The BlueSniper Bluetooth sniffing and hacking “sniper rifle” is truly the Bluetooth hacker’s Bluetooth hack. Equipped with a yagi antenna, and powered by a little bitty Gumstix motherboard, the BlueSniper can detect vulnerable Bluetooth devices up to a kilometer away. A Bluejacker’s paradise. In addition, the BlueSniper, developed by Los…

From Across the Pond, written by Keith Adams over at Spamfo: In an ironic turn of events the mailing list of the Broadway musical Spamalot was exposed to anyone who viewed their site’s source code. Although it may have been caught before too many email harvesters scooped up the addresses;…

Holy complete waiver of privacy, Batman! AOL’s new terms of service for their AIM service includes that AIM users waive any right to privacy, and that the AIM user allows AOL to the right to reproduce and republish your chats anywhere, any time. Now, this only applies to users who…

Ok, now Aunty has seen her share of tattoos, and obviously has her share of computers. And some might even say that your Aunty is a …gasp … geek. But, geek tattoos? Yes. Believe it. Because Aunty is going to share some of them with you. Remember, this is not…

A Numa Numa dance contest – that’s what’s needed. Aunty’s colleague was right. Judging by the response that the Numa Numa dance has received, the way that the music is so infectious – yes, a Numa Numa dance contest is just the ticket! For those of you late to the…

A recent survey of more than 30,000 blog readers, completed and sponsored by BlogAds, has found that nearly 25% of all blog readers are between the ages of 31 and 40, earning somewhere between $45,000 and $120,000 per year, with 21% earning $60,000 to $90,000 per year, and that the…

There has been a lot of chaff flying around the Internet in the past few weeks about whether CAN-SPAM makes it illegal for ISPs to filter or block spam. So here’s the deal: It doesn’t. CAN-SPAM does not, not NOT require an ISP to accept email, CAN-SPAM compliant or otherwise….

Lexis Nexis has been compromised and has hemorrhaged the personal information of tens of thousands of individuals whose data was stored with Lexis Nexis. Identity theft is a real possibilty for these people. Many will remember that this exact same thing happened to ChoicePoint just last month. Lexis Nexis, like…

Jack Nicklaus – one of the greatest golfers in recent times. In fact Jack Nicklaus has been called the “golfer of the century”. Most sites offering information about Jack Nicklaus on the Internet would be providing things like Nicklaus’ game stats, or his biography. Or maybe information on his Jack…

They may not know it, but Wisconsin is poised to become the first state to tax downloads on the Internet. The download tax, referred to by some as the iPod tax, hidden away in Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle’s proposed budget, would tax the downloading of books, movies, artwork and songs…

The Bluetooth robot camera, controlled by your Bluetooth phone, is here! Forget about upskirting or videoing yourself with your camera phone while having sex, now you can send your new Bluetooth robot phone camera to do the job! Dubbed ROB-1 by its maker, Sony Ericsson, the new robot camera can…

We all know that a large amount of spam comes through personal computers which are connected to the Internet, and which have been hijacked – turned into “zombies” – by viruses, Trojans and the like. But did you know that, according to SpamHaus, nearly 70% of all spam comes from…

Is Tony Blair the world’s newest political spammer? It’s looking that way, as spam claiming to be from Tony Blair has hit thousands in England. Tony Blair’s labour party actually admits sending the email, although they claim that it is not spam , and that they did no wrong. Did…

Internet addiction. Did you even know that Internet addiction was formally recognized? There is even a “Center for Internet Addiction”, founded by Dr. Kimberly Young! Kimberly Young is “an internationally known expert on Internet addiction” according to her bio at the Center for Internet Addiction website. Well now PhD candidate…

Remember the MBA applicants who hacked in to the admissions database for Harvard, Stanford, Duke, and other business schools? Well, the dean of Harvard’s business school has indicated that any applicant who hacked in to find out their application results will be automatically rejected for admission regardless of what would…