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- Citizen Science Quarterly: CC-licensed journal for citizen science
- Court forces Twitter to expose anonymous government critic
- Canadian indie ISP owner recounts how corrupt monopoly drove her out of business
- Painful workarounds from computer novices
- Did the U.S. help make Stuxnet?
- Gamestop flogging "download insurance"
- Blue Angels leader fired for being too badass
| Posted: 29 May 2011 09:06 PM PDT Joseph Omwoyo, a 17 year old student in rural Kenya, started building this junk helicopter after visiting an airport; he hopes to be an aviation engineer some day. He should hook up with the Kenyan IT guy who's building a junk airplane. |
| PBS hacked in retribution for Frontline Wikileaks episode Posted: 30 May 2011 01:28 AM PDT  The PBS.org website, and data associated with the PBS television network, its programs, and its affiliate stations, appear to have just been hacked by an entity calling itself LulzSec (or "The Lulz Boat"). The hack was made public around 1130pm ET, Sunday, May 29, and included cracking the PBS server, posting a bogus news story and some defacements, and publishing what appear to be thousands of passwords. The information compromised and published included network, server, and database details and logins, as well as user login data for some PBS staff and contractors. As of 3:24am ET Monday, some defacements are still live on pbs.org. The group that carried out the hack claims they are not affiliated with "Anonymous", and that the action is retribution for the recent "Wikisecrets" episode on Wikileaks, which was perceived by Wikileaks and its supporters to be unfair to Wikileaks. According to an article in the Australian edition of IT security publication SC Magazine, LulzSec has gone after other media entities in recent weeks: Fox News Network and the TV show X-Factor are reported as prior targets. As the name implies, LulzSec would appear to be in it for the proverbial lulz, rather than, say, financial gain. Greetings, Internets. We just finished watching WikiSecrets and were less than impressed. We decided to sail our Lulz Boat over to the PBS servers for further... perusing. As you should know by now, not even that fancy-ass fortress from the third shitty Pirates of the Caribbean movie (first one was better!) can withhold our barrage of chaos and lulz. Anyway, unnecessary sequels aside... wait, actually: second and third Matrix movies sucked too! Anyway, say hello to the insides of the PBS servers, folks. They best watch where they're sailing next time.The PBS program Frontline (and specifically the producers of the "Wikisecrets" episode), may have been the stated target, but the scope of intrusion was significantly more broad. And the Frontline site and its "Wikisecrets" subsite don't show any signs of a hack at all.
LulzSec posted an overview of the data and defacements here.
Below, a screengrab of @LulzSec's Twitter timeline documenting the attack. Click for full size.
UPDATE, 3:50am ET: Wired story here, New York Times story here.
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| Activists' impromptu press conference at the EG8 conference Posted: 29 May 2011 10:14 PM PDT After Sarkozy's "EG8" conference last week -- an event that brought together government leaders and Internet execs to legitimize an effort to censor and surveil the net -- a group of civil society people and activists threw an impromptu press-conference to explain what Sarko and company missed by treating the net as simply an engine for big business. And so, yesterday, in Paris, civil society threw together an impromptu press conference, featuring Harvard's Larry Lessig, La Quadrature du Net's Jérémie Zimmermann, CUNY's Jeff Jarvis, former ICANN board member/former White House advisor Susan Crawford, Reporters Without Borders' Jean-François Julliard, and Harvard's Yochai Benkler. The spirt of the event was captured by Lessig. Business is important, the professor argued. But there are more than the interests of just business at stake when it comes to the future of the global network.At E-G8, Civil Society Groups Restake Their Claim on the 'Net |
| Posted: 29 May 2011 08:50 PM PDT  I'm pretty sure this pic doing the rounds is old, but I haven't been able to figure out the original source through the usual chanels. From Design Boom via JWalk. |
| Posted: 29 May 2011 07:08 PM PDT  Brock Davis made this awesome contribution to the Boing Boing Flickr Pool. UPDATE: Turns out Brock also did, among many other great things, the photo of Rice Krispiehenge that Xeni posted a while ago. Way to go, Brock! |
