speeches and make them available to policy makers, industry representatives, consumer advocates, and the media.Advocate for consumers' privacy rights in local, state, and federal public policy proceedings, including legislative testimony, regulatory agency hearings, task forces, and study commissions as well as conferences and workshops.
Google Code for Educators - Introduction to Web Security
Topic: Technology
10:47 am EDT, Jul 30, 2007
Nice to see a corporation reaching out to academia in this fashion. I'm sure part charity, part if you want something done right (in this case developer education), do it yourself.
Sounds MAD! Mutual assured destruction (MAD) is a doctrine of military strategy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by one of two opposing sides would effectively result in the destruction of both the attacker and the defender.
Software patent does not have a universally accepted definition. One definition suggested by the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure is that a software patent is a "patent on any performance of a computer realized by means of a computer program".
There is intense debate over the extent to which software patents should be granted, if at all. Criticisms of software patents include:
* Whether software is patentable; and * Whether the inventive step and non-obviousness requirement is too easily satisified for software.
For example, an attacker could determine that a specific website visitor “Bob” has called an embarrassing number such as an escort service. An attacker can also trick or force Bob into dialing any other telephone number without his consent such a 900-number owned by the attacker or an international number. Finally, an attacker can lock Bob’s phone forcing Bob to either make the call or hard-reset his phone resulting in possible data loss.
Told you it would mention an escort service.
Should of said: For example, an attacker could determine that a specific website visitor “Dick” has called an embarrassing number such as an escort service.
