Archive for July, 2010
Biometric and Other Locks Fail to Foil Hackers at DefCon
LAS VEGAS — It wouldn’t be DefCon without a noted lock hacking team demonstrating the gross insecurity of some of the latest security locks, such as a biometric lock that could be easily cracked with a paper clip.
Do Not Call List Tops 200 Million, Some Still Ignore It
The Federal Trade Commission announced a milestone this week: its Do Not Call registry has just passed 200 million numbers. It’s quite amazing that any of this came to pass, really.
Analysis: Google Stumbles, Again, With China Outage Report
Google mistakenly reported Thursday that China began censoring its web search again. It’s a blunder that adds to a list of missteps over the last six months that have the net’s top tech company looking unprofessional.
American iPad Users Pay Among the Highest for Data Worldwide
Accessing data on the iPad is the United States is a lot more expensive than almost anywhere in the world. American users pay some of the highest prices in terms of dollars per gigabyte of data on the iPad.
Physicists Dream Up the Antilaser
Fifty years after physicists invented the laser, ushering in everything from supermarket scanners to music CDs, scientists have conceived its opposite — the “antilaser.”