| Posted: 28 May 2011 04:28 AM PDT  I have 4 kids and we are outdoors as much as possible. One down side is my blonde kids can easily get too much sun. I have tried almost every sunscreen out there and these sunscreen towelettes are the best. They come in a "baby-wipe" style of dispenser, or as individually wrapped foil packets. Each towelette has enough sunscreen to cover a person from head to toe. The kids no longer complain about it in their eyes or how cold the aerosol cans are. I also like it because it is fast to apply and easy to carry with us. It's also easy to keep the pack in our car just in case. --Scott Newton SunX Sunscreen Towelettes SPF 30 25 individually wrapped towelettes $13 [Note: I just discovered these a few weeks ago and agree that they make the normally greasy act of applying sunscreen far more pleasant. It's also easy to throw a wrapped towelette in your bag if you don't want to carry around a leaky bottle of sunscreen. -- OH] Some commenters have pointed out that you can find this in a case of 16 in a wet wipe container, but there doesn't appear to be an affordable retailer online. Don't forget to submit a tool! |
| Citizen Science Quarterly: CC-licensed journal for citizen science Posted: 29 May 2011 08:45 AM PDT  I've finally gotten around to reading the inaugural edition of the Citizen Science Quarterly, a reader-support, Creative Commons licensed journal devoted to nonexpert experimentation and discovery. It's an extremely eclectic read, with a good mix of editorial, experimental writeups, polemics, practical HOWTOs and miscellania. I really enjoyed Andrew Hessel's op-ed on bioinformatics and fabrication, which explored the idea that cells can be thought of as bio-fabricators, 3D printers whose operating system we have yet to master. I was also engrossed by a brief "molecular gastronomy" HOWTO, a piece on culturing yeast, information on sourcing supplies for DIY bioscience, and a manifesto for involving patients' experiments and input in medical research. The copyediting and writing are a little uneven, but that just lends CSQ a nice, homespun feeling. All in all, this is an exciting new journal and a treat to read. |
| Court forces Twitter to expose anonymous government critic Posted: 29 May 2011 09:50 AM PDT According to The Guardian, a California court has forced Twitter to hand over personal details of an account-holder who criticized local government officials in Tyneside, England. There is some confusion today due to The Telegraph inarticulately tying this libel case, fought in U.S courts, to a forthcoming privacy case in the U.K., where footballer Ryan Giggs' superinjuncted penis was exposed on Twitter. |
| Canadian indie ISP owner recounts how corrupt monopoly drove her out of business Posted: 29 May 2011 07:54 AM PDT Here's a sad and infuriating video from Cindy Quigley, founder of the now-defunct independent Canadian ISP OnCall. OnCall got its services via Telus, a regulated monopoly carrier, which drove them out of business with fraudulent charges and perjured testimony before an arbitrator and the regulator -- all of which came to light after the ISP went bust and lost the power to do anything about it. |
| Painful workarounds from computer novices Posted: 29 May 2011 07:50 AM PDT Ask Reddit's got a fun thread: "what is the most painful way you have seen your co-worker accomplish something very simple?" As painful as this stuff is to read, it's a reminder that intelligent, experienced people often find familiar computing interface elements and metaphors impossible to parse. Opens XP Internet Explorer, inhabited by so many toolbars that the actual display window resembles the eye slit on a hunting blind.what is the most painful way you have seen your co-worker accomplish something very simple? (self.AskReddit) |
| Did the U.S. help make Stuxnet? Posted: 29 May 2011 07:48 AM PDT Interviewed by CNBC, Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn would not deny that the U.S. was involved in creating Stuxnet: "this is not something that we're going to be able to answer," he told correspondent Melissa Lee. |
| Gamestop flogging "download insurance" Posted: 29 May 2011 06:44 AM PDT Internet connections and computer hardware being finicky things, you can download your games any time you please at Steam and Amazon. At Gamestop, you must buy "download Insurance" for the privilege—it's put in your cart automatically, just in case you forget. [Reddit] |
| Blue Angels leader fired for being too badass Posted: 29 May 2011 06:49 AM PDT Navy Cmdr. Dave Koss, leader of the Blue Angels flight acrobatics team, was canned this week after "performing dangerously low maneuvers." [CSMonitor] |
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