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The other day, I read a report that showed how one could change the default text for My T-Mobile page. That really isn’t a security vulnerability per se, but here’s one that I discovered that could be a huge hole for T-Mobile. If you go to their My T-Mobile page, you’ll noticed [...]

So, how did Nicolas Jacobsen break into T-Mobile’s servers from 2003 all the way to 2004? Through a known security hole that T-Mobile neglected to patch. According to this article this morning from Wired:
The Justice Department and the U.S. Secret Service have handled the Jacobsen prosecution with unusual secrecy, and T-Mobile has [...]

Ok, so I have been bouncing around between Camino and Omniweb. I was using Camino nightly builds happily until recently when a bug that destroys file upload buttons appeared and I couldn’t upload files to flickr anymore. I started using an older nightly build, but decided to try going with Apple’s Safari [...]

Jeff Raskin has passed away. If you don’t know who he is, he is the father of the Macintosh — read the book Apple Confidential to find out the details. Thanks Jeff for bring such a wonderful computer to life.

Today was shopping day for Eileen and I. We hit the road and headed over to Gilroy Shopping Outlets to do some shopping. Now that we live in South San Jose, the outlets are only 20 minutes away. It was a good shopping day at first and then it started [...]

This is the Monaco case that I just picked up off eBay — though the link for the item is from the actual seller’s website, I bought through eBay because paying through Yahoo! is a pain in the ass. Anyways, this case looks much better than the Kroo case that I got from [...]

Originally uploaded by triplegeek.

Check out this hilarious picture that one of the guys from the Gran Turismo 4 group at flickr. In GT4 they’ve added polygon people to make the scenes more realistic, and the fear on these polygonal people are so realistic it is just hilarious. [...]