Month: July 2008

Insecure Banks

More than 75% of the bank Web sites surveyed had at least 1 design flaw that could make customers vulnerable to cyber thieves after their money or even their identity.

root cause: a belief that the web site is a cost center, while wasting money on countless branch offices. no wonder they can only afford incompetent web technology.
2013-11-06: if you thought banks encrypt the traffic on their international leased lines, well…
2014-01-11:

90% contained several non-SSL links throughout the application. This allows an attacker to intercept the traffic and inject arbitrary JavaScript/HTML code in an attempt to create a fake login prompt or similar scam.

50% of the apps are vulnerable to JavaScript injections via insecure UIWebView implementations. In some cases, the native iOS functionality was exposed, allowing actions such as sending SMS or emails from the victim’s device.

in the move from shitty websites to shitty “apps”, we’re going backwards several years as implementers have to relearn all security lessons. you probably don’t want to trust any “apps” from your financial institution.

Googlization of Everything

As you can tell from the title of this blog, the book will be about Google and all they ways that Google is shaking up the world. Google is a transformative and revolutionary company. I hesitate to use terms like that. We live in an era of hyperbole. So I try my best to discount claims of historical transformation or communicative revolutions.

a book in the making

Beating the Heat

The northern hemisphere is feeling the summer heat. A number of heat waves have already rolled across parts of southern Europe,the United States and Asia. From swimming pools to rivers, wave pools, ocean beaches and more, here are some recent photos of people around the world having fun, competing and keeping cool in the water

kogokiak++ those are amazing

Plastic coffee

2 cups of McDonald’s iced coffee (BUY!) sit on the Fox 5 TV news desk, a punch-you-in-the-face product placement (BUY!) to chase down your morning news. They’’re still looking every bit as frosty and tantalizing (BUY!) as they were the first day you laid your eyes on them. They’re not real. Fake coffee on the news, 2 plastic cups permanently filled with some kind of bogus drink. The anchors aren’t even supposed to acknowledge them, McDonald’s reps explain.

iced coffee from ginormous containers is always fake

Crapware-free PC

Sony is finally taking on its crapware problem. For the past 2 months, I’ve been using an astonishingly light and agile Sony VAIO notebook and loving every minute of it. The best part of all was that this machine was absolutely, completely, unequivocally crapware-free, which meant I was able to be productive within a few minutes of unboxing.

now where is the apple hardware free of crapware like “mail.app”?