Mistyped tag leads to exposure of Tumblr DB passwords and API keys. Sometimes it doesn't matter how robust your security is or how diligently you maintain patches to your system as a single human can always be your weakest point in the operation. Tumblr learned this the hard way after a single mistyped letter exposed their database and API keys.
The information comes via Reddit where a user discovered the exposure. The error happened when a coder accidently typed i? Php instead i"<"? Php, Maxious states: Tumblr pushed a changeset to production (in /var/www/apps/tumblr/config/config.php) that lead to every page starting with "i? While the exposure was purely accidental, it shows that there is a need for greater checks and balances within Tumblr, which is something they addressed in a post on their blog: A human error caused some sensitive server configuration information to be exposed this morning. The exposure of any database is always alarming by the amount of data that could be obtained. This Real-Time, L.A.-Based Radiation Monitor Says Stop Freaking Out - Culture.
For anyone terrified that radiation from Japan is coming to cause devastation in America, something the chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has already called "very unlikely," keep an eye on this real-time radiation detector courtesy of EnviroReporter.com. According to EnviroReporter, the detector is located in the organization's Santa Monica office (that's right next to the beach, for out-of-towners) "approximately one meter off the ground in a wood-floored structure with built over crawlspace with soil foundation.
" What the detection unit is measuring is the Counts Per Minute of iodizing radiation, which EnviroReporter says is between 40 and 46 CPM for their site. Some sites have higher normal background CPM, while others are much lower. And when you're on a plane, the CPM level can climb up to 200 for hours at a time. The World's Most Ethical Companies - Forbes.com. Infographic: Waste in Space - Environment. Mail. Yahoo! Mail Blog. A Typewriter Is a Terrible Thing to Waste. Photos: Jack Zylkin OLD MEETS NEW: Three portable typewriters, a Royal [top], a Smith-Corona [middle], and an Underwood [bottom], come out of retirement to serve as keyboards for, respectively, a Dell all-in-one computer, an iMac, and an iPad. In the 1940s, my mother tapped out her college term papers on what was then a snazzy new Royal typewriter. In the 1970s, she gave it to me for my high school essays. I, too, may pass a manual typewriter on to my kids, but with a twist—a couple of circuit boards bodged to the bottom and a USB cable coming out the back.
It's the brainchild of Jack Zylkin, a Philadelphia-based electrical engineer who has designed a kit that makes the conversion reasonably easy for anyone who enjoys hands-on projects. Here's how the computer attached to the typewriter knows which key has been pressed: When a letter is typed, the key's metal support bar touches a single contact on the board. Assembling the kit is fairly straightforward. Designers Respond to Help Japan » Might&Wonder. In response to the earthquake and tsunami tragedy in Japan, designers have responded in the best way that they know. Creating these pieces below with the sale proceeds going to support the people of Japan in their time of need.
Sidenote: – If you know of any more posters let me know on twitter @mightandwonder and I will add them here. Click on the pieces below to be directed to place of purchase. 1. Help Japan poster by Signalnoise 2. Help Japan poster by W+K Studio 3. 4. 5. 6. The list was getting pretty long so venture on there are more pieces after the jump.. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 9.0 by Kurunya Tags: Earthquake, Help, japan, Red Cross, Tsunami. Google to launch a new social network called Circles [Update] Google doesn't exactly have a strong history when it comes to social platforms.
Google Wave was creative and unique but it never caught on with the masses and Google Buzz failed to take any marketshare from Twitter and is now all but dead. There is a new rumor out today that Google is going to unveil another attempt at a social platform. According to RWW.com, Google is expected to unveil Circles, possibly as soon as today, at the South by Southwest Interactive. RWW states: If what we've heard is correct, the service will offer photo, video and status message sharing. Everything users share on Circles will be shared only with the most appropriate circle of social contacts in their lives, not with all your contacts in bulk. Circles may be shown off at an event co-hosted tonight by the ACLU, an organization focused on privacy and the liberties it affords. If Google does come out with a new social platform, they have a long tough fight ahead. WebM for IE9. Ars reviews the iPad 2: big performance gains in a slimmer package. Apple's original iPad has taken off to levels none of us anticipated when it was launched one year ago.
