Archive for November, 2005

New backdoor exploits Sony’s rootkit!

Thursday, November 10th, 2005

Only a couple of days after the widely commented news of Sony's copy protected DRM-laden music CDs, there is a new backdoor in the wild exploiting it, as described by Kaspersky Lab in their latest alert. So much for the justifications by Sony that their scheme won't really matter. The ...

The Amazon Mechanical Turk that represents a potential revolution

Monday, November 7th, 2005

Amazon has just announced the Amazon Mechanical Turk, which in my opinion will bring great advantages to both the web, and to a lot of people, potentially representing the livelihood of millions soon. The AMT is a web interface linking meatspace with cyberspace at the backend. We are accustomed to ...