29th August 2009 Archive
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Snow Leopard security - The good, the bad and the missing
Vista lessons not learned
Apple Engineers missed a key opportunity to implement an industry-standard technology in their latest operating system that would have made it more resistant to hacking attacks, three researchers have said. Known as ASLR, or address space layout randomization, the measure picks a different memory location to load system …
Security 29 Aug 00:09
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Google Book Search - Is it The Last Library?
Google Books Settlement Con Uh, yes
Is Google Book Search the last library? Geoff Nunberg, one of America's leading linguistics researchers, laid this rather ominous tag on Google's controversial book-scanning project amidst an amusingly-heated debate this afternoon on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley. "This is likely to be The Last Library …
Music and Media 29 Aug 00:11
