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It seems like everyday there is a new extension created for Firefox. Although some of these are quite cool, I try to avoid rushing to install them, as at the end of the day I don’t actually need them.

www.connectedinternet.co.uk/blog/_archives/2006/1/31/1735799.html

Google is preparing its own distribution of Linux for the desktop, in a possible bid to take on Microsoft in its core business - desktop software. A version of the increasingly popular Ubuntu desktop Linux distribution, based on Debian and the Gnome desktop, it is known internally as ‘Goobuntu’.

www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/31/google_goes_desktop_linux/

Learn how WPA2 can help secure your wireless network, providing encryption and access control, and why it’s safer than previous standards.

Story here.

Google Reader is an online feed aggregator with heavy use of JavaScript and pretty quick loading of the latest feed data from around the web. Google’s AJAX front-end styles back-end data published in the Atom syndication format. The data technologies powering Google Reader can easily be used and extended by third-party feed aggregators for use in their own applications. I will walk you through the (previously) undocumented Google Reader API.

www.niallkennedy.com/blog/archives/2005/12/google_reader_a.html

Think the federal government is too intrusive? You ain’t seen nothing yet. An FCC mandate will require that all hardware and software have a wiretap backdoor that allows the government to tap into all your communications.

www.networkingpipeline.com/blog/archives/2006/01/feds_want_a_wir.html

PC users have been urged to scan their computers before 3 February to avoid falling victim to a destructive virus. On that date the Nyxem virus is set to delete Word, Powerpoint, Excel and Acrobat files on infected machines.

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4661582.stm

Microsoft will omit anti-virus protection in Vista, the next version of Windows, which it plans to ship late this year. As with previous versions of Windows dating back to Windows 2000 at least, Redmond is promoting Vista as a landmark improvement in Windows security.

www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/30/vista_security_allchin/

Dr. Hill is one of a growing number of statisticians, accountants and mathematicians who are convinced that an astonishing mathematical theorem known as Benford’s Law is a powerful and relatively simple tool for pointing suspicion at frauds, embezzlers, tax evaders, sloppy accountants and even computer bugs.

www.rexswain.com/benford.html

New proof-of-concept application demonstrates how quickly and easily an insider can utilize USB-enabled devices to steal data

sharp-ideas.net/ideas/?p=16

This is a pretty cool story …
Using a simple police scanner or ham radio, you can listen to a disembodied spacesuit circling Earth.

science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/26jan_suitsat.htm