Tag: hack

  • Blog still hacked?

    —

    by

    Tom Raftery
    in

    I mentioned here the other day that this blog was hacked and I thought I had resolved it – now I’m not so sure. The hack is a tricky one because the spam it is displaying is only visible in Google Reader! (and not in any other RSS reader). I have completely deleted all the…

  • OS X Leopard hacked to run on PCs

    —

    by

    Tom Raftery
    in , ,

    With Apple’s move to Intel chips for its Macs, the last significant difference in the hardware architecture between Macs and PCs disappeared. This meant that Apple’s much vaunted OS X operating system is designed to work on PC hardware. Leopard, Apple’s latest version of OS X was released on Friday 26th last and in just…

  • Where's the case for data retention?

    —

    by

    Tom Raftery
    in

    Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt announced today that he thinks the greatest danger to people’s privacy is not from leaks of people’s data as happened earlier this week to AOL users but rather from government snooping. I have always worried the query stream is a fertile ground for governments to snoop on the people. This is…