What's going on? Does North Korea want
to put a backdoor on every Apple device? Yes, they do and so would
every other intelligence service in the world.
Amid
Apple developer site outage, users report unauthorized password
resets
Reports on social-networking and
microblogging sites may signal security trouble for Apple.
Apple's Dev Center, the member's
only area for paid developers, has been down for about two days,
for no given reason. Stating, "we'll be back soon," Apple
said Thursday that the site was "undergoing maintenance for an
extended period."
… Rumblings across social networks
and developer forums point to concern that Apple may have suffered a
security breach, similar to an attack on Dropbox last year, which led
to a spam attack on many of its users. The logic is that any
scheduled maintenance would likely not come at a time during beta
testing.
Emergency maintenance, such as to patch
or fix a security flaw or lapse, could happen at any time and without
warning.
Twitter has also been abuzz with
reports that users have received password reset e-mails, including
some repeated attempts, as reports from Neowin
and Hacker
News noted.
To a politician, parody means “I
hadn't thought of that!”
From a Joe Cadillic parody on
Massachusetts’ Registry of Motor Vehicles Spying Agency (RMVSA)
The RMVSA has a
professionally-trained staff of dedicated public servants who could
care less about your rights. Please remember that since 9/ll we’ve
taken away more of your rights under the Patriot Act and given your
pictures and drivers license information to the DHS, NSA, FBI and
countless private corporations like ELSAG,
MVTRAC, DRN
and Vigilant Soultions.
We’re happy to
announce to MA. resident’s that E-Verify
Biometric ID cards will soon be issued in lieu of state issued
drivers licenses to better spy on citizens. The mandatory E-Verify
system will require Americans to carry a “tamper-proof” social
security card. The Records and
Information from DMVs for E-Verify (RIDE) initiative automates
motor vehicle document verification between Motor Vehicle Agencies
(MVAs) and the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services
(USCIS).
While this may
piss off a few Constitutionalists you needn’t worry, trust us it
will keep you safer.
Read more on MassPrivateI
What does the Comics world know that
the RIAA and MPAA can't figure out?
Digital
comics successful sidekick to print, say publishers
… In a recession-defying feat, the
comics business rebounded from a catastrophic downward sales spiral
when DC Entertainment, the home of Superman, Batman, and Wonder
Woman, rebooted
its superhero universe in 2011. A key component of the reboot
was to begin publishing all its titles "day-and-date"
digitally, meaning that they would be sold online at the same time
and for the same price as they were in retail stores.
Two years on, print comics are
celebrating their best industry-wide sales in a decade, and digital
comics have established themselves as a small but complementary
force.
… Comics sales in print through
June 2013 are up 13
percent over last year at this point, according to one site that
tracks the industry. Digital comics 2012 sales for the North
American market were estimated at around $70 million, nearly triple
the $25 million from the previous year.
Bill Gates reads, do my students? (Not
their textbooks!)
What
Bill Gates is reading this summer
If you’re in the market for a light,
sunshine-friendly novel—something with an up tempo narrative and
relatable characters—then Bill
Gates’s summer reading list is not for you. But if you’re a
non-fiction buff with a wide range of interests, then it might be the
perfect place to look for a new book.
The list, which the Microsoft chairman
posted on his blog Gates
Notes, is his own personal reading agenda for the season—not a
collection of books that he’s already read and feels inspired to
promote (with the exception of one of them). It includes eight
titles in all, and seven are non-fiction.
… On the blog where he posted his
summer reads, Gates also lists a
catalogue of nearly 150 books, each of which contains a link to
either a summary or a review by Gates himself, like the one he wrote
of The World Until Yesterday. He categorizes them into five
separate groups: education, energy, development, health, and
personal.
Something to motivate (I say “kick
start”) my studnets.
If you want to inspire people with
insightful thoughts or words of wisdom or be inspired by others,
there is now a place where you can do just that called Project
Awesome. It is a community of people who define what they want in
life and then share relevant inspirational posts called “visions”
with others on the website. Once you sign up on the website, you can
create and collect your own visions and post them on the website,
comment on visions or repost visions created by others.
[I like this one:
"If you're going to tell people the truth, you'd better make
them laugh...Or they'll kill you." - George Bernard Shaw
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