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  Nightline Takes "A Trip to The iFactory"

  Tuesday, February 21, 2012
  by Sean

  Nightline, a U.S. news program, will air what's being billed as a special episode this evening on the ABC network. In it, Nightline Co-Anchor Bill Weir will tour Foxconn's factory floor. If you haven't heard of Foxconn, they're the company that manufactures devices such as iPad, iPhone, Kindle, PlayStation 3, Wii, and the Xbox 360.

  Weir's invitation to visit "Apple's factory" in China is in part due to growing consumer pressure. Several weeks ago, This American Life, a production of Public Radio International, aired a segment of The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs by monologist Mike Daisey. In the story, Daisey, a self-described super fan of Apple, traveled to China to see where his iPhone was made.

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  Network Security, Circa 1990

  Tuesday, February 21, 2012
  by Sean

  AT&T recently released a film from its archive called "Computer Security: You Make The Difference".

  While you might chuckle at the 1990's music and production values – the truth is this – many of basic issues that the video (which is a series of films stitched together) attempts to illustrate are still with us today, 22 years later.

  And that's not much to chuckle about…

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  Mountain Lion's Gatekeeper: More Control For "You"

  Friday, February 17, 2012
  by Sean

  Yesterday, Apple released Mac OS X Mountain Lion Developer Preview. From a security perspective, its most interesting new feature is Gatekeeper, which restricts installation of downloaded applications based on their source.
  
  "Allow applications downloaded from: Mac App Store; Mac App Store and identified developers; Anywhere"

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  Taking Poika Out on the Town Again

  
  by Thursday, February 16, 2012

  A year ago, we won theAV-Comparatives Product of the Year award. As a result, we blogged about "Taking Poika Out on the Town" where the award found itself in various places around Helsinki.
  
  Well, today we received our trophy for AV-Test Best Protection Award.
  
  And it's time to go out on the city again.

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  Avi Rubin: All Your Devices Can Be Hacked

  Wednesday, February 15, 2012
  by Sean

  Avi Rubin, a Computer Science professor at Johns Hopkins University, recently gave an informative (and quite fun) presentation at TEDxMidAtlantic. Rubin's talk summarized the results of efforts to hack various devices.
  
  Have you every wondered if you could wirelessly brake a car?

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