Microsoft acquires patent for U-Prove

I'd love to see more developments about this.

For those who don't know, U-Prove is an algorithm that allows users to selectively disclose private information. I guess this acquisition answers Schneier's doubt about its business model :)

All hail the flying spaghetti monster

It has come to save us all from doom! Or at least, to put a smile on our faces.

Ian Hickson on the performance aspect of Acid3

Ian quantifies the requirements to "smooth animation".

How not to secure your borders

So apparently, the US is outsourcing the manufacturing of passports to some questionable companies. Why? Because it's cheaper, of course.

Happy April's Fools

Ha ha ha.

The threat of the millenium?

This is an interesting article about the potential risks of prolonged cell phone usage.

If it turns out that long term exposure to cell phone radiation is indeed cancerous (and I'm going to guess that it is), it'd likely become a debate as heated as those about global warming. The major difference is that with wireless radiation, there are major stakeholders in the telecommunications industry, and there could be deep implications to freedom of communication as we know it today.

Of course, I could be totally off here.

Opera Acid 3 update

We can now download a public build of Opera that passes Acid3.

Bashing Apple is trendy now

It's the bandwagon effect. There, I said it. I think we can expect this sort of negative infosec press a lot from now on.

I'm not saying they're great at security; in fact, obscurity has been historically one of the main reasons macs are more secure than PCs. If Apple doesn't do something about its underdog-style infrastructure, it'll simply continue to get beaten up like Microsoft was. As Sun Tzu would say, that's the tao.

Ruby on the browser

Ok, this is really cool. Someone wrote a Ruby interpreter in javascript, which essentially means you can run ruby on any javascript-enabled browser. I'd love to see more work on this field and hopefully get other languages in the browser. Then, maybe in a not so distant future, browser makers would consider implementing these interpreters natively.

Apple is turning into the new Microsoft

Come on, guys. This is one of the first things any hacker or quality control specialist would try and it broke. What a shame.