Though it has very recently gotten some competition in the tablet space, the iPad still dominates the market and mindshare of new tablet buyers. After having sold 15 million units in nine months last year, Apple has now refined its design with the introduction of the iPad 2. What, exactly, is new about the iPad 2 that differentiates it from the previous model? That's what we're here to tell you. We reviewed the 16GB WiFi-only iPad—same as the model we used for our original iPad review last year—and for aesthetic purposes, we chose black over white. (What can we say? Physical differences The iPad 2, like its predecessor, has a 9.7" backlit multitouch display with a resolution of 1024 x 768 at 132 pixels per inch. So, the display is largely the same as before. Speaking of weight, Apple touts the slight weight change as one of the iPad 2's benefits.
World’s Dumbest Criminal Would Like to Add You As a ‘Friend’ « Above the Law: A Legal Tabloid - News and Colorful Commentary on Law Firms and the Legal Profession. The following tale of legal technology took place in our nation’s capital, although it seemed to draw more attention overseas. Last December, as winter’s grip began to take hold over Washington, D.C., Rodney Knight Jr. found himself in serious need of a heavy jacket. So he did what any of us would have done in these circumstances: he broke into someone’s house and took one. Knight kicked down the back door to the home of Marc Fisher, a metro columnist for the Washington Post, where he found his new winter jacket. In addition, being in a proactive mood, Knight decided to swipe two laptops and a bunch of cash.
Knight was so proud of his little heist that he felt the need to do a little bragging. Check out what one of the greatest criminal masterminds of the early 21st century did next…. Knight fired up the laptop that belonged to Fisher’s son and then took a picture of himself wearing the jacket and flaunting the cash he had taken. Small Firms, Big Lawyers: 7 Reasons to Avoid Social Media « Above the Law: A Legal Tabloid - News and Colorful Commentary on Law Firms and the Legal Profession. Ed. note: This is the latest installment of Small Firms, Big Lawyers, one of Above the Law’s new columns for small-firm lawyers. Most small law firms are staying away from social media when it comes to marketing, according to a new report from Chicago-based Total Attorneys.
The report, which you can see here (a short 6-page PDF), had a section about which marketing methods solos and small firms found most effective. The leading methods were: online directories (17.7%);word of mouth — which isn’t really a method, but more of a thing that happens (15.5%);group-advertising ventures (whatever the hell that is) (13.3%); andYellow Pages (8.9%). The takeaway for me from that list is that small-firm lawyers don’t know what they’re doing when it comes to marketing.
But the more-interesting fact to come out of this report is that two-thirds of respondents don’t do social-media marketing at all Only 35% report doing online networking, 37% use social media, and 33% write blogs. 1. Totally fair point. Forget Google – it's Apple that is turning into the evil empire | John Naughton | Comment is free | The Observer. Once upon a time, when Apple was mainly a computer manufacturer, people used to liken it to BMW.
That was because it made expensive, nicely designed products for a niche market made up of affluent, design-conscious customers who also served as enthusiastic – nay fanatical – evangelists for the brand. It was seen as innovative and quirky but not part of the industry's mainstream, which was dominated by Microsoft and the companies making the PCs that ran Windows software. This view of Apple was summed up by Jack Tramiel, the boss of Commodore, when Steve Jobs first showed him the Macintosh computer. "Very nice, Steve," growled Tramiel. "I guess you'll sell it in boutiques. " That was a long time ago. Now, with a market capitalisation of just over $331bn, Apple is the second most valuable company in the world – bigger than Microsoft ($220bn), Oracle ($167bn) or Google ($196bn). Every year, Fortune magazine polls a sample of US CEOs asking for their opinions of their competitors.
