A whole new level of reporting can be done with a little help from the parties concerned. After it would seem Chris Benoit’s wife’s death was posted before authorities knew of it, the question of “who did it?” is in a lot of people’s minds.

What if Benoit himself edited the page after doing his wife in? And, even more, what if the Klebold/Harris’ of the world start posting these things on Wikipedia as¹ they happen? That would put real-time news into a whole new perspective. It would also bring about some really nasty demands of WikiMedia, especially surrounding their anonymous editing policy and whatnot.

1. This is the age of mobile everything - but let’s say before, if you want [↩]

Spammers, phishers, DoS-ers… the dudes and dudettes that give spice to our online existence and always keep us on our toes. Every medium with its problems, naturally, and while completely removing one threat is unfeasible¹, minimizing its impact is attainable.

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1. It is either impossible or simply a stage before a greater threat emerges [↩]

73%How Addicted to Blogging Are You?

Well that’s not what I expected. Certainly more to do with how much I read as opposed to how much I write. I wouldn’t consider myself a blog-critic just yet, though.

Something that I didn’t know - but testing over coffee with buddies does wonders - is that iChat AV will do video over Jabber to another iChat client. So while Google doesn’t officially support video over their Jabber implementation, two clients both on iChat can do it. Or more than two - though we couldn’t test that out. My best bet is that we’re dealing with a direct connection - but who cares? Video goodness without the need for AIM or .Mac =)

… and a lot of people will be suddenly unavailable for chatting

Status: On the iPhone

I’ve met a real security researcher once. He writes academic papers, works for one of the big virtualisation companies and, I think, even teaches a course or two. He told me there is a clear distinction between the style in which academic papers are written - the ones by PhDs, at least - and how blackhat docs come about.

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This is not about intellectual property, copyright or electronic markets. This is about malware infections. I know, how weird of me.

I overheard someone speaking recently about the threat of viruses and other nasty malware coming from P2P networks. How it must be obvious that pirates have ulterior motives for distributing software applications free of charge - nobody in their right mind would do that unless there was something to gain. In this person’s view, all software originating from P2P networks [all commercial software] is somehow infected with some form of malware or another.

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With a few less security exploits and usability bugs, the Safari got a bit tamer. Not bulletproof, I’m sure, but it’s impressive - 3 days after the original release and the justified shit-storm that followed, 3.0.1 got out. Thor Larholm mentions his finding is no longer exploitable on this version [but still very much so on the latest stable Mac OS X incarnation of Safari¹]. No word from David Maynor yet, I’m curious what the status is with his set of findings.

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1. Safari 2 received no updates in the last 24 hours [↩]

One million bots isn’t that much. Think that some companies have thousands of computers living with near-identical settings - one gets wanked, so do the others. Most residences now have multiple machines, too, in a similar situation. Granted, a lot of these cases mean a limited number of IP addresses are available to the bot-herder - but it’s a failover scenario, one host goes down, the next one can do the herder’s bidding.

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Some of you might have already seen this: when a YouTube clip is done, the “Related” videos are now shown in a fashion identical to that of the Apple dock.

Guess Eric Schmidt on the Board of Apple really does mean more things will be happening between the two companies. Which is a good thing in my books. YouTube is also transcoding all of its videos to h.264 and will begin streaming them to AppleTV. Quid pro quo.

UPDATE: At this point I’ve only been able to see some embedded clips use this feature, however I’m sure it is only a matter of time; on YouTube there is a message advising that “We are currently performing site maintenance so a few features aren’t available. We’ll be back in a bit.”

UPDATE: Added a screenshot in case you didn’t come across this yet.