Social Engineering

This site has quite a few examples of social engineering as well as links to a toolkit that allows you to easily clone sites for use as harvesting mechanisms of information. Prevention of Influence, Deception, Identity Theft and Phishing Through Education.

WikiLeaks founder has his passport confiscated

Showing you how much governments care about free speech, Julian Assange, who moves around every few weeks, has had his passport confiscated for looking worn. They’re not giving him a new one, it seems, which means it’ll be easy to keep close tabs on him. This makes it very difficult for people to give him Read more about WikiLeaks founder has his passport confiscated[…]

NATO’s Strategic Concept: Experts’ Report on the New Strategic Concept Released

It’s a good document, showing that NATO is definitely heading in the right direction. However, you can tell that much of the experts are stuck in the mud a bit and that the US is using this document to flex its muscles in Iran’s direction. NATO needs to form a new and clear strategic vision, Read more about NATO’s Strategic Concept: Experts’ Report on the New Strategic Concept Released[…]

Stand up to child bullying – it’s good for you!

Children who returned hostility with hostility appeared to be the most mature, the researchers found. Boys who stood up to bullies and schoolyard enemies were judged more socially competent by their teachers. Girls who did the same were more popular and more admired by teachers and peers, the researchers found. via Bullying ‘can be good Read more about Stand up to child bullying – it’s good for you![…]

We are GODS! Man made life!

What they did is email genetic code to a machine, which constructed DNA and implanted that in a virus cell, after removing the old DNA. The synthetic DNA then reproduced and it’s reproductions also carried the synthetic DNA. The reproduction is the ‘life’ bit. They’re calling it Cynthia. Scientists Create First Synthetic Cell – WSJ.com.

ConLibs start to bring the UK back to sanity: outlawing fingerprinting of children at schools

It looks like the UK is starting to be saved allreay! The ConLibs are devoted to things such as personaly privacy and are against mammoth centralised databases (such as the National ID fiasco). The government is looking to increase the safety of your data and keep much less of it. Well done, I hope this Read more about ConLibs start to bring the UK back to sanity: outlawing fingerprinting of children at schools[…]

Dupont 50″ printed OLED screen

Dupont has managed to print out a 50″ OLED screen, which tests say should be reliable for around 12 years, in 2 minutes time. This should speed up the production and implementation of OLED, as well as make it quite a bit cheaper. Technology Review: New Inks Could Mean Cheaper OLED Screens.

Compiz Keyboard Shortcuts in Ubuntu 10.04 | Tombuntu

Some of the following keyboard shortcuts will not work at all if Compiz (visual effects) if turned off. Workspaces Ctrl + Alt + Left/Right/Up/Down arrow – move to the workspace in the given direction Ctrl + Alt + Shift + Left/Right arrow – move the current window to the workspace in the given direction Super Read more about Compiz Keyboard Shortcuts in Ubuntu 10.04 | Tombuntu[…]

Kite tidal energy

England, the home of tidal energy generator projects, has a new one: a Swedish startup has models of a turbine attached to a kite wing and rudder tethered to the ocean floor. ‘Underwater kite’ aims to turn energy tide – CNN.com.

Mechwarrior 4 Free Release!

Finally, the long awaited moment has arrived! Studio MekTek, in association with Smith and Tinker, INC., Virtual World Entertainment, LLC, Catalyst Game Labs, and Microsoft Games, is happy to announce the release of Mechwarrior4 Free. Getting started is easy. Just download and install MTX, MekTek’s free content delivery and updating system. Once installed, simply click Read more about Mechwarrior 4 Free Release![…]