Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Melina Velba Gallerry

Firesheep: how (to do) bite of the personal data on Facebook

Eric Buttler just released a Firefox extension called that supports Firesheep where it hurts for some sites concerned with security of personal data of their users. To feel good, most of its major sites encrypts data when the user authentication password in the clear but then for further exchanges. Then it's "all in the clear" or almost !....

In particular, it requires clear communications when machines online service returns HTTP cookies used to identify the user when he returns to the site and thus avoid entering user / password reconnection. These cookies serve to clear up the mechanisms of buttons such as "Love" from Facebook Users with a clearly identified to ensure effective viral spread to his friends: I had made the explicit demonstration point by point in this post.


partculièrement The case is tragic for Facebook (although Firesheep also works for Twitter, Flickr, Google, etc..) Whose success is huge buttons Like:
These two are combined in large numbers by rotating the extension Firesheep (which uses Winpcap to capture packets on the wireless network) in a public place (coffee trendy hall station, etc. .) with an unencrypted public wifi, it makes "miracles": this extension quickly reveals the names / user pictures she captured the cookies that are passed over the wireless network because their owner is now "work" on the same wireless network ..

Indeed, almost everyone is on Facebook, it appears several times a day trip or on a site Like-enabled " especially when he has 5 minutes to spare with his iPhone while waiting for his train ....

Just then click on the names of users to instantly connect to regain their place on their account!

Oooooouch a nasty blow in the groin!

I think we are on the warpath in Facebook to set up the cons-related response: there were already too many blunders (even if necessary ?...) home in the field of privacy!.

There will in my opinion not many other possible responses as established by Google Gmail in January this years: activate end to end encryption via SSL for dealing with the negligence of the other links in the chain of transmission .... The objective

Eric Butler (as my ticket for that matter) is not a solicitation to piracy of personal data but rather to show users the dangers of complacency in terms of protection of privacy so that they are back to "pull the ears" of publishers of online services to force them to correct their weaknesses as their operation is within reach of everyone!

In Facebook's case, it should cost a few thousand additional servers (added a park already expanded ...) because the SSL compression is particularly intensive computing power - if of course it's the solution ....

Source: Media and Tech Blog (by Didier Durand)

Sunday, October 24, 2010

Best Rock Love Song 80s

After 220 million units sold, Sony walkman stops. Sniff ...

After 30 years of loyal service, Sony halts production of the Walkman, the famous player personnel Tapes audio.

A little nostalgia for the forty-somethings and over which I belong, the Walkman was the first personal equipment for a walk with his music (sometimes with pockets full of tapes to transport a piece of his music library) and also ... to show that we wanted to isolate themselves even in the presence of others.

With the demise of the Walkman is a page of life turns. Sniff! ...

course, is the iPod (followed by the iPhone), icon canon digital players, which brought the final blow to the Walkman. But with 220 million units produced, it remains a beautiful commercial success worldwide: Apple that activates daily 230,000 + products based on its iOS (iPhone, iPods) has sold "only" 125 million of these gadgets. Although

Naturally, this figure was reached much faster than Apple by Sony. But the question is now open: Apple may he also reach the milestone of 220 million units?

Certainly the market is now much broader (5 + billion in late 2010 prospective customers!), So the potential is enormous, but competition with devices based on Android as a platform strategic technology platform is fierce fueled by wise "all against one" orchestrated by Google . All these devices are functional and less expensive than Apple will they not prevent achieving this historic milestone in the Cupertino?

Source: Media and Tech Blog (by Didier Durand)

Thursday, October 21, 2010

Triple Beam Balanceworksheet

360 ° Interactive Video: the first I see! ...

The first I see of this kind: an interactive video to 360 °!

What I mean by this: by clicking on a pixel of this video and then without releasing the mouse, you can turn it to your liking (hence interactivity) around this point in all directions (d where the 360 °)

The same idea that Google Street View but in this case, we pass the static picture motion video. As to

advertising purposes, it is well protected, you can not show it on this blog, you need a direct visit to http://www.youtube.com/doritosuk

You know others of the same accabit? Thank you to let us know by comment

The technology is still very specific to its democratization when filming the family meals in the same way ....

Source: Media and Tech Blog (by Didier Durand)

Sunday, October 3, 2010

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Google, Apple, Microsoft: the battle over issues of smartphones!

Microsoft has just sue Motorola , major user of Android, after signing an agreement of around license patents with HTC mobile , also a fan of Google's system in its phones. Why?

intelligence compared current smartphones is ephemeral: act calmly leaving Moore's Law as it continues to do on other areas of the Internet , it is this plane side "smart" phone on the current iPhone or type Nexus One to these distinctive features of their current high-end (high-resolution color screen, permanent internet connection, GPS chip, etc..) become absolutely standard. This rise in

range of the entire world fleet is a huge challenge: it relates to term the 5 billion people connected by mobile on this planet!

The functional quantum leap made by these new phones stimulates the entry of new players like Google that these five billion handsets in use are not at stake in the battle. It is the massive use of Internet and mobile advertising revenues that will ensue is interested.

That's why he gives generously to all its Android handsets manufacturers: to enable them to innovate more quickly in the combined effect of increasingly functionally rich.

Android has become the workhorse of the new mobile manufacturers who have no previous assets to protect. It is against the nightmare of Nokia the Finnish company done everything it can to scuttle Android to benefit from its Symbian and course officially refuses to use it directly itself. But in doing so, it isolates itself: it has lost 2 renowned partners: Sony Ericsson and Samsung that drop Symbian for Android.

impacts of Android are also so strong (customer relationship, financial flows, etc..) that mobile operators as Orange, Vodafone come to imagine their own alternative given the current failures of past and current leader Nokia full turbulence.

Microsoft's response is logical: the Redmond company will sue successively to all handset manufacturers because it lives Android software licenses if it produces or royalties from its extensive patent portfolio. On the eve of the launch of Windows 7 Mobile she must do everything in its power by nullifying the efforts of the competition.

Even if Google tries to cut off his wings directly , teams must attack them Ballmer producers combined to be cases much more tangible and therefore legal results faster and sliced! He must either stop the spread of combined competitors either extort maximum royalties from its patent portfolio. This is good legal tactic, simple and effiace! It

Oracle has so far contested legally the "strategic problem" in terms of the dominance of Google in the market for electronic gadgets (it is already present in four main tools of our lives daily ...) To try to saw Android based Dalvik by demonstrating that, although totally rewritten from scratch by Google violates basic patents of Java technology. Only Oracle can launch such an attack: it holds patents complained since its acquisition of Sun and has deep enough pockets to pay for the battalions of lawyers required for a trial as seminal!

James Gossling, father of Java, casts doubt on the viability of this trial on the sole basis of patent infringement : This position is valid, therefore the attack tactics against Microsoft and Motorola that of Apple HTC some time ago.

All these trials in all directions in any case validate the comments of E. Schmidt: the new wave of technology (and therefore speculative-financiero ...) is in the mobile Internet .

As for all those trials on the merits, we will have time to dissect in the coming months: they will last for years! Google can only help - in the back room - Apple and Motorola HTC cons cons Microsoft Besides dealing with Oracle's own business.

can be sure that the procedures will be conducted in the state of the art and thus last for many years .....


Source: Media and Tech Blog (by Didier Durand)