Tag: DiHydrogen Monoxide
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Facebook, Ads and Ignorance
It seems that quite a few people (myself included) have gotten caught up in the “Facebook Ad Myth”, the one that has user pictures being made available for third party use unless users change their privacy settings. If we’ve learned nothing else from Mythbusters, we know that every good myth has some element of truth…
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Conversions
This is something that I thought I would never hear, but I guess it had to happen. In the gym today, I overheard two of the new people a couple of treadmills over comment – Now that the US and Canadian dollar are almost equal, does that mean that miles and kilometers are going to…
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iAdware
The Register is reporting that there is a POC for OSX adware now. F-Secure explains that this exploit make use of a feature (hopefully not an MS Office style feature) that allows applications to installed into the system library and then executed ever time you open another application. I’ve lumped this under DH2O because as…
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Another Mac POC “Virus”
Well it seems that it’s been a really slow day out there and someone has dug out another proof of concept “virus” for the OSX. C|Net posted about it, but you can go to the source (geek) to get all the details. Basically if you have a bad disk image, then it’s possible for something…
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More on the Macarena
It looks like the anti-virus folks are starting to come clean a bit with the new virus. According to a report from Macfixit, Intego says: The virus can only infect Intel-based OS X computers. It consists of a C source file, an Assembler ‘dropper’ file, and documentation that explains how to create a virus that…