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Hackers on the MBTA, or: Why Boston’s subway system deserves to be compromised

Well, this is embarrassing. Three MIT students write a paper on how to hack the greater Boston subway fare cards. Said students are given an ‘A’ for their work and are booked to present at the annual DEFCON hacker conference in Las Vegas...

MSM Monday Round-up

Anybody else fed up with passwords? A San Jose State University professor tells us why we should be in The New York Times. It’s about time. Does anybody really think there’s a password strong...

Save the data! How safe is our personal information?

The search for the missing Registered Traveler laptop is finally over. The laptop, belonging to Verified Identity Pass Inc.(VIP), was reported missing from a locked office in the San Francisco International Airport on July...

Weekly Wrap-up

And this week we: Learned more about Latin American currency than we ever thought we would. All to take a look at Brazil’s potential for...

Microsoft’s Midori: Straight up or on the rocks?

Microsoft is planning for the retirement of Windows by working on a new operating-system—Midori.

Maybe.

Well, more than likely considering all the Internet-buzz about it (one of many projects in ‘incubation,’ according...

Forrester: No room for cowboy culture in IT

Just like Toby Keith, I should have been a cowboy. Alas, I went into journalism and never did get the hang of a lasso. If you’re in IT, a

MSM Monday Round-up

The big papers have been focusing on consumer technology a lot recently. The iPhone, Facebook, the ill-fated launch of Cuil. Sure, it’s The New York Times. General audience. I get that. But still, there must be more to computers than...

Weekly Wrapup

I just finished taking the SaaS quiz we put up on the site yesterday. I got eight of 10 questions right, which is pretty poor considering I wrote most of the stories the quiz is based...