Interesting Links for 07-06-2012

[andrewducker]

• Vatican invokes Streisand Effect, pushes nun-written sex advice book to the top of the charts
  (tags: funny catholic religion vatican advice sex )
• Hunting Down My Son's Killer - parents looking for the hidden cause of their child's illness. Fascinating and tragic.
  (tags: health children genetics science )
• Comcast's first inbound email via IPv6 was spam
  (tags: viaFanf spam ipv6 internet email )
• Study Finds Female-Name Chat Users Get 25 Times More Malicious Messages
  (tags: social_networking abuse gender )
• Binary was invented in 1617
  (tags: viaFanf history binary computers )
• EA boss on online sales and competing with Steam.
  (tags: sales business steam internet online ea )
• Prometheus Unbound: What The Movie Was Actually About (massive spoilers, fascinating analysis)
  (tags: RidleyScott Prometheus movie )
• LinkedIn passwords stolen - if you use it then check to see if yours was cracked, and then go change all the places you used it.
  (tags: passwords security )

Comments

[thejeopardymaze]

After reading the analysis a day or two ago I decided to take a risk and watch it this Sunday. Strangely I still have yet to see an Alien film, at least outside of a club.

[andrewducker]

Well, I hope you enjoy it, and without expectations that are too high it's more fun!

[thejeopardymaze]

Due to financial considerations, it will have to be next weekend. I hope I find it interesting.

[widgetfox.livejournal.com]

I can't be the only person who is mentally howling, "No! 11001010001!"

[simont]

Nope :-)

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

> LinkedIn passwords stolen - if you use it then check to see if yours was cracked, and then go change all the places you used it.

Or as a colleague on IRC said yesterday, if you see my LinkedIn account has some activity, that means it's been hacked :p

[andrewducker]

Yeah, it's my least used social network.

[drdoug.livejournal.com]

Funnily enough I haven't had any of the usual copious bacn from LinkedIn since this breach.

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

the whole "type your password to check" sounds SO phishing to me.....also, b*ggered if I can actually recall what my LinkedIn pwd IS anyway. Probably one of my regular set for "sites I don't give a sh*t about". So if somebody wants to try paying my electric bill they can feel free...

[pennski.livejournal.com]

That's what I was thinking too.

[skreidle.livejournal.com]

Interestingly, I finally got an email -from- LI directly, which offered "type in this URL, don't provide your pwd, and you'll be able to reset it." Which was convenient, as I didn't remember what my pwd was. So I reset it. :)

[luckylove.livejournal.com]

I don't have a LinkedIn account but apparently one of my old passwords was leaked and cracked. So either someone uses the same password as I used to use elsewhere ages ago or that site is a load of bollocks.