Outernet – globally available source of information

Posted on February 9, 2014 by bcat

A Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF) project, Outernet will use a network of small satellites to transmit selected Internet data to any Wi-Fi-enabled device anywhere in the world at no cost.

By leveraging datacasting technology over a low-cost satellite constellation, Outernet is able to bypass censorship, ensure privacy, and offer a universally-accessible information service at no cost to global citizens. It’s the modern version of shortwave radio, or BitTorrent from space.

Sounds like fun, let’s hope it works out.

Internet Explorer 8 – The End Is Near

Posted on September 15, 2012 by bcat

On September 14th Google Apps team announced that Internet Explorer 8 support is officially discontinued. That’s a big step towards the modern web forcing more users to update their obsolete software.

World’s First Internet Explorer 7 Tax

Posted on June 16, 2012 by bcat

IE7 Tax
Australian online retailer Kogan.com has introduced the world’s first “tax” on Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) browser.
The new 6.8% tax comes into effect on 13 Jun 2012 on all products purchased from Kogan.com by anyone still insistent on using the antique browser.
“As Internet citizens, we all have a responsibility to make the Internet a better place. By taking these measures, we are doing our bit.”
Good job – someone has to pay 🙂 Nice way of attracting attention and links as well.

Why would anyone want to hack U.N.? And how did they do it?

Posted on February 14, 2012 by bcat

So why would anyone hack U.N.? There seem to be an answer to the question “how”, as for “why” it’s still pretty unclear (save for some strong language):

# Why did you hack it ? Continue reading →

Anonymous hacking spree

Posted on February 12, 2012 by bcat

Anonymous were busy lately, they cracked CIA website, US Alabama state servers and some Mexican websites. Small review of their recent activity on pcworld.com.

Someone (not Anonymous for a change) has also compromised U.N. server, here’s the bad part:

U.N. was not using basic web security and … a simple SQL injection attack (SQLIA) was what enabled the hacker to gain access to the U.N.’s database.

Totally not cool! Why would anyone want to hack U.N. is a mystery, perhaps they just saw the security hole and just couldn’t help it…

ACTA in Europe? No, thanks!

Posted on February 12, 2012 by bcat

Here’s an Anonimous vid on this topic, everything is as usual except it was posted in 2009, so they really do this ACTA thing for some time now: Continue reading →

FBI Chat Unencrypted?

Posted on February 11, 2012 by bcat

Cybercrime related conference call between FBI agents and British law enforcement officials was hacked. Read the article on CRN…

Anonymous claimed responsibility for recording the meeting and posting it on the Web, here’s the tweet:

Erm, did anyone tell the FBI that we’re NOT Pokemon? You really CANNOT catch us all…

Hello world!

Posted on February 5, 2012 by bcat

Here is the first post, somehow I just couldn’t delete it. Why did you scroll all the way down here anyway? Ok, I’m sure you have your reasons, but that’s it, there is nothing below this post.