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August 7, 2008  4:31 PM

How you can watch the Olympics live online (and what sysadmins can do about it)



Posted by: GuyPardon
communications, cool, event, feeds, free, Google, government, hacking, howto, interactive media, Internet, IPTV, media, Microsoft, multimedia, participation, resource, streaming, Sun Microsystems, Technology, useful, video, Web applications, Web services, wiki, Yahoo!, YouTube

After years of buildup, the Olympics are about to kick off tomorrow in Beijing. As Shamus McGillicuddy reports,

April 9, 2008  11:00 AM

Video: Botnets, Botmasters, Zombies and the greatest threat to online security?



Posted by: GuyPardon
academics, applications, code, hacking, Internet, media, Security, video, YouTube

Professor Merrick Furst, associate dean at the College of Computing at Georgia Tech, explains how botmasters use


March 19, 2008  3:26 PM

Video: Defense-in-depth with end-to-end network security



Posted by: GuyPardon
books, hacking, Security, YouTube

Network security expert Omar Santos presents material from his latest book,


March 10, 2008  9:13 AM

Video: FBI can listen even when a cellphone is turned off



Posted by: GuyPardon
applications, Audio, communications, email, government, hacking, information, Mobile, politics, Security, Technology, tool, tracking, traffic, video, YouTube

Fox News aired a report in 2006 that described how the FBI can turn on the mic on a cellphone and eavesdrop -- even if the phone is turned off. [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/O61YfvPZGJs" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /] Today's Word of the Day,


July 5, 2007  5:56 PM

Hacker or cracker?



Posted by: Ivy Wigmore
commentary, controversy, conversation, hacking, hacks, word meanings

Throughout the years I've been writing and editing on WhatIs, I don't think there's been another issue that's cropped up as often or been as gnarly to try to settle as the question of whether a person who attacks computers and networks is a hacker or a cracker. Just about everyone but the serious...


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