Dawn of a new day, This is the RSS Digest for Wednesday, June 10th, 2009:

Ubuntu aims for ten-second boot time with 10.04
Are Registry Cleaners Safe to Use?
2.8 million not ready for DTV transition
Rubinstein named CEO of Palm
Apple finalizes PowerPC divorce with OS upgrade
New Atom N450 CPU due in October
Fast Food Apple Pies and Why Netbooks Suck
Google’s Schmidt: Bing Can’t Buy Search Love With Ads
iPhone 3G S processor specs: 600MHz CPU, 256MB of RAM
Virgin Mobile USA launches prepaid Broadband2Go 3G service
Palm Pixie (Eos) confirmed via webOS ROM leak?
Is the HTC Snap the Ultimate Messenger?
Disposing of your analog TV may be hazardous to everyone’s health
Mozilla opens up Firefox for business customization
Netbook v2.0 to Best Laptops in Portable Computing?
ExpressCard 2.0 Spec Is Out and Promises to Be 10x Faster [Peripherals]
Apple dashes hopes for ZFS support in Snow Leopard
Boot from the SD card slot in new MacBook Pros
UAC in Windows 7 still broken, Microsoft won’t/can’t fix code-injection vulnerability
The “Mighty Dead” mouse
Snow Leopard’s wallpaper looks many times faster than Leopard’s
iPhone 3G S Has a 600 MHz Processor, 256MB of RAM, PowerVR SGX
Reports: DOJ turns up the heat on Google’s book deal
Google unveils plug-in to marry Outlook, Gmail
Windows 7 build 7227 leaks
RIAA is using illegal evidence, says Harvard Law professor
AT&T iPhone upgrading pricing upsets consumers
Google Gives The G1’s Physical Keyboard A Glass Of Ice Water In Hell
News – Asutek Exec: Our Goal Is to Make Better Products Than Apple
News – Bankruptcy Court Sets Hearing Date for Apple, Psystar
TUAW First Look: iPhoto2Twitter
Cardboard gadgets don’t need unwrapping
Top 10 Game Trailers From E3

-Matt A. Tobin of Binary Outcast

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Ever since the whole RFID system was invented one of the target goals was tracking product point to point… It has gone alot farther now days. These rfid tags are on nearly every package you buy now days. Mainly for in store tracking and security… If they didnt disable them so you could go through the security checkpoints its in theroy possible to track a product right to the home with the appropriate antenna/radio system in place ( Just think cell towers ). I pull the tags off of everythign I get and destroy them as a general pratice.

Whats your thoughts on this new high-tech form of product tracking?

Tags: RFID, Security, tags, Tracking

Originally posted at KtecK Blog – Syndicated on October 31, 2005 (My old blog)

Skype running HTTP servers on your computer!The other day, my son made an interesting discovery, while trying to set up a web server on his computer. Apache web server kept giving an error that port 80 was already in use. He was not runing any other server on that port or so he thought. Not seeing any know server application in the process list, he slow shut down programs know not to be a part of windows XP. This is where he discovered that Skype was running a web server on 2 ports, something we definitely did not expect to find.. You can check this on your computer: http://127.0.0.1 and http://127.0.0.1:443 (You will get a blank page in your browser)Skype claims it uses these ports to allow connection through a firewall. It seems a bit strange seeing this as no other other application such as Yahoo, Google etc. require this to function.. Worst of all the two ports used 80 and 443 are among the most common ones searched for by the bad guys.. This lead me to do some further research on the subject.. Some of what I found (see below) I will no longer being using Skype. I’ll leave it up to you to come to your own conclusions on this. For me, I think it is time to move on and give the open standards program Gizmo a try. http://www.gizmoproject.comcall4help.tech (more…)

Tags: Security, Skype

Many new users of the Internet are unaware of the dangers of this modern World Wide Web. Often, they’ll use weak information for password resets, using same password on multiple sites and other non-secure things.

In the wake of nearly losing some accounts due to a password that got in the wild, I have changed my whole view on online security. I fell victim to the weakness of repeating passwords and nearly lost Steam and Gmail — and actually did lose two other accounts. I knew I had to do mass password changing to save from losing more accounts and was in a scramble to find a secure solution. Then I found KeePass (Windows)/KeePassX (Mac OS X/Linux), a secure password management application. I use AES encryption to store the saved information. Its other key feature was an integrated secure password manager.

So I decided to go all random on every site/service online… that’s right! Each site has its own secure password. That way if one site gets compromised they only get the login for that site — not the login for multiple sites. It was a good, long two days of password changing… now that it’s all changed over, it’s not that bad.

As convenient as it is to use the same password on multiple sites, it’s not secure and could lead to easy account theft on multiple sites. KeePass (Windows)/KeePassX (Mac OS X/Linux) has saved me. I hope this can help others. It was HELL… but all is well now (except the loss of two site logins).

Tags: KeePass, Logins, Password, Security, Wild West