Recent Comments:
FAA warns of Boeing 787 hacker vulnerability {Engadget}
Jan 6th 2008 2:33AM John B, in the IT world the presence of a firewall is not in the least bit synonymous with hack-proof. If there is no need at all for the customer network to communication with the plane's operations network, why in the world would anyone want to trust an application (firewall) sitting on an operating system, sitting on some piece of hardware to protect one network from another when packets have a phenominally hard time aerisolizing and jumping from one network to another? TRUE AIR GAP!
Reminder: Win a $5K gaming PC from Falcon Northwest {Joystiq}
Nov 25th 2007 2:49AM A Cisco 2501 router
Panasonic develops walkthrough iris scanner to hasten ID checks {Engadget}
Aug 13th 2007 11:35PM this is fundamentally wrong. Biometrics should be used to verify identity, not establish it in the absence of other controls. If it is based on an imaging system it can be bypassed and unless this follows the mantra of all other "high tech" security controls, future revisions of it will be backwards compatible and will unavoidably inherit the flaws of their predecessors.
Anyone see the Xbox 360 robot in Transformers? {Engadget}
Jul 7th 2007 4:30AM I saw it this afternoon. The xbox360 got a jolt from the all-spark and came out of the box and attacked the owner who had just purchased it. It was hillarious.
Giveaway: have an iPhone on us! {Engadget}
Jul 2nd 2007 12:34AM Etch-A-Sketch FTW!
Congress looking to make Caller ID spoofing illegal {Engadget}
Jun 29th 2007 7:50PM This is crappy nonsense. I do not need the government to protect me from configuration changes to displayed information. Isn't the purpose of government to provide the services, we as individuals are incapable of providing for ourselves? national defense, incoming asteroids, spam, caller id spoofing. I rather they protect me from documentary spoofing. If Michael Moore can take quotes out of context under the guise of free speech, I should be able to rearrange letters on caller id in the same spirit.
Hitachi and Oracle introduce anti-piracy tags in China {Engadget}
Jun 5th 2007 9:40AM If man can make it, man can fake it. The more complicated the lock, the easier to break it, as it will inheritently be dependent on some small simple process. What a waste of time and money.
Win yourself some Shure headphones! {Engadget}
May 25th 2007 2:34AM Hey Jupiter, over and over and over again.
It's our 2nd birthday and we're giving you the presents! {Engadget}
Mar 3rd 2006 6:15PM My personal favorite was Movie Gadget Friday: Death Star I from Star Wars. I never really thought of this beautiful construct as a gadget but it obviously is.