Qualia Technologies of Understanding - Ανάλυση γνώμης για το φράκτη στον Έβρο. Google reacts to Japanese tsunami with a Person Finder tool. Now this is the sort of activity you'd expect from a true search giant. Instead of sitting on its hands during the tsunami that has stricken Japan today, Google has put together a Person Finder tool where people worried about the plight of their loved ones can look them up by name.
There are only a few thousand records up on the site at the moment, but it should still be a useful repository for missing person data, particularly since mobile networks were taken down by the tsunami's damage earlier this morning. Information should also start piling up as recovery efforts continue. Let's just hope this Person Finder won't have to be used for too long and things can be brought back to normal soon. Comments. Tips and downloads for getting things done. Pr0n stars to demo against .xxx. High performance access to file storage Porn stars are set to rally against the proposed .xxx top-level domain name outside the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) public meeting in San Francisco next week.
The Free Speech Coalition (FSC), a porn trade group, has called a press conference and rally outside the Westin St Francis Hotel in Union Square at 12.30pm, 17 March. FSC president Diane Duke has invited "all industry professionals and supporters of the adult entertainment community" to show up to the protest. The organisation believes .xxx will harm the adult entertainment business.
It believes the domain invites censorship and blocking, and that the proposed registry operator, ICM Registry, sees dollar signs but does not have the best interests of the industry in mind. ICM has previously stated its belief that the FSC is a California-centric organisation that does not represent the interests of porn webmasters worldwide. Porn stars join religion in protest against .xxx domain.
Here is a sudden turn of events: porn stars are siding with those who are against the addition of the proposed .xxx top-level domain. In an effort to show their stance, the stars will be rallying outside of a public meeting next week in San Francisco by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). The organization behind the rally is the Free Speech Coalition, a pornography trade group who has "called a press conference and rally outside the Westin St Francis Hotel in Union Square at 12.30pm, 17 March," according to The Register.
Those in the industry who are opposed to this new domain fear that collecting all sites of adult nature into one top-level domain is an invitation for censorship, claiming that the registry operator for .xxx, ICM Registry, is not thinking for the industry but instead for itself. Both Christian groups and the porn business are opposed to this new domain, causing ICANN to have to create new appeal and review methods to appease all sides. Beauty of the Web. Things magazine - because you're worth it. Things magazine / about / what's new? / archive / photos / projects / order The Pelican Project back to projects The 1930s The 1940s The 1950s The 1960s The 1970s The 1980s. Telephony. When we think of the cloud often we have to think of the negative consequences, of diminishing the rights of users and removing their control even over their own computing. When combined with an illegitimate surveillance state and abusive monopolies that believe they have the right to look at people’s private data and communications at whim, this puts basic liberty, and even the life, of people engaging in entirely legitimate activities in danger from that most basic human need, that of communicating and sharing with each other.
However, not all ideas for cloud computing need be based on or potentially offer anti-social and otherwise destructive outcomes. Much of cloud computing infrastructure of course also uses free software. True software freedom even includes the freedom of some to misuse. Openshift itself was originally called Makara and part of a company that RedHat acquired in 2010. First, they make use of git and shell access to deploy applications. Cell phones are 'Stalin's dream,' says free software movement founder. Nearly three decades into his quest to rid the world of proprietary software, Richard Stallman sees a new threat to user freedom: smartphones.
"I don't have a cell phone. I won't carry a cell phone," says Stallman, founder of the free software movement and creator of the GNU operating system. "It's Stalin's dream. Cell phones are tools of Big Brother. I'm not going to carry a tracking device that records where I go all the time, and I'm not going to carry a surveillance device that can be turned on to eavesdrop.
" Stallman firmly believes that only free software can save us from our technology, whether it be in cell phones, PCs, tablets or any other device. To continue reading, register here to become an Insider It's FREE to join Network World - Nearly three decades into his quest to rid the world of proprietary software, Richard Stallman sees a new threat to user freedom: smartphones. ON BOARD: Microsoft: 'We love open source' Ironically enough, Stallman was speaking to me on a cell phone.
Google to Launch Major New Social Network Called Circles, Possibly Today (Updated)