Happy Birthday, Ray Bradbury!

The Martian Chronicaler turns 88 today.

http://blog.wired.com/geekdad/2008/08/happy-birthda-2.html

The UK gov't lost data on 4,000,000 people last year

Which is good, because in about 15 years, it will have lost the data on everyone in England! No more data hoard!


Oh, maybe I read that wrong.

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/22/0343217

China's largest ISP gets hit with a DNS cache poisoning attack

This is an attack that the common user of the internet, i.e. you and me, are powerless to do anything about. The DNS system is what allows you to enter www.livejournal.com and have your page requests go to the IP address 204.9.177.18. If I can compromise the DNS system of your ISP, such as is happening in China right now, I control where www.livejournal.com resolves to, and I can send your browser to www.reallyhorriblemalware.com and I'd have a good chance of compromising your computer.

Fun times for running bot farms!

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/21/2343250