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diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/08.06.07/Wed/gstreet.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/08.06.07/Wed/gstreet.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ca5eb46 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/08.06.07/Wed/gstreet.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +Google has expanded its Street View imagery with Google Maps to include views of downtown San Diego, Los Angeles, Houston and Orlando. The [new cities][2] bring the Street View service, which [launched earlier this year][3], to a total of nine metropolitan areas -- with many more said to be in the works. + +Of the new additions only San Diego has high-resolution imagery, but the others aren't too bad. + +And as with a original release, armies of bored internet junkies are out looking for people caught in humorous or compromising situations. Be sure to check out the submissions and vote for your favorite in Wired's [gallery over on the Threat Level blog][1]. + +You can submit your own images if you like, but it's going to be hard to top the dark irony of the image above -- a knife sharpening van parked outside OJ Simpson's old house. + +[1]: http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/08/request-for-la-.html +[2]: http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2007/08/more-street-view-cities.html +[3]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/05/google_maps_str_1.html
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At the moment the site times out for most requests, probably due to the massive amount of press and inbound links the release has generated. + +With a bit of patience you might be able to get the site to load, or bookmark it for later because Spock already has the gushers gushing. + +Like Wink and other people-oriented search sites, Spock isn't so much interested in documents about people, as you would get when searching Google, but the actual people themselves. Spock's spiders attempt to crawl the net and then its algorithms aggregate all the data about you into one spot. + +The result, in those cases where Spock makes a correct match, are simultaneously impressive -- a complete portrait of your total web presence -- and thoroughly creepy. When Spock was first announced earlier this year a number of people snickered that *stalk* would be a better name. + +But the truth is, that's killing messenger. All the data Spock crawls is already out there, but you may be in for a shock the first time you see it all in one place. + +Pulling data from social networks -- MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn and others -- Spock then condenses and extracts what it considers the most important information about you -- namely your occupation and age, though depending on what you've listed on your various accounts, it may have even more details. + +From the search results profiles you can then click through to vote for whether or not the information is correct, click through the relevant page or add tags to people. Just about anyone can edit information on just about any entry. + +If you sign up for Spock, you can claim and manage your own entry or create one if Spock doesn't yet know about you. + +Aside from the slow servers, Spock looks as though it might be genuinely useful -- if nothing else it might serve as a wake call for those who don't realize how little privacy they have left themselves. + +[1]: http://www.spock.com/ diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/08.06.07/Wed/streetviews.jpg b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/08.06.07/Wed/streetviews.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..5af282e --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/08.06.07/Wed/streetviews.jpg diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/08.06.07/Wed/zillafuzzy.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/08.06.07/Wed/zillafuzzy.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..51f2603 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/08.06.07/Wed/zillafuzzy.txt @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +Mozilla recently announced at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas that it would [release a series of security tools][3], known as fuzzers, which have previously only been used internally, to the internet at large. + +The move is designed to give outside hackers easier ways to test for security flaws in Firefox and other web browsers. Fuzzers are tools that poke, prod and sometimes outright attack a piece of software to test its robustness and identify potential vulnerabilities. + +Mozilla has thus far released a [Javascript fuzzer][2] and already Claudio Santambrogio of Opera Software [reports][3] that, using the new tool, Opera was able to find four bugs "one of which might have some security implications." + +For those concerned that these tools might be used in the wrong way by some, Mozilla says that it has worked with Microsoft, Apple, and Opera to make sure they were okay with the release. "All of these browser vendors reviewed the tool and let us know that they were okay with the release," says the Mozilla blog. + +The truth is, the really nefarious crackers have their own fuzzers anyway and, as the Opera announcement testifies, these tools are far more likely to help end-users in the form of patches than cause problems. + +[1]: http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2007/08/02/javascript-fuzzer-available/ +[2]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=jsfunfuzz +[3]: http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2007/08/03/fun-with-the-fuzzer |
