Does motivation matter? Open source contributors are increasingly people who are paid to work on open source. GNOME contributor Lucas Rocha asks how this impacts communities over the long term. This is not a new question by any stretch. People worried about the influence of commercial interests in open source in the early days before Red Hat was a public company and when Slackware was still considered a major Linux distribution. I suspect people will still be asking this question for years to come.
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Archive for March, 2010
Home fabricated boards in any color
Posted in March 31st, 2010
Tired of every printed circuit board you etch coming out brown? Take a page out of [Dane's] book and dye your PCB to just about any color you want. One hour submerged in a 200 degree bath of Rit dye turned his brown FR4 substrate to the desired dark green. We give him points for [...]
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Update: 50MHz to 100Mhz scope conversion
Posted in March 31st, 2010
Changing this 50MHz Rigol oscilloscope into its larger, more expensive brother just became quite a bit easier. When we originally looked at this hack it required pulling some capacitors off of the board. Now all it takes is three commands over a serial terminal connection.
Take a look at the walk through video after the break. [...]
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Linux, Where Crapware Goes to Die
Posted in March 31st, 2010
Remember this cute little purple ape? If you’re a Linux user, you might not, so let me enlighten you a bit. This little guy is the “Bonzi Buddy” ape. He was one of the earliest malware/spyware/crapware programs for the Microsoft Windows platform. Arguably the cutest of his breed, BonziBuddy became a widespread problem for Windows users for years. more>>
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Facebook AV
Posted in March 31st, 2010
Does a Facebook-specific antivirus application sound like a good idea? Maybe not. One of our analysts saw this particular application claiming to be an antivirus wreak havoc on his Friends list. Of course, there is no such thing.
Once installed on one Friend’s account, this application tags 20 Friend into a picture such as the one below:
If a Friend looking through the photos then clicks on the app’s (apparently randomly generated) link, they’ll see this:
If you have a lot of friends, you might end up with a series of albums like this:
You can find more information about this, including instructions on how to remove the tags on the photos, at FacebookInsider.
Updated to add: Examples include Antivirus in Focebook and F’acebook antivirus.
Notice the misspelling of Facebook in both names. Facebook is already in the process removing and preventing such rogue apps.
On 29/03/10 At 09:14 AM
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What input device? Just use your arm
Posted in March 31st, 2010
This one could be a game changer. [Chris Harrison] and a team of researchers are showing off a method of using your arm as an input device. An arm band worn by the user picks up acoustic signatures created by tapping on your arm with the other hand, or taping your fingers and thumb together [...]
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China cyber attack targets journalists
Posted in March 31st, 2010
David Neal, V3.co.uk, Wednesday 31 March 2010 at 12:49:00
Beijing-based press agency says eight journalists’ email accounts have been
hacked
The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China (FCCC) today claimed that a number
of its members have had their Yahoo email accounts hacked and tampered with.
The Beijing-based press association said eight journalists have had their
email accounts hacked, including one that had a forwarding address added to his
account settings.
We approached Yahoo in the UK for a comment, but so far it has not responded.
Nor, it appears, has it responded to calls from the FCCC for clarification.
“Yahoo has not answered the FCCC’s questions about the attacks, nor has it
told individual email users how the accounts were accessed. Password security
and malware are ongoing concerns, but it’s unclear whether they are related to
this case,” the FCCC said in a statement on its web site.
Until more clarification is provided, the FCCC is recommending that its users
take care whenever they use email, particularly if the content is sensitive, and
particularly if they use Yahoo Mail.
It said users should check their account settings to make sure that no
forwarding addresses have been added, and change their passwords frequently.
The agency’s warning ends by reminding users that email “does not appear to
be secure in China, and that alternate means of arranging interviews and
conducting other sensitive business are often preferable”.
This is not the first time that email has been tampered with in China. Google
issued a similar warning to users after some of its mail accounts were hacked in
January.
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Google blames China for search block
Posted in March 31st, 2010
Spencer Dalziel, V3.co.uk, Wednesday 31 March 2010 at 12:44:00
Relations deteriorate as Google identifies ‘change in the great firewall’
Google has backtracked on an initial statement that the blocking of some of
its services in China had been the result of its own technical error, leading to
renewed speculation that the Chinese authorities are interfering with its web
traffic.
It was originally claimed that Google’s search services were being
deliberately blocked after the firm moved its operation to Hong Kong to avoid
censorship in mainland China.
Reports first surfaced this week that China might be attempting to
cripple
Google’s Hong Kong service, but Google then responded by saying the problem
was likely to be a technical error.
“The ‘gs_rfai’ started appearing in the URLs of Google searches globally as
part of a search parameter, a string of characters that sends information about
the query to Google so we can return the best result,” said the firm at the
time.
“Because this parameter contained the letters ‘rfa’ the Great Firewall was
associating these searches with Radio Free Asia, a service that has been
inaccessible in China for a long time – hence the blockage. We are currently
looking at how to resolve this issue.”
However, in a new statement, Google said it is now holding China’s firewall
responsible for the block.
“Having looked into this issue in more detail, it’s clear we actually added
this parameter a week ago. So whatever happened to block google.com.hk must have
been as a result of a change in the great firewall,” Google said.
In a further twist, the web giant admitted that its Chinese search traffic
has now returned to normal “even though we have not made any changes at our end
“.
Google’s mobile services in China have been
partially
blocked for several days, according to the company’s
service
accessibility report.
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