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SJVN Tells How Reporting on Linux Has Changed in the Last 10 Years (Video)
Posted: April 5th, 2012, 2:03pm CEST by Roblimo
Tags: android
SJVN is, of course, the well-known nickname and abbreviation for Steven J. Vaughn-Nichols, who has been covering technology as a journalist since... since longer than he cares to admit... and has been covering Linux and FOSS since the 1990s. This was basically a one-question interview: "How has reporting on Linux changed in the last 10 years?" After that, except for a couple of words requesting clarifications, we just let the webcam roll. (Note: if you know someone who would make a good Slashdot video interview victim, please put us in touch with them. Thanks.)
Slashdot: IT
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Viewfinity CEO Says Many Computer Users Are Overprivileged (Video)
Posted: April 4th, 2012, 7:45pm CEST by Roblimo
Tags: security
This isn't about your place in society, but about user privileges on your computers and computer networks. The more privileges, the more risk of getting hacked and having Bad People do Bad Things to your company's computers, right? So Leonid Shtilman's company, Viewfinity, offers SaaS that helps you grant system privileges in a more granular manner than just allowing "root" and "user" accounts with nothing in between.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Blue Gecko is an 11 Year Old Remote Database Administration Startup (Video)
Posted: April 3rd, 2012, 2:49pm CEST by Roblimo
Tags: business
A company that has been going since 2001 is not exactly a startup, but Blue Gecko co-founder Sarah Novotny says that maintaining a startup mindset has helped her company keep going this long, with no end in sight. If you are thinking about starting an IT business (either now or in the future), especially one you hope will have remote clients and possibly a far-flung workforce, you should listen carefully to what Sarah has to say.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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GreenSQL is a Database Security Solution, says CTO David Maman (Video)
Posted: April 2nd, 2012, 2:09pm CEST by Roblimo
Tags: security
'GreenSQL is an Open Source database firewall used to protect databases from SQL injection attacks,' says the GreenSQL.net website, which also says, 'GreenSQL works as a proxy and has built-in support for MySQL and PostgreSQL. The logic is based on evaluation of SQL commands using a risk scoring matrix as well as blocking known db administrative commands (DROP, CREATE, etc).' The company also maintains a commercial version as a separate entity. GreenSQL CTO/CoFounder David Maman gives more details about both the company and open source GreenSQL in this video interview.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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PR Expert Andy Marken Has Some Advice for Startups and FOSS Projects (Video)
Posted: March 19th, 2012, 3:18pm CET by Roblimo
Tags: business
This is a 15 minute video conversation with Andy Marken of Marken Communications, who has been working in technology public relations long enough to know what's what -- and then some. We had a pleasant conversation via Skype, and afterwords he sent along some excellent additional advice about how to handle do-it-yourself tech industry PR.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Prof. J. Alex Halderman Tells Us Why Internet-Based Voting Is a Bad Idea (Video)
Posted: March 12th, 2012, 1:54pm CET by Roblimo
Tags: security
On March 2, 2012, Timothy wrote about University of Michigan Professor J. Alex Halderman and his contention that there is no way to have secure voting over the Internet using current technology. In this video, Alex explains what he meant and tells us about an experiment (that some might call a prank) he and his students did back in 2010, when they (legally) hacked a Washington D.C. online voting pilot project. This is, of course, a "professional driver on closed course; do not attempt" kind of thing. If you mess with voting software without permission, you might suddenly find the FBI coming through your door at 4 a.m., so please don't do it.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Video Captchas are Hard for Computers to Understand but Easy for Humans (Video)
Posted: March 5th, 2012, 2:48pm CET by Roblimo
Tags: security
A new company called NuCaptcha provides animated video captchas it says are much harder for OCR-based programs to crack than static captchas, but lots easier for humans to figure out. While at the 2012 RSA conference, Timothy Lord pointed his camcorder at NuCaptcha CTO Christopher Bailey, and had him explain how video captchas work and how the company makes money. The video includes demos of the video captchas so you can see what they look like (and the company's website has lots more video captcha examples).Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Why is the EFF at the RSA Security Conference? (Video)
Posted: March 2nd, 2012, 2:05pm CET by Roblimo
Tags: eff
Timothy asked Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) International Outreach Coordinator Maira Sutton that very question. Watch the video for her answer. It turns out that the EFF has lots of friends among RSA ("the most comprehensive forum in information security") attendees, and has some very good reasons to be there, in the midst of companies and government agencies that Timothy thinks might not only violate your privacy once in a while, but (gasp!) might even enjoy it.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Stealthy Pen Test Unit Plugs Directly Into 110 VAC Socket (Video)
Posted: March 1st, 2012, 3:31pm CET by Roblimo
Tags: security
Pwnie Express is a cute name for this tiny (and easily hidden) group of Pen Test devices. Their website says, 'Our initial hardware offering, the Pwn Plug, is the first-to-market commercial penetration testing drop box platform. This low-cost plug-and-play device is designed for remote security testing of corporate facilities, including branch offices and retail locations. A security professional or service provider can ship this device to a corporate facility and conduct a security test over the Internet without travel expenses.' Hardware buffs will recognize this unit as a SheevaPlug, but the value-add is that it's preloaded with Ubuntu Linux and and a rich suite of intrusion/testing tools. The company's 'Founder and CEO and everything else' is Dave Porcello. The video is an interview with Dave, in which he shows off and demonstrates some Pwnie Express products.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Slashdot: Linux
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Raspberry Pi Now Has Distributors -- and Will Soon Have Boards for All (Video)
Posted: February 29th, 2012, 2:01pm CET by Roblimo
Tags: Hardware
In an exclusive Transatlantic Skype conversation with Slashdot editor Timothy Lord recorded on Feb. 22, Raspberry Pi project leader Eben Upton talks about the state of Raspberry Pi, and tells us that yes -- finally -- they now have distributors in the U.S. and other countries instead trying to ship every unit from the U.K. Even better, instead of buying a batch of boards, selling them, and only then ordering another batch, the new distribution agreements mean they can keep a steady flow of orders coming in and going out. One slight downer is that people who have donated to the project may not get their Pi(s) right away; the distributors have spoken for all of the current order. Eben talks about this, and about how Raspberry Pi is going to take care of contributors, starting at about 4:15 in the video. You can also look at an in-person interview Tim did with Eben in January -- or wait until the end of today's video for a list of other Raspberry Pi videos.Read more of this story at Slashdot.