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Internet & Security

Posted: 8th February 2010 by Gert in Interwebs, Planet, Security

The new technologies bring along a plethora of delightful new options for consumers to sample content. One of those new ways is the music samples some groups put online. A full track or even a full album to build the hype and allow people to sample the tracks and to persuade them to Go out [...]

Funny thing about the SSL hack

Posted: 19th February 2009 by Gert in Planet, Security

is that the hack was tested by acting as a node in the Tor network.. Isnt it ironic?
As an experiment, Marlinspike placed his proxy software on a node in the Tor network and intercepted 200 requests for SSL encrypted pages over 20 hours, including 114 Yahoo! credentials, 50 Gmail credentials and 16 credit-card numbers. None [...]