Cars.gov – You or a dealer can agree to let the Feds Snoop

Thanks for point this out to me Bill. It’s a toss up on whether to post this here or on my political blog. I hate the Obama Administration and Congress (both sides of the aisle) – and people were worried about NSA wiretaps? Right. Here is the summary: If you are dumb enough to agree to cars.gov, then you agree …

Fake BSOD – Blue Screen of Death

———— It infects Windows machines via fake codec and fake Flash Player update packages planted on malicious Web sites.———— http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=3912&tag=nl.e550 I’ve been preaching about this for some time now – one of the worst things about sites such as MySpace is when users are prompted to download and install something to watch a video. It happens far too often-and not …

Trouble with Bellsouth and Yahoo email

Retweeted: 3-25-2010 ATT did a stupid partnership deal with Yahoo a couple of years ago to provide email services through Yahoo, and they have done it without proper warning to customers. That means that some of you using services such as Gmail to pop3 your Bellsouth email in – suddenly find it not working. I’ve also had customers who try …

Want LoJac for your Laptop? Think again.

As usual, something has been designed without a good forethought on security ramifications. Recovering your computer from thieves sounds great in marketing materials – but it comes with a price. If you have purchased a computer with the ability to contact Lojac, then you are at risk. No you don’t have to subscribe to CompuTrace LoJac – you just have …

Embedding iPhone Video

Reposting this article – and tweeting it. It was originally published on Aug 2, 2009. Well I’ve been wanting to do this for a while so I finally sat down, googled around, looked at code, and figured out an easy way to embed iPhone video in html. First we need to detect the iPhone’s userAgent string and redirect to another …