Security, privacy, fatuity, and parody

Amanda Palmer meets Feist.

Man. I wish we had known about this option eight years ago in our first floor apartment at Worthington Place. Those privacy screens we ended up using were dangerous.

Ironic, isn’t it, that it’s the middle class self made man being painted as elitist by the wealthy man from a wealthy family who owns his own private jet and owns six houses.

Oh for God’s sake (redux).

Krugman’s take on the Republican strategy for the election: simple answers for complex problems, and to hell with the facts.

Getting around memory protection safeguards in Vista and Windows Server 2008 undoes a lot of the work that Microsoft did to guard against exploitable buffer overflows. This is A Big Deal, particularly if it’s as reusable as Dino Dai Zovi claims.

Followup to yesterday’s “killswitch” file. This is a list of applications that are forbidden to use Core Location, not a full-on killswitch. Still an interesting design decision, and one I wouldn’t want to explain to developers.

Here’s the list of 2.6.1 bugfixes. I don’t see anything about the nasty admin login cookie issues that bit all those of us who upgraded to 2.6.