The Internet Archive discovers and captures web pages through many different web crawls.
At any given time several distinct crawls are running, some for months, and some every day or longer.
View the web archive through the Wayback Machine.
Earlier this week, Mark Burnett released a collection of 10 million usernames and passwords.
These passwords were already compromised and, with a little digging, findable on the public internet. Mark isn’t doing a hackers a favor in ‘publicizing’ this ‘private’ data, he is doing everyone a favor in saying these accounts have been compromised and their associated passwords are not secure.
If you would like to check to see if you’re accounts are among those compramized, check out this searchable database.
As iPhones become smaller and smaller, we will eventually loose the auxiliary port to the Lightning and MFi standard. This change will enable Apple to require headphone vendors to comply to their MFi standard and pay licensing fees on the lightning adapters.
Hopefully, Apple will also produce lightning to 3.5 mm headphone converters to allow people to use their old headphones. In the worst case, people can use bluetooth to aux converters to avoid being bound to apple licensed products.
Clearing Cookies in Firefox and Opera is not completely effective. Users can be tracked when webmasters store cookie data in a 301 redirect. For Firefox and Opera, 301 redirects are not cleared as part of cookies, but instead part of the cache.
Full writeup & demo here.
In light of recent events, such as the Kramer et al study, Facebook is rolling out “Privacy Basics”. These are going to be the TL;DR of the ToS and Privacy Policy of facebook, putting in layman’s terms what facebook really intends to do with your information. As facebook states, these policies will “Help you understand how Facebook Works and How to Control Your Information”. It is not yet known if Facebook will allow users to enhance their privacy or decrease Facebook’s own data access with these new policies, but it is certainly a step in the right direction.
The Amazon Echo model number SK705DI is manufactured by IGLUU LLC. The echo is amazon’s smart home device similar to Apple’s Siri and Microsoft’s Cortana.
Facebook recently added “feeling shqiptar” [Shqip(ë)tar (plural: Shqip(ë)tarët, feminine: Shqip(ë)tare)] to the list of how you might be feeling while updating your facebook status.
This is an interesting addition as it means to be feeling Albanian (from the South-Central European country of Albania, bordering Greece).
Facebook seems to feel like feeling albenian is a good thing, as the icon is a smiling face
Apple has recently filed for certification with the IECEE for a new device called “Apple iPower”
From the certification request, it appears the device has an input of 20 volts (the equivalent of Mac Laptop charger output), and an output of 5 and 12 volts.
5 Volts is USB standard voltage, but it isn’t yet known as to what the 12 volts 2 amps could be used for.
According to recent documents filed with the IECEE, the apple watch’s heartbeat measuring technology is going to be based off of the Pulse Oximeter technology commonly used in medical equipment. It also appears from this filing that the watch may be compatible with android devices, however the wording is quite ambiguous.
Apple and Beats have just released their new Solo 2 Wireless headphones with the model number B0534.
These new headphones use the bluetooth frequency to transmit and receive, wirelessly connecting with your bluetooth enabled android, iphone, apple laptop, or windows computer.
The new wireless beats have been registered with Industry Canada and the FCC under the following codes: FCC ID: BCG-B0534 IC: 579C-B0534
With the recent arrest of the San Francisco man behind Silk Road 2.0, we can expect the dark webs to be working on a Silk Road 3.0.
The creators of Silkroad 2.0 built certain safeguards to help re-deploy the source code of the silkroad 2.0 site so that in the case of a law enforcement takedown, a silkroad 3.0 would be able to rise from the ashes.
The battle between law enforcement and the dark-web continues!
