Ramblings & ephemera
From Joel Hruska’s “Meet Son of Storm, Srizbi 2.0: next-gen botnets come online” (Ars Technica: 15 January 2009):
First the good news: SecureWorks reports that Storm is dead, Bobax/Kraken is moribund, and both Srizbi and Rustock were heavily damaged by the McColo takedown; Srizbi is now all but silent, while Rustock remains viable. That’s three significant [...]
Posted on January 19th, 2009 by Scott Granneman
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From Darryl K. Taft’s “Predictions for the Cloud in 2009” (eWeek: 29 December 2008):
[Peter] Coffee, who is now director of platform research at Salesforce.com, said, “I’m currently using a simple reference model for what a ‘cloud computing’ initiative should try to provide. I’m borrowing from the famous Zero-One-Infinity rule, canonically defined in The Jargon File…”
He [...]
Posted on January 8th, 2009 by Scott Granneman
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From Ronald A. Cass’ “Madoff Exploited the Jews” (The Wall Street Journal: 18 December 2008):
Steven Spielberg. Elie Wiesel. Mort Zuckerman. Frank Lautenberg. Yeshiva University. As I read the list of people and enterprises reportedly bilked to the tune of $50 billion by Bernard Madoff, I recalled a childhood in which my father received bad news [...]
Posted on January 6th, 2009 by Scott Granneman
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From John Harlow’s “Amateur crimefighters are surging in the US” (The Times: 28 December 2008):
There are, according to the recently launched World Superhero Registry, more than 200 men and a few women who are willing to dress up as comic book heroes and patrol the urban streets in search of, if not super-villains, then pickpockets [...]
Posted on January 4th, 2009 by Scott Granneman
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From Marcus Wohlsen’s “Amateurs are trying genetic engineering at home” (AP: 25 December 2008):
Now, tinkerers are working at home with the basic building blocks of life itself.
Using homemade lab equipment and the wealth of scientific knowledge available online, these hobbyists are trying to create new life forms through genetic engineering — a field long dominated [...]
Posted on January 4th, 2009 by Scott Granneman
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