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Thu 9 Dec 2010 4 notes | Posted by rocketpilot

Google Zeitgeist Shows We’re As Clueless As Ever

I suspect that Googling a website rather than just typing in the address bar turns out to be a highly rational habit. Given the phishing and other unsavoury sites out there, a simple typo in a URL can be a pretty dangerous mistake.

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Wed 6 Oct 2010 5 notes | Posted by rocketpilot

Funny story: At a conference in Australia last year, IBM handed out thumb drives that turned out to be infected by malware. It was a computer-security conference.
The dangers of USB drives. - By Farhad Manjoo - Slate Magazine OMG. I was expecting over-the-top alarmism. But this report is straight-out alarming.