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• Porn plus Facebook can lead to embarrassment, perhaps worse
  Tim Greene
  Nov 25 2009

  The mechanism behind a click-jacking attack that was spread by luring in Facebook users with a link to a porn site that has the potential to do more damage than just embarrassing those who fall for ...

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• Freenet Lets You Browse the Web Freely
  Preston Gralla
  Nov 25 2009

  Large swaths of the world are subject to censorship, or else track their citizens' use of the Internet. Free program Freenet lets you anonymously browse the Web, share files, chat on forums, and ...

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• CI Design iStoragePro Pocket
  Chris Holt
  Nov 25 2009

  With so many big developers updating their product lines, small tech companies often get lost in the shuffle. To stand out during the Fall hard drive push, your drive has to have a real wow factor. ...

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• Will Google’s Deal with TiVo Push More Video to the Web?
  Jacqueline Emigh
  Nov 25 2009

  To make TV commercials far more targeted than anyone has ever dreamed of, Google and TiVo are now teaming on a deal that gives companies buying ads through Google's TV Ads division access to ...

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• Redirecting DNS requests can harm the Internet, says ICANN
  Mikael Ricknäs
  Nov 25 2009

  ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) on Tuesday condemned the practice of redirecting Internet users to a third-party Web site or portal when they misspell a Web address and ...

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• You’ve been hacked. Now what?
  Chris Drake
  Nov 25 2009

  (Editor’s note: Chris Drake is CEO and founder of FireHost, Inc., a secure Web hosting company. He submitted this story to VentureBeat.) The holiday season is critical to any customer-focused ...

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• NASA’s Atlantis leaves space station, targets Earth
  Michael Cooney
  Nov 25 2009

  After a smooth and successful mission with the International Space Station, NASA’s space shuttle Atlantis this morning undocked from the station, prepared for an uneventful Thanksgiving and began ...

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• Ustream launches viewer app for Android
  Cody Barbierri
  Nov 25 2009

  Interested in seeing a live KISS concert tonight? Ustream, a live interactive video broadcast platform, has just launched its mobile viewer version for Android phones. The live viewing application, ...

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• 2009 geek gift guide: Toys and books for techies
  Galen Gruman
  Nov 25 2009

  Finding the perfect gift for techies is no easy matter. After all, by definition, geeks are steeped in the latest and greatest of tech gadgets, and it's just as difficult to find a tech-based ...

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• SANS official talks security
  M. E. Kabay
  Nov 25 2009

  This is the second of two parts of an interview of Stephen Northcutt by technologist David Greer. Everything that follows is by Messrs Greer and Northcutt with minor edits. (See part 1.)* * *DG: It ...

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