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DNS Changer malware: what you need to know
You may have heard about yet another new virus threat that’s making headlines today. As many news outlets have been reporting – with greater and greater urgency – there is a new form of “malware”...
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“Assume all PCs are infected.”
The EU may be having its share of problems, but at least their banking regulatory systems are starting to take online banking security seriously. Sure, that’s largely because the threat right now is...
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Twitter is asking you to reset your password. Do it.
Every once in a while, we go through this. For one reason or another, Twitter asks to reset your password. Typically, they only send out emails asking you to do this when the situation’s gotten pretty...
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Wait. How many requests does our government make for our Google data?
Google has released its latest Transparency Report for 2012 and the big story in most of the media is that 88% of the time, Google complies with government subpoenas. We’re all supposed to suck in our...
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Twitter and the NYT: what is DNS?
On Tuesday of this week, Twitter, the New York Times, Huffington Post and a raft of other websites suddenly found their traffic getting rerouted to servers Russia and Syria. The rerouting was due to a...
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Hope you enjoyed the midgets, fellas: the NSA now snooping your porn viewing...
Congratulations, America! Your high-calibre technology and dread fear of terrorism has yielded the finest vehicle for panty-sniffing the world has ever known. Not content to simply read your emails or...
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Scan tech for ancient paintings at may be the cure for the TSA junk shot
Imagine a world in which your naughty bits are treated with the same loving care by TSA as are the ancient works of the great masters of our species’ art. That world may be coming soon, if tetrahertz...
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WTF is #Heartbleed? And should I hoard gold?
While mainstream media reports seem tepid, there is a drum beat of increasing concern on social about the newest Internet threat, Heartbleed. With a name like that, it certainly seems bad. But what...
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What price security? Google signals that security will affect site’s ranking
Is Google in any position to dictate what is safe and what is not on the Internet? Is this a net win for the Internet, or a step in the wrong direction?
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Is Lovely Warren committing a crime by sharing her password? The Ninth...
The Mayor's Office is committed to its story that Mayor Lovely Warren's Facebook account has been "compromised." What does that mean, and was it a result of criminal negligence? The federal court...
View ArticleThis Republican Moment, Visualized as Punnett Squares
Late Update: As of 3:40 this afternoon, the AHCA bill got pulled from the floor and there will be no vote today, if ever. So we can say for sure that environmental pressures elicited a complete...
View ArticleFake News: 5 Ways to Not Become an Online News Luddite
The fake news got to us. And I suppose the result was obvious. A wellspring has bubbled up through the blogosphere and is now producing blog articles sounding the alarm: other blogs might be “fake...
View ArticleThe House GOP’s AHCA Health Care Bill is Cruel. Because it Had to Be.
Let’s all remember how we got here. Before Obamacare, before the Tea Party, before the election of Barack Obama, we had a healthcare crisis. Premiums were skyrocketing. Insurance companies were cutting...
View ArticleTop 5 Things That Don’t Last as Long as James Sheppard’s non-Voting Record
I’m sure I’ve been slow-on-the-stick on this score, but it’s only just been made clear to me that James Sheppard, the former Rochester City Police Chief and current candidate for the Democratic...
View ArticleRelax. Your Brain is not “Eating Itself.”
By now, you almost certainly have run across an article like this one in the New York Post. A breathless headline about zombie brains eating themselves announces a slightly-less apocalyptic article...
View ArticleIn the sport of White House leaks, The Mooch gives a master class
Have you read this article? Of course you have. What’s weird to me is this: after almost a week of discussion on Twitter, on television and at water coolers everywhere, I have yet to hear anyone state...
View ArticleRothization: Peter? Meet Paul.
The Republicans are proposing massive tax cuts, including a 15-point decrease in the Corporate tax rate from 35 down to 20, in their new tax code “reform” bill. But to do so, they need to at least have...
View ArticleI just can’t get that upset by Louis C.K.
Louis C.K. is not the first of my comedy heroes to disappoint me. Bill Cosby’s early comedy was so a part of my life and way of thinking that I still catch myself launching into a sketch of his by way...
View ArticleRochester 10-72: is this the way it normally works?
As much as I think Officer Jeff McEntee ought to be raked over the coals for whatever the events of Black Friday morning turn out to be, another issue has my attention. According to Bob Lonsberry, the...
View ArticleDon’t count your continuing resolutions before their signed.
Goodie gumdrops. The government is ..de-shutdown, I guess? No one seems all that happy with the result. Lots of liberals and immigration activists are incandescent with fury. I can’t pretend to share...
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