From the monthly archives:

March 2009

Classification Board Website Hacked

26 March 2009

Three versions of the ACMA blacklist have leaked to Wikileaks. Then it was revealed that anyone could extract the blacklist from the Integard filter in a 30-second hack. Now the Classification Board website has been hacked. Wouldn’t it have been ironic had the hackers elected to post the leaked ACMA blacklist on the site and then report the site to ACMA?

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Commonwealth Insecurity: Banking over HTTP

20 March 2009

CommSec uses a non-SSL frameset to deliver sensitive financial data. You never know (without some serious digging) whether the content frame is at the www.comsec.com.au domain and whether it’s using SSL, so you’ll never know whether it’s safe to enter your details there.

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iTunes 8.1 Takes 8.1 Seconds to Load

14 March 2009

Apple released iTunes 8.1. ‘iTunes gets a speed boost.’ I suppose ‘speed boost’ means that it’s faster, not fast. It takes 7–8 seconds to load, compared to one second for each of Windows Media Player 12, Microsoft Office Word 2007, and Firefox 3.0.7. It’s about time apple wrote a native Windows iTunes interface that just works.

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BigPond Cable: 80 min for $140, Excess $1.88/sec

12 March 2009

Telstra recently announced that it will upgrade its BigPond cable service in Melbourne to 100 Mbps by Christmas 2009. Big deal. You won’t see those speeds during real world usage. But if you did, at $139.95 for 60 GB of usage, you’d be paying $139.95 for 80 minutes with excess charged at $1.88 per second.

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