Scary Tech

Follow-up: Build-A-Bear says it will take privacy suggestions to heartPosted by Denise Howell in Lawgarithms on Jan 26, 2008 5:00 PM Subscribe Alerts: In response to my earlier post about the way Build-A-Bear entices children and parents to give up personal data, the company says it will take my suggestions to heart and...[Read the rest]

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Harvesting data from children with cuddly creatures and cutesy keyboards: And you thought Beacon is (was) creepy. Yesterday I had my first experience at a Build-A-Bear Workshop store. Build-A-Bear, if you're not familiar with it, is a publicly traded... [Read the rest]; Posted by Denise Howell in Lawgarithms on: Jan 21, 2008 2:16 PM; 4 Comments
In Second Life, those on 'Candid Copybot' aren't smiling: A CopyBot tool that replicates in-game assets has some Second Life users in an uproar. But is the best solution to ban such tools or, as with real world copy... [Read the rest]; Posted by Denise Howell in Lawgarithms on: Nov 15, 2006 2:17 PM; 1 Comment
Technology that gives us the creeps: Sure, IT matters -- and technology is cool. Except when it's just plain scary. Fom DRM to PattyMail, floating nuke plants to IT Frankensteins, here are the techno bogeymen that... [Read the rest]; Posted by David Grober in Between the Lines on: Oct 26, 2006 5:42 AM
Trick or treat...64-bit drivers?: Halloween is only a week and half a way, but I got my own treat this week (and just a few too many tricks for my taste). [Read the rest]; Posted by Christopher Dawson in ZDNet Education on: Oct 20, 2006 9:17 PM
Scary malware tricks part 1: In keeping with the Halloween season, Im starting a series on scary malware tricks, similar to last years series on spyware tricks. Perhaps my personal focus has changed, but it... [Read the rest]; Posted by Suzi Turner in Spyware Confidential on: Oct 20, 2006 11:57 AM; 1 Comment
Scary: Where did I put that?: Our enterprising editor has asked all of blogging at ZDNet to contribute a post about something scary to celebrate the season. What's really scary is that, in this early stage... [Read the rest]; Posted by Marc Orchant in Office Evolution on: Oct 20, 2006 7:23 AM
Web 2.0 Security Scares: For web-based businesses like Google and MySpace, AJAX flings open the door to new malware propagation methods few things are more scary than malicious attacks on the code of your... [Read the rest]; Posted by Richard MacManus in Web 2.0 Explorer on: Oct 19, 2006 3:04 AM; 12 Comments
Frustrated consumers forced into piracy: Finally, the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) might be starting to realize that their attempts to control and reduce piracy might actually be having the opposite effect, and are... [Read the rest]; Posted by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes in Hardware 2.0 on: Oct 17, 2006 1:09 PM
Is Zune-to-Zune sharing really that scary?: The Microsoft Zune will be hitting stores shortly after Halloween and some reports of DRM being applied to your own content are scary. We clear up the DRM issue, but... [Read the rest]; Posted by Matthew Miller in The Mobile Gadgeteer on: Oct 17, 2006 7:23 AM
My scariest thoughts in this ghoulish season -- a lack of business continuity: To keep business up and running -- even when disaster strikes -- requires careful planning in advance. Smart enterprises will have a full contingency plan in place that automatically goes... [Read the rest]; Posted by Dana Gardner in BriefingsDirect on: Oct 16, 2006 11:44 AM
Scary: Anything without support: What most frightens a business or consumer user? Being left without support when Murphy's Law comes calling. [Read the rest]; Posted by Dana Blankenhorn in Linux and Open Source on: Oct 16, 2006 7:53 AM
Student information systems, revisited: Talk about scary technology...Have you seen what's passing for student information systems these days? [Read the rest]; Posted by Christopher Dawson in ZDNet Education on: Oct 15, 2006 7:17 PM
A Russian floating nuclear plant?: Two Russian companies plan to build the world's first floating nuclear power plant to deliver cheap electricity to northern territories. The construction should start next year for a deployment in... [Read the rest]; Posted by Roland Piquepaille in Emerging Tech on: Oct 15, 2006 10:25 AM
