Firefox Password Revealer

A snippet of javascript that reveals the stored password for the current page.

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Seagate Hard Drives Came With Trojan Pre-Installed (No Extra Charge)

Seagate is warning customers of its external hard drives that their bare drive may not be so bare after all, it might have a Trojan hidden on it. The infection is relatively harmless, unless you play "World of Warcraft," and still very rare. Only 1,800 machines were infected. But it does raise the issue of problems in the manufacturing process.

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YouTube - IBM Lotus Software "Tired of Feeding the Machine?"

IBM has posted a great video on youtube to promote their Lotus Symphony product. Lotus Symphony is based on OpenOffice, and is FREE.

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AT&T invents programming language for mass surveillance

From the company that brought you the C programming language comes Hancock, a C variant developed by AT&T researchers to mine gigabytes of the company's telephone and internet records for surveillance purposes.

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25 Amazing Photographs Taken at the Exact Right Time

Timing is everything, particularly in the case of amazing photography. Sometimes that means waiting through a whole sports game and getting lucky to catch just the right shot. Other times than means trudging through nature for weeks to get the perfect environmental photograph. Here are 25 examples of perfectly timed images from around the world and in various genres.

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Anatomy of the Linux File System

Linux supports a large number of file systems, from journaling to clustering to cryptographic. Linux is a wonderful platform for using and developing standard and more exotic file systems. This article explores the virtual file system (VFS) in the Linux kernel and then reviews some of the major structures that tie file systems together.

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Top 30 Failed Technology Predictions

History can be very embarrassing...

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