Trojan horse scanner pitch is a sneaky worm
Trojan horse scanner pitch is a sneaky worm
You know, even when it’s a pitch for a trojan scanner, why would anyone install something that was sent to them unsolicited?
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Trojan horse scanner pitch is a sneaky worm
You know, even when it’s a pitch for a trojan scanner, why would anyone install something that was sent to them unsolicited?
Follow these topics: Tech
Thanks to Andy, and others, for the suggestion of HTTrack, While it didn’t download the whole site cleanly, being able to see what it was doing helped me realize what problem I was running into. It seems that this particular site uses a 404 in place of any page that doesn’t exist, rather than redirecting…
Well, yes, technically speaking any festival that gathers thousands of people in the same place on the same weekend is social in nature. But, I’m specifically talking about an interesting use of online social networking. If you look at the Entertainment Schedule for the Dublin Irish Festival coming up July 31-Aug 2, you’ll see the…
I read this recent quote from an article about Ev Williams this week and something seemed oddly familiar about it: The trouble with the internet, Mr. Williams says, is that it rewards extremes. Say you’re driving down the road and see a car crash. Of course you look. Everyone looks. The internet interprets behavior like…
I’ve probably seen that Samsung commercial a dozen times over the last few days. The one that makes a pretty good mockery of people waiting in line for the iPhone 5. The one that makes a really good point about all the things that still, STILL, aren’t available for iPhone users, that we could have…
Ultimately, this is the problem with wide-scaled facial recognition use. It’s going to “find” a lot of similar looking people. For an extreme example of what can go wrong, take data recently released by an EU Freedom of Information request and then posted by the South Wales police. It shows that at the Champions League…
First off, these thoughts are related to the fact that I have the smallest text plan my carrier offers. I think it’s something like 200 texts per month, coming and going. I really don’t use it much, mostly to send my wife a quick note when one of us is mobile, or to send the…