Month: August 2005

In a Blinking Modem, a Code of Betrayal

NY Times – Eight years ago, while working late in a darkened computer lab at the University of Seattle, Joe Loughry became fascinated with the lights blinking on the face of his modem. They seemed to be relaying information about the long file transfer he had started, and he wondered exactly how much information the tiny light-emitting diodes were transmitting.

Quite a lot, it turns out.

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Gnat or Parasite? Angst Over Adware

June 6, 2002

By JOHN BIGGS

In February, Jennifer Pazdan thought that her computer was possessed.

Ms. Pazdan, 21, who graduated last month from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, recalls downloading the popular music-file-sharing programs Morpheus and KaZaA as well as an addictive video game called Snood. Almost immediately her computer started acting strangely. Small windows with ads started popping up on her desktop. Her normally speedy computer took more than 10 minutes to perform simple tasks, and software that she didn’t know she had began causing her Internet browser to crash, forcing her to shut down her computer repeatedly.

She found out later that the programs she had intentionally installed carried a payload of smaller software programs, with names like Bonzi Buddy and Gator, aimed at serving advertisements and tracking her Internet use.
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Quoted in Red Herring: Linux Server Fits in Pocket

Portable computers are handy but here’s a gizmo likely to appeal to real geeks: A server so small it can fit in a pocket.

Realm Systems has developed the smallest Linux server at 1.6 ounces. It’s the size of a PDA and can be plugged into the USB (Universal Serial Bus) port of any computer.

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For the Ears, Wireless Gear That Brakes for Phone Calls

NY TIMES – Much as routers handle the flow of data in homes, the Plantronics Pulsar 590 headphones are routers for the ears.

The Pulsar 590 uses wireless Bluetooth technology to connect to any Bluetooth-enabled phone or an iPod or other media player with a standard headphone jack.

If your media player doesn’t have Bluetooth built in, you can use the included adapter to stream your audio over the air to the headphones. This lets you stash your player in a bag and still listen to your music.

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About Me

I live in Brooklyn, NY and write about technology, security, gadget, gear, wristwatches, and the Internet. After spending four years as an IT programmer, I switched gears and became a full-time journalist. My work has appeared in the New York Times, Laptop, PC Upgrade, Surge, Gizmodo, Men’s Health, InSync, Linux Journal, Popular Science, InSync, and I’ve written a book called Black Hat: Misfits, Criminals, and Scammers in the Internet Age.

I am currently Gadgets Editor of TechCrunch and I supervise the BWL family of blogs, SlushPile.net, WristWatchReview.com, and MacMiniGear.com.

You can reach me at john at bigwidelogic dot com or Tweet me at @johnbiggs.