Posts by T0ny

Fanbois froth as Apple claims 'iPhone5.com' rights

iphone4

According to sitedossier, iphone4.com used to be on the same DNS servers as iphone5.com (until apple took it away)

http://www.sitedossier.com/nameserver/ns1.smonty.net

'Being cyber-stalked is as bad as being raped, or in a war'

un(untitled)

"many victims of online or other electronic harassment suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder"

In the same way that many victims of minor car accidents suffer whiplash injuries.

That's what you get for conducting your research in the queue outside claims direct.

Who's nicked Vaz's fondleslab?

Insurance

"nicked an iPad ..."

Which will no doubt become 6 iPads by the time he has finished filling out his insurance claim form.

YouGov's voluntary stalkware unpicked

domain registrations

surfboardhi.com is registered to "Harris Interactive" (harrisinteractive.com) another seemingly legit survey company.

rankey.com appears to be South Korean (Mediachannel Inc, Soekyo-Dong, Mapo-Ku)

Animated CAPTCHA tech aims to fox spambots

Marketing Ploy?

Call me cynical, but the fact that nucaptcha was created by an organization called "Leap Marketing" makes me think that, once they have a large enough user base, advertising will magically find it's way into the background of the MP4 video files the system uses.

The Loch Ness Stig gets pixellated

EH?

"Where's your evidence for that."

On google street view perhaps?

Top Gear's Stig prowls Loch Ness

Some say...

... he has the ability to get google to replace an entire section of the A82 on street view

Links are from the ends of the original images facing in towards the stig's location.

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?layer=c&cbll=57.231724,-4.563896&cbp=12,208.64,,0,14.8

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?layer=c&cbll=57.222845,-4.576671&cbp=12,41.11,,0,10.99

Office 2010 to come loaded with WGA's bastard child

viruses and malfunctioning code

"viruses and malfunctioning code - both of which it claimed dog dodgy copies of its Office suite"

Whereas legitimate versions come without the viruses.

Mozilla to breed prepubescent add-on developers

eighth graders

"What if any eighth grader with a little skill could change the browser? What would that mean for the web?"

An add-on that automatically underlines all the rude words in wikipedia?

MP3sparks.com downed by links to Russian cybercrime gang

re: Who gave anyone...

"Who gave anyone but my elected government the right to decide which site I may or may not see."

Imagine that your friend has had their phone disconnected for making nuisance calls.

Now imagine yourself saying "Who gave anyone but my elected government the right to decide who I may or may not call."