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	<title>by Robert J. Funches &#187; Technology</title>
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		<title>Urging Smartphone Users to Browse Less?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 04:07:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[AT&#38;T&#8217;s president and CEO of Mobility and Consumer Markets, Ralph de la Vega, has called out the smartphone crowd in recent comments to the press and investment analysts. In the days of more primitive phones, &#8220;mobile&#8221; versions of websites were necessary; small screens, small amounts of available memory, and poor image quality all brought forth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Putting Computers on One-Year Layaway</title>
		<link>http://www.robertjfunches.com/blog/2009/11/putting-computers-on-one-year-layaway/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 04:21:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert J. Funches</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A number of tech news outlets reported a Federal Trade Commission memo filed this past Thursday in an ongoing case in U.S. District Court (Southern District of New York) against a firm called BlueHippo. The FTC, which had successfully reached a settlement with the firm in April 2008, alleges that the terms of the agreement [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Live CDs Not an End-All for Online Banking</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 03:06:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert J. Funches</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington Post computer columnist Brian Krebs posted an October 12 article (picked up by Slashdot the following day) urging small and medium-sized businesses to protect their bank accounts by accessing online banking through a Linux live CD instead of a Windows workstation, due to the abundance of sophisticated malware targeting the Windows operating system. He [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sidekick Trips, But Blame It On the Cloud?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 03:01:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert J. Funches</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quite a few T-Mobile subscribers are steaming after a recent meltdown of the infrastructure supporting the Sidekick mobile phone, culminating in a dire warning: keep your device powered at all times and do not restart them, or lose all of your data. Apparently Microsoft/Danger, the phone&#8217;s developer and data service maintainer, screwed up translating the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Identity of an IP Address</title>
		<link>http://www.robertjfunches.com/blog/2009/07/identity-of-an-ip-address/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 23:44:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert J. Funches</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a story first run by Media Post News on July 6 and picked up by Slashdot on July 8, Judge Richard Jones of the U.S. District Court based in Seattle handed down a decision that defined how identifiable an IP address was. His determination: it isn&#8217;t identifiable information, as it  &#8220;identifies a computer&#8221; rather [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Ringtones Perform</title>
		<link>http://www.robertjfunches.com/blog/2009/07/when-ringtones-perform/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 23:55:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert J. Funches</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ASCAP is continuing to pursue a lawsuit against AT&#38;T for music-based ringtones; it&#8217;s a story that&#8217;s made its way across the Web by now, with Ars Technica (http://arstechnica.com/media/news/2009/06/ringing-up-cash-ascap-suing-att-for-ringtone-performance.ars) being one of the larger outlets to pick the story up. It&#8217;s an intriguing legal argument: a ringtone that is from a song can be played in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SANS ISC Reports Apache 1.x/2.x DoS Tool</title>
		<link>http://www.robertjfunches.com/blog/2009/06/sans-isc-reports-apache-1x2x-dos-tool/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 02:31:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert J. Funches</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can find the technical details at http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=6601 as reported by handler Bojan Zdrnja today on the ISC diary. It&#8217;s a surprisingly simple attack (the handler points out that even an attacker on a slow connection could easily DoS an Apache server on a fast connection) but considering that it affects the older 1.x branch [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Matching For You: NYSE&#8217;s Matching Engine One Sputters</title>
		<link>http://www.robertjfunches.com/blog/2009/06/no-matching-for-you-nyses-matching-engine-one-sputters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 01:55:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert J. Funches</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) found itself a little quieter close to noon today when its order-matching system decided to head to the Hamptons a few hours early. The string of notifications from NYSE (which will move to the archive; click the plus sign next to &#8220;Archive of System Status Notifications&#8221;) show that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mini &#8220;Great Firewall&#8221; For Every Chinese PC</title>
		<link>http://www.robertjfunches.com/blog/2009/06/mini-great-firewall/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:35:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert J. Funches</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal obtained a copy of a notice from China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology that indicates the government's desire to bundle a software agent (Loretta Chao, "China Squeezes PC Makers," 8 June 2009, page A1) with every personal computer sold in China which will block access to objectionable websites. According to the report, the software, called "Green Dam-Youth Escort," is developed by Jinhui Computer System Engineering Co., which has partnerships and agreements with the Chinese government, and company and government officials say that the program poses no additional risks to users and hasn't caused problems on test systems. [...]

Ignoring the political and free-speech debates surrounding this reported move (the notice has not been publicly circulated or announced by the Chinese government), there are a few inherent flaws with this attempt to block "objectionable" content. ]]></description>
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