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Latest blog posts from buzzworthy

Another key Internet weakness
Wired.com Threat Level has a detailed report on a fundamental weakness in the Border Gateway Protocol, which it dubs "the Internet's biggest security hole." It's what allows IP hijacking, where attackers redirect traffic elsewhere so they can surreptitously monitor or manipulate it. The basic... Read more...
Published 2 days ago

Google Suggest leaves the lab -- finally
Google Suggest, which shows a drop-down menu of suggested queries as you start typing in the search box, is finally moving out of beta to become part of Google's home page. Read more...
Published 3 days ago

Perspectives: A new approach to security
Perspectives is a Firefox extension developed by Carnegie Mellon to foil "man-in-the-middle" attacks by verifying that the secure server you're browsing really is the one you're trying to reach. Read more...
Published 3 days ago

30 years of Lego minifigures
The Lego minifigure is 30 years old. Read more...
Published 3 days ago

Last days for Tris
I love Noah Witherspoon's Tris, a free Tetris clone for the iPhone and iPod touch. The Tetris Co., however, is rather less than enamored of Tris. And, as Witherspoon explains on his blog, that means "game over" for his little effort. Read more...
Published 3 days ago

Twitter etiquette
In the right (or wrong) hands, the 140 characters that Twitter limit you to for a single message are more than enough to commit a social-networking faux pas. Check out Margaret Mason's list of 14 ways to use Twitter politely at The Morning News for some common-sense preventative measures. Read more...
Published 3 days ago

SciAm's sweeping series on privacy issues
Scientific American has a great package of stories this month on "The Future of Privacy." It's a sweeping topic but SciAm tries to cover the whole range, from biometrics to biology. Read more...
Published 4 days ago

Why 8/8/08?
Much ado has been made about how the just-concluded Beijing Summer Olympics started on 8/8/08 because the numerologically minded Chinese hosts thought the string of eights made it a very auspicious date. Read more...
Published 4 days ago

How long should old news stories stay online?
A former Seattle Pacific University student's legal battle to get the student paper to delete a 10-year-old story from its online archives spotlights an issue that the P-I -- and, I suspect, many other professional news organizations -- are wrestling with. Read more...
Published a week ago

If you can't beat 'em, monetize 'em
The New York Times reports that some media companies -- including CBS, Universal Music, Lionsgate and Electronic Arts -- are now putting advertising on pirated clips of their content posted to YouTube. Think of it as an ingenious application of crowdsourcing. Read more...
Published a week ago

Touching the cloud
I love this line in Andrea James' story looking at the rising importance of cloud computing: "If you use Google's Gmail service for e-mail, you've touched the cloud." Read more...
Published a week ago

Why the Olympics didn't kill the Internet
We've been reading for years how the exploding demand for streaming video will ultimately, in the not-too-distant future, bring the Internet crashing down in flames. Read more...
Published a week ago