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I recently did a post, Google’s Obfuscated TCP that’s actual proof that if you don’t do at least a little research when posting on technical subjects, you can end up looking like a techi-toddler-wannabe

People interested in online privacy will be interested to know that there’s a project over on Google Code developing “Obfuscated TCP”.

Catching up on Slashdot again I ran across something that’s a tad bothersome. Seems that Micro$loth is calling IE8’s habit of phoning home ‘Innocuous’.

Word is out on Slashdot that the US Department of Justice has hired Sanford Litvack, formerly of Disney to get out his legal swimwear and get ready for a possible anti-trust suit against Google.

A tech company called Verayo has announced a new flavor of RFID chip, one that they say cannot be cloned. It uses a Challenge / Response technology called “Physical Unclonable Functions (PUF)”.

Concerned about “Identity theft”? Maybe you should be if you’ve got one of those new credit cards that has an RFID chip in it. If so, here’s a video you should watch.

It’s not even Uncle Bubba talking about his new job making tv stands, It’s a telemarketer. Worse than that, it’s a prerecorded message with somebody reading a telemarketing script.

I’ve been catching up on my mail and one list I read [PGP-Basics] has been particularly busy of late. The bulk of this traffic seems to have started in a thread in which somebody wanted to know which PGP version they should use.

Windows Vista has been ‘pwned’ big time. A couple of researchers attacked Vista by using the way that Internet Explorer handles active scripting and .NET objects which results in effectively bypassing the memory protection safeguards in Vista.

I got a comment on my recent post “Is Hushmail Safe?” where someone expressed the idea that a privacy service located in Canada wouldn’t be able to provide you with any real protection because of it’s proximity to the US and MLAT treaties between the two.