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Obama’s Poems Show Real Talent

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:12:53 GMT

clipped by: merrie
clipper's remarks: .....example of the genre.”

Of note, Politico observes that “the temperate legal language doesn't display the rhetorical heights that run through his memoir, published a few years later.”

But then somehow, those few years later, this 33 year-old amateur with no paper trail beyond a hack legal note and a poem about fig-stomping apes produced what Time Magazine has called--with a straight face-- “the best-written memoir ever produced by an American politician.”

The public is asked to believe that Obama did this on his own, almost as though he were some sort of literary idiot savant. I don’t buy this canard for a minute.

To enhance the science of this literary investigation, I made some inquiries into the academy. . .he encouraged me instead “to do what you're already doing . . . good old-fashioned literary detective work.”

Given that advice, I dug deeper into the memoir of the man who, I believe, tortured Dreams From My Father . . .

Clip Source: cashill.com

Prior to 1990, when Barack Obama contracted to write Dreams From My Father, he had written very close to nothing.

As an undergraduate at Occidental College, Obama had composed what he calls some “very bad poetry,” and he does not sell himself short.

In 1981, Occidental’s literary magazine published two of Obama’s poems—“Pop” and “Underground.” These poems are only a little sillier than the average undergraduate’s, but they show not a glint of promise. From “Underground”:

Los Angeles media critic Kevin Roderick rightly described the exposure of Obama’s two published poems as a “semi-cruel exercise."

In a similar spirit, the Independent of London headlined its article on Obama’s early poetry, “Pop goes myth of Obama the young prodigy.”

It would be another decade before Obama had anything in print and this a heavily edited, unsigned student case comment in the Harvard Law Review unearthed by Politico.

Attorneys who reviewed the piece for Politico described it charitably as “a fairly standard

Tags: obama, "pop"and"underground", "dreams from my father"

All Your Information Are Belong to US

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:07:31 GMT

clipped by: biverson

Clip Source: arstechnica.com

RFID passport hack has scanner seeing visions of Elvis

Back in August, a security researcher named Jeroen van Beek demonstrated a method for manipulating information in the RFID tags used in recent passports; more details of the process were discussed at the Black Hat conference held in Las Vegas that month. Now, a member of the group The Hacker's Choice (THC) has built on that knowledge to describe how anyone can use some free software and cheap hardware to manipulate the personal data on a passport RFID tag. The hack comes accompanied by a video showing a machine in Amsterdam's airport reading Elvis Presley's personal information off a hacked chip.

Jill Greenburg Hack Photographer

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 19:55:35 GMT

clipped by: sparlingphoto
clipper's remarks: What a freak...scorned by the majority in the photographic profession. I hope this ruins her already mediocre reputaion.

Clip Source: www.pdnpulse.com

By now you’ve probably read David Walker’s post about Jill Greenberg’s photo shoot of Sen. John McCain.

Briefly: As Greenberg carried out an assignment to photograph McCain for the cover of The Atlantic, she fired off a few unflattering outtakes. Then she posted them on her Web site, adding some grotesque retouching and slogans ridiculing the Republican candidate. Greenberg, who reached out to PDN last week to talk about the shoot, said at the time, "I want to stir stuff up." Did she ever!

After our posting Friday, media outlets around the country picked up our story. Hundreds of you (including, evidently, a lot of first-time PDN readers) posted comments. The reaction was overwhelmingly critical of Greenberg. Even among professional photographers, many said Greenberg acted unprofessionally.

The writer of The Atlantic's cover story, Jeffrey Goldberg, wrote on his blog that Greenberg "betrayed this magazine, and disgraced her profession."

PWNED Sarah Palin's Yahoo Email Hacked ~Insider Secrets~

Sat, 20 Sep 2008 00:18:47 GMT

clipped by: danrox77
clipper's remarks: I found out later though more research that they met at high school, so I did variations of that, high, high school, eventually