The first week of August is traditionally Provincetown’s family week, and so a lot of families have passed through in the past couple of days. What surprised me was the level of panic amongst parents in relation to the novel Swine Flu pandemic (H1N1). Don’t get me wrong, you can’t see a whole bunch of [...]

Let’s face it, Windows Vista was broadly rejected by the general public for its alleged lack of stability, performance issues and hardware incompatibility. After Apple’s public humiliation of Vista, in its well-known Get a Mac ads, it wouldn’t be unreasonable to expect that the Microsoft team would bend over backwards to avoid another PR nightmare by rolling out a perfectly [...]

Check out this hilarious review of the new Star Trek movie. [...]

According to CBS News, in December 2006 a US customs’ officer performed a random search of a laptop that was found on the back seat of a car belonging to a Sebastien Boucher. After the officer found files with names such as “Two year old being raped during diaper change,” he charged Boucher with “transporting [...]

Unlike most of my relatives, I don’t keep a TV set on for a better part of the day. I don’t watch TV much and prefer getting news from other sources, either the Internet or hard print. However, during this year’s Christmas Eve gathering at my father’s place (in Serbia, most people celebrate Christmas on [...]

For quite some time, the issue of whether or not cryptography should be subjected to governmental control was very hot. A little over a year ago I wrote a research paper defending the side of privacy activists who claim that its usage should be unrestricted.

I shared their view until very recently when I read about a new computer virus, Gpcode, which uses RSA to encrypt a victim’s hard drive and demand ransom for data on it. [...]

According to this article, the Internet as we know it will come to an end in a couple of years because all Internet Service Providers (ISPs) will agree to introduce a new billing system that will look like the system used today by most cable TV companies. The system will divide all websites into packages. Before accessing a website, users will have to subscribe to the package that particular website belongs to. The change is due to come about in 2012. In case you haven’t figured it out so far, all this is one huge pile of BS. [...]

AUBG’s sole Baron, Aernout van Lynden, finally got back into clothing appropriate to his title in a play directed by Siyka Doneva this semester. Aside from noble clothing, the Baron also got an opportunity to deal with a dragon, command a secret society of a truly ghastly nature, and have a chat with the Grim Reaper. [...]

What follows is an excerpt from a BBC’s report which was recently mentioned on SecurityMusings.com.

“More than 70% of people would reveal their computer password in exchange for a bar of chocolate, a survey has found.” [...]

The Washington Post published an interesting article the other day named: “When Mom or Dad Asks To Be a Facebook ‘Friend’.”
The article raises several interesting questions and a privacy issue. Even though the need for privacy is a part of human nature, sometimes people want to share parts of their private lives, but only with [...]