Posted on: 2006-04-01 07:51:09
No fools here.....
Ok, maybe a couple....Download:
http://www.thetechnologygeeks.com/shows/040106.mp3
Links mentioned:
http://www.maximumpc.com
http://www.majorgeeks.com/SpywareBlaster_d2859.html
Feature:
· Interview with Will Smith
· Highlighting the April Issue of Maximum PC
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Jim’s GEEK OF THE WEEK SOFTWARE PICK:
Website of the week.
- Here is stupid website – for people who want to buy a Spoon!
- There’s one for $624.00.
http://www.boored.co.uk/visit.cgi?http://www.nickjohnford.co.uk/buymyspoon/
Announcements:
o Jeff Grower president of the Central NY PC Users Group will be on air to talk about the upcoming CNYPCUG meeting being held on Monday, April 3, 2006 at the Liverpool Public Library beginning @ 6PM.
o April’s topic is “Macintosh OS-X Tiger” - Chris Zazzara, Vice-President of the Syracuse Macintosh Users Group (iSMUG.org), will help us “have a look over the backyard fence at what our neighbors are doing” with the latest Operating System from Macintosh.
o Members & non-members are requested to register to attend all meeting. Registration forms are available online at http://www.cnypcug.org/reserve.
o Of course your calls at 421-9325.
News Items Mentioned:
MySpace acts to calm teen safety fears
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/3f8a53d4-c01c-11da-939f-0000779e2340.html
MySpace.com, the fast-growing community website hugely popular with American teens, has removed 200,000 “objectionable” profiles from its site as it steps up efforts to calm fears about the safety of the network for young users.
Ross Levinsohn, head of News Corp’s internet division, said some of the material taken down contained “hate speech”. Some of it, he said, was “too risqué”.
Peter Chernin, president and chief operating officer of News Corp, told the Financial Times that, although he and Mr Murdoch were very optimistic about its prospects when they acquired it last year, MySpace had exceeded their expectations.
Spy program snoops on cell phones
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6055760.html
New software that hides on cell phones and captures call logs and text messages is being sold as a way to monitor kids and spouses. But one security company calls it a Trojan horse.
The FlexiSpy application captures call logs, text messages and mobile Internet activity, among other things. The software, released at the beginning of March, sells for $49.95 and is advertised by Bangkok, Thailand-based Vervata as a tool to monitor kids and unfaithful spouses. The data captured is sent to Vervata's servers and is accessible to customers via a special Web site.
Similar surveillance software for PCs already exists and has raised the ire of groups fighting domestic violence, who fear it may be used by abusive spouses.
FlexiSpy has attracted a different kind of criticism from security company F-Secure, which has labeled the software a Trojan, or a malicious program that disguises itself as something innocuous.
Unlikely bedfellows block internet porn
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&ObjectID=10375301
A bid to create a virtual red light district on the internet has been blocked by a "coalition of the unwilling" consisting of unlikely bedfellows the United States, Australia and Iran.
The internet's governing authority, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann), was to have held a final vote on creating a .xxx top level domain for adult content online at its conference this week in Wellington.
However, Icann's government advisory committee (GAC), Government representatives who report and advise Icann on public-policy issues, has forced the issue off the agenda by insisting the proposal needs more work to protect the public interest.
The GAC argued that a range of restrictions and protections against illegal and offensive material made in initial undertakings by .xxx's backer, ICM Registry, were absent from the contract Icann's board were proposing to ratify.
Yahoo co-founder defends support for 'Great Firewall of China'
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060328/tc_afp/japanchinausmediainternetcompanyyahoo
Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang defended the Internet search engine's cooperation with Chinese censorship of the Web, saying it was necessary to reach out to new users.
US lawmakers have accused tech giants Yahoo, Google and Microsoft of helping sustain the so-called Great Firewall of China, which blocks searches of terms considered to be sensitive, such as "free speech" and "human rights."
But Yang said it was better to be in China than out.
"We have to think of a way in which the Internet phenomenon can continue to grow and reach more users and at the same time comply with local laws.
"In places like China and other places that have different political regimes I think you'll see them trying to react and potentially regulate these kinds of activities.
"But our observation is that it is inevitable that things will become more open and free flowing," Yang told reporters here ahead of the 10th anniversary of the search engine's Japanese site on April 1.
Zero Days Open Doors for Security Firms
http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=E23CEBF7-134A-460B-ACAD-050BBF8C632A
http://www.determina.com/security_center/security_advisories/securityadvisory_march272006_1.asp
Two security vendors have released unofficial fixes for the latest critical Windows vulnerability, adding an interesting new branch to the patching ecosystem.
Determina Inc and eEye Digital Security Inc both earlier this week released small, free, downloadable programs that they said will prevent the latest hole, known as the CreateTextRange vulnerability, from being exploited.
It's the second time recently that researchers unaffiliated with Microsoft have offered fixes for zero-day vulnerabilities -- those software holes for which no official patch yet exists -- and it looks like it could become a regular thing.