This is pretty funny: Windows Vista’s speech recognition listens to audio files played by the speakers, so if you visit a malicious website that plays an audio file telling your computer to delete your files, and you have your speakers and microphone on, you’re toast.
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9/12/2009My mother’s blog — Adventures in Parenting.org — was hacked today. It took a couple hours to do the research and fix the site, but I think things have mostly settled down now. Unfortunately, it’s impossible to know — without … Continue reading →
I reverted vandalism on the Secure Digital card article on Wikipedia
8/6/2008Hey, today I undid some vandalism someone called “SmackBot” did to the Secure Digital card article on Wikipedia. The edits are so outrageous I can hardly understand why the person did it. Maybe it’s a bot designed to make Wikipedia … Continue reading →
Free PlanetSC.com email address
4/10/2007Interested in a free PlanetSC.com email address? Just in case you’re looking for a better email service (or homepage or calendar), I thought I’d go ahead and plug PlanetSC.com. I bought it for $10 about 4 months ago and it … Continue reading →
Forgetfulness
1/10/2007I was about to write something really awesome in my blog, but my roommate asked to check out the fingerprint reader in my new laptop (which I was happy to show him), and then I forgot what I was going … Continue reading →
Elliot’s Short Updates for 2008-10-23 via Twitter
10/23/2008Scheduling UPE interviews. http://upe.usc.edu/ # Reading “A Revolution in Thinking or How I Stopped Drinking the Kool-Aid” – http://www.chancelitton.com/?p=94 – via Campaign for Liberty # xkcd – http://xkcd.com/277/ – ‘some engineer was frustrated while designing this’ # Obama: a tax … Continue reading →