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Friday, April 28, 2006

Social Engineering: The Biggest Risk to Internet Security

"Every wall has a gate through which people can walk; conventional hacking involves breaking this gate down. Social engineering is getting the gate keepers to wave you past with a smile on their faces."

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It's Official: 1 Billion Words registered for the English Language

A massive language research database responsible for bringing words such as "podcast" and "celebutante" to the pages of the Oxford dictionaries has officially hit a total of 1 billion words, researchers said Wednesday

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Apple patents for: Wireless iPods and TVs, iChat whiteboard, more

Apple Computer has recently filed for patents on several interesting technologies that cover iPods wirelessly communicating with TVs, an online teleconferencing whiteboard, an integrated sensing display, and virtual keys of a touch-screen virtual keyboard.

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Why Ugly Design Works... And Why Most Designers Miss the Point

Interesting blog entry (by a designer) supporting the "ugly design" theory. Contains some links to some other good discussions and articles on the subject.

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