Yesterday I wrote and article about how Iran apparently wants to create its own in-country Internet. This move is almost unprecedented with only North Korea having done this before. In the article I discussed the situation with Internet access in these two countries and also in China, which has a reasonable open policy for web [...]

Categories: The Web

For those in the US (or insomniacs in Europe) gHacks editor Mike Halsey will be the guest on the Computer America radio show tonight for a whole two hours.  The show has been running for 19 years and is the #1 daily tech podcast according to the New York Times. The show will be broadcast [...]

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Reuters are reporting that traffic for some “highly sensitive” US websites was briefly redirected through China.  In a report by the BBC, the incident, which happened for 18 minutes last April saw China Telecom send out incorrect routing formation. There’s no confirmation on whether this was intentional or not, but it comes at a time [...]

Categories: Hacking, Security

Mike Halsey will be appearing on Craig Crossman’s Computer America radio show on Friday 19th November 2010.  The show has been running for 19 years and is the #1 daily podcast in the US according to the New York Times. Mike will be talking about his new book “Troubleshooting Windows 7 Inside Out” from Microsoft Press, [...]

Categories: ghacks

Discovered the article Security guide to customs-proofing your laptop over at Cnet and thought it would be worth sharing it. It does not really add anything new to the discussion and if you have followed it here (Protect your date when travelling) at my website or at others you might already know every point that [...]

Categories: Hardware, Security

The Washington Post published an article about two policies issued by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agencies. According to those policies border agents can seize any electronic devices, including but not limited to notebooks, PDAs or storage devices and any form of documentation and paper, even in written [...]

Categories: Security

I personally think this is outrageous. Border Agents in the United States can not only search your laptop, mobile phone or any other electronic device that you might be carrying while traveling to the United States; They can also download computer contents or keep it for further examination. There are no written rules yet on [...]

Categories: Security

The PS3 has arrived in North America. The crazy thing is, if you ask me, that you read and hear more about shootings, shortages and systems that are not working than from the number one thing that should leave everything behind: Games that are fun to play. Did anyone actually buy the Playstation 3 for himself or did they all want to make a fortune by selling the system on Ebay ? With fake biddings reaching a million and more dollars Ebay decided to pull the plug and allow only auctions where the seller was able to prove that he did own the system at that time.

Categories: Entertainment, Games

This poll results did not came unexpected: 41% of all voters stated that they feared the death of net neutrality the most, followed by trojans and virii (17%), spyware, hackers and nothing (10% each), phishing (5%), spam (4%) and finally Worms with 3%.
This is an overwhelming result and I thought I explain the net(work) neutrality concept for the ones who do not know what it is. Internet providers do one thing, they provide access to the internet and make sure that you recieve all the data that you request. It does not matter if you surf to the website of a big company like ebay (amazon, microsoft) or to my blog (hehe, or even smaller websites). All data get the same treatment, none is preferred over the other.

Categories: Polls