In Through The Out Door

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Adobe Donates $7,500:As is now visible on the donations page, Adobe has donated $7,500 to help fund OpenBSD and OpenSSH development. Hopefully as more well-known companies demonstrate that they understand that giving back to open source helps themselves, it will become harder for the others to justify their all-take-and-no-give feeling of entitlement.

News: The RFID Hacking Underground:I just need to bump into James and get my hand within a few inches of him,“ Westhues says. We’re shivering in the early spring air outside the offices of Sandstorm, the Internet security company Van Bokkelen runs north of Boston…. A coil of copper wire flashes briefly in Westhues’ palm, then disappears.Van Bokkelen enters the building, and Westhues returns to me. ”Let’s see if I’ve got his keys,“ he says, meaning the signal from Van Bokkelen’s smartcard badge. The card contains an RFID sensor chip, which emits a short burst of radio waves when activated by the reader next to Sandstorm’s door.

Forget the NSA. Here’s another very scary list. Are you included?:Every time a massive data theft or breaches happens, I keep kicking myself for not starting up that list of all such compromises that I promised myself I would start (and maintain here on ZDNet). The last one of these, which I think is also the largest, involved 26.5 million records containing the [...]

Voice Encryption May Draw U.S. Scrutiny

UNIX Tips for Mac OS X

Mavs send Spurs packing with OT win:Read full story for latest details.

NAS from Linux:Network attached storage (NAS) allows using TCP/IP network to backup files. This enables multiple servers in an IDC to share the same storage for backup at once, which minimizes overhead by centrally managing hard disks.The protocol used with NAS is a file-based protocol such as NFS or Microsoft’s Common Internet File System (CIFS).

20 Second Timeout: Series Has Had Everything:Regardless of how this ends up, one of the great playoff series in recent NBA history will come to a close this evening, and I’m not talking about the Suns and Clippers, although that has also been a good series.

Understanding OS X Kernel Internals:The OS X kernel has been in the news alot this past year, whether it’s why its slow, Mach/micro-kernel makes it bad, it’s going closed source and what not. Amit Singh has put up a new presentation on the innards of OS X. It does a pretty good job of summing up the OS X kernel architecture, and has some pretty detailed diagrams… for instance they show that there are so many process/threads layers in OS X. So if you are in the mood for doing some OS studying then head over.“

Intel Macs Vulnerable To ‘Chip Level’ Threats:

Personal Data of 26.5M Veterans Stolen:

New IM Worm Installs Own Web Browser:Aquafinality writes “A new IM worm discovered recently takes the novel step of installing its own web browser onto the victims PC. Ironically titled ”The Safety Browser“, its default settings actually make your PC less secure - switching on pop-ups, changing your home page and hijacking your desktop with a looped music track that plays every time you switch your computer on. It’s clear people cannot resist clicking ”yes“ to anything they’re presented with via IM - with this in mind, what on Earth can we do so stop the spread of garbage like the above? To put it another way, will reducing the amount of potential ”suckers“ out there dissuade the bad guys from coming up with ever-more elaborate ideas such as this latest scam? Or is IM safety a lost cause?”

Making USB drives secure
Memory Experts International has the key

The Scientific Way To Rank Beers:The top 100 beers of the world.

Ginobili, Duncan Big as Spurs Top Mavs in Game 6:Manu Ginobili scored 30 points and Tim Duncan had a big second half to lead the Spurs to a 91-86 victory over the Mavericks in Game Six of their Western Conference semifinal series.

Ars Technica Reviews the MacBook:phaedo00 writes “Ars Technica has performed another of their in-depth and thorough hardware reviews…. From the article: ‘The Apple portable web site proudly announces that the ”family is finally complete.“ What began with an announcement from Steve Jobs at the MacWorld conference in January has come full circle with the release of the MacBook this week. Every Apple laptop is Intel powered and moving in what I would consider is the right direction. The laptop line is finally better delineated by pro and consumer features, and the prices have been fixed at points that better reflect the minute differences in the models.’”

Spurs Survive Against Mavericks, Pull Within 3-2:Manu Ginobili and Bruce Bowen made great defensive plays down the stretch and the San Antonio Spurs held on for a season-saving 98-97victory over the Dallas Mavericks in Game 5 of the Western Conference Semifinals.

Faster remote desktop connections with FreeNXUsed this great application in the past. Current frustrations:I am running F/C 5 on a first generation Mac Mini.

Mac OS X Kernel Source Now Closed:littleghoti writes “Macworld is reporting that ”Thanks to pirates, or rather the fear of them, the Intel edition of Apple’s OS X is now a proprietary operating system.“ Mac developers and power users no longer have the freedom to alter, rebuild, and replace the OS X kernel from source code.”