DMCA should scare us all: Has the Digital Millenium Copyright Act turned the tide on piracy or opened the door to corporate abuse? [Read the rest]; Posted by Marc Wagner in Between the Lines on: Oct 14, 2006 2:34 PM
Love is scary: What NOT to do in online dating: Halloween’s once-a-year scary, but merry, festivities will soon be upon us. Online dating, however, is a scary proposition all year long. Below are some tips on what NOT to do... [Read the rest]; Posted by Donna Bogatin in Digital Markets on: Oct 13, 2006 12:38 PM
Scary bloggie: Paul Murphy doing Windows?: And, FYI Intel fans - here's a fact to throw into the intellectual hopper: IBM's Power6 dual core, altivec equiped, PPC coming out next year? 5.0 Ghz on 32MB of... [Read the rest]; Posted by Paul Murphy in Managing L'unix on: Oct 13, 2006 12:15 AM
Voting electronically? Be very afraid!: This Novembers election marks the first widespread use of electronic voting in the US. There is considerable concern among computer security professionals and others that electronic voting is not... [Read the rest]; Posted by Phil Windley in Between the Lines on: Oct 10, 2006 12:50 PM
SOA meets virtualization:IT 'Frankenstein' in the making?: Is SOA a form of application virtualization? Or will the combination of virtualization and SOA result in an out-of-control Frankenstein?Theres been plenty written lately about the intersection of service-oriented architecture... [Read the rest]; Posted by Joe McKendrick in Service Oriented on: Oct 10, 2006 7:29 AM
Google: Should we cheer it or fear it?: Every day seems to bring another reason to cheer “everyone’s favorite garage band,” Google: Multi-billion dollar acquisitions (YouTube), strategic alliances (Intuit), product introductions (Google Apps)…Now may be the time to... [Read the rest]; Posted by Donna Bogatin in Digital Markets on: Oct 9, 2006 5:50 PM
If this blog is an ad, then Spock has a goatee and Sulu has a dueling scar: Wikipedia cites Mr. Spocks goatee from the original Star Trek series episode Mirror Mirror as "a part of popular culture as a satirical symbol of evil and normality run amok."... [Read the rest]; Posted by Denise Howell in Lawgarithms on: Oct 9, 2006 9:48 AM; 2 Comments
IT matters most, but there are other techs to watch - and fear: Last week, at MITs Emerging Technologies Conference, I decided to corner Jason Pontin who is not only the editor-in-chief and publisher of MITs Technology Review Magazine, but hes also the... [Read the rest]; Posted by David Berlind in Between the Lines on: Oct 3, 2006 3:19 PM
Have you received any "traceable" PattyMail recently?: If youve been following the HP privacy debacle at all, then youd know that one of the techniques that investigators tried on CNET News.coms Dawn Kawamoto (in order to figure... [Read the rest]; Posted by David Berlind in Between the Lines on: Sep 26, 2006 4:38 PM
Should anti-spyware programs remove cookies?: Spyware expert Ben Edelman has written a great piece on anti-spyware programs and cookies. He tested eleven different anti-spyware programs against cookies from 50 advertising systems and posted detailed results... [Read the rest]; Posted by Suzi Turner in Spyware Confidential on: Sep 18, 2006 10:17 PM; 13 Comments
Busted! What happens when WGA attacks: When Microsoft's Windows Genuine Advantage software kicks in and identifies your copy of Windows as "non-genuine," what happens next? On the surface, at least, Microsoft is all tea and sympathy:... [Read the rest]; Posted by Ed Bott in Ed Bott's Microsoft Report on: Aug 10, 2006 4:45 AM; 438 Comments
IT shops 'afraid of SaaS': Two thirds of companies are missing out on the potential advantages of a SaaS solution simply because the IT department are scared of trying SaaS, a vendor claims. [Read the rest]; Posted by Phil Wainewright in Software as Services on: Aug 9, 2006 12:42 PM
DRM for text? That's next: Yesterday, while opening an email that I received in Outlook, the following message appeared. It may have appeared when the message was opened, or when I attempted to open the... [Read the rest]; Posted by David Berlind in Between the Lines on: Aug 4, 2006 1:44 PM
Surveillance society: Growing daily?: A bill being floated on Capitol Hill by Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner (R.—Wisconsin) would require Internet service providers to deliver logs of users' surfing data to the government. Is it... [Read the rest]; Posted by Mitch Ratcliffe in Rational Rants on: May 17, 2006 1:37 PM; 9 Comments