The throw away DVD
The future of DVD rental could be changing forever with the introduction of a new DVD system which is only viewable for forty eight hours. After this time the DVD is rendered unreadable and has no use at all and so can be thrown away.
It is estimated that these DVD’s could be sold for around [...]
Internet privacy in danger
In the states they have the same problem as we are about to get here in the UK when it comes to internet privacy. Like here internet service providers in the states have been monitoring their customer’s internet surfing activities, which for most users is not really acceptable.
The idea behind this is for the ISP’s [...]
Having fun with some ones computer
As this is the season of silly pranks, we thought it a right that we should publish a list pranks that would initially feel the security of the users internet or computer has been compromised, but in reality this is just a prank, which is funny but probably not at the time.
This is a list [...]
Some pirates are good
Despite all of the bad publicity that surrounds downloading copyrighted material, it would seem that the average person that may download the occasional piece of music, video or even software these people could actually be doing the copyright owners, normally those large media companies, a bit of favour.
How does this work? It is simple really, [...]
Computer security risk to high for insurers
Insuring your computer against a security threat is virtually impossible, in fact the whole area of computing whether it be in business of personal computing, the risk is the same and there is in fact not much data available on what sort threats there are that can attack a users personal items. The problem is [...]
March 14, 2008By passing the sign up process
It seems that no matter what sort of problem you may have, the first process in finding a solution would be enter the terms into your favourite search engine. Within seconds there are a whole load of answers for you, and more or less every time you find the right answer it is on a [...]
March 13, 2008Inventor of email did not think about spam
Having the privilege of sending the very first email ever sent, is something that only the inventor of the system could claim, but when Ray Tomlinson thought up the email system one thing that never even popped into his mind was the fact that one day people would use this system to send junk mail [...]
March 11, 2008NSA monitors emails and online transactions
The National Security Agency (NSA) has been involved in something that could go beyond the big brother label in fact this goes well beyond it. So what are they doing that is so bad, after all the US and UK are fully at war with terrorist threat and so we should expect them to be [...]
February 14, 2008US feel Second Life is a terrorist haven
It seems that nothing is sacred on the internet, and communities like Second Life are increasing coming under suspicion as being a place where terrorists can gather and organize their finances, plans and in general gather intelligence.
This information is coming from US intelligence officials who have be warning for some time that these places could [...]
Google uses anti spam firm
Now its Googles time to expand, since buying the anti spam and business security firm Postini last year for $625 million, they have virally left it alone to run its own business as it was doing before the purchase but it now seems that things are about to change.
Google is no longer just about search, [...]
Open ID with Yahoo
The idea behind Open ID is nothing new, there have been many rumours that some of the internets big guns such as Google, IBM and Verisign are interested in operating an Open ID framework where a user can sign in on just main account and in turn get access to all of the accounts that [...]
January 14, 2008Prisoners to be chipped
We talk about computer security, where we protect our machines against outside attacks, but today we are hearing about the governments plans to implant prisoners with a chip that has a RFID tag. This can then be tracked and so therefore the prisoner can too.
These are worrying times for the ordinary person in the UK; [...]
Where to get free music
There was a time when the internet was free and easy, but times have changed which has meant that the whole theory of the free and unrestricted access of the net has disappeared and in its place has formed an internet police who track down anyone who file shares etc.
But there are still places where [...]
Copying a CD, legal or not?
According to the UK government it should be legal and the Intellectual Property Minister Lord Triesman has been saying that these laws should keep up with the times, as many people have been copying CD’s onto their computers for sometime now, even though this is against the copyright laws.
Even the industry itself has given a [...]
The top ten torrent sites
With 2007 in the past now it’s that time of year when we start to see lists of what has done well, and torrents are no different, they have their own little place on the net and there is a top ten of these sites that have got some serious traffic.
Here is the list, as [...]
Is it time for change on piracy
Morals and regulations are not really the sort of the words that you would first think of when you are talking about piracy and software fraud. But there are people who are thinking just that at the moment, but before we get started on what is right and what is wrong, we have to try [...]
December 21, 2007PDF software does not have to be expensive
Creating a document in PDF is great, you can make the presentation look professional, send easily via email and know that it is pretty safe and secure; however there is one slight problem the software from Adobe is expensive.
However there are alternatives which are very reasonable in price but the quality of the software is [...]
Facebook used in study
In a study being made by researchers at Harvard and UCLA, Facebook is being used as a testing ground for their studies in relationships, tastes and habits and this relates to the way social relationships, the study is using certain classes at one college for this research.
Facebook is a network of over 58 million users [...]
Big brother is the real deal
It would seem that everything that we have feared about the government listening in on our conversations and having a little look at our emails is not just confined to films and TV programmes.
In the US the National Security Agency have the technology to do exactly that by listening in on phone calls, looking at [...]
DNS Threat via malware
Researchers at Google and the Georgia Institute of Technology have found some serious problems with open recursive DNS servers who are behaving badly, these are DNS servers which will take a request from anywhere.
By poisoning these servers this enables a piece a malware which will send a request anywhere, and as these sites are false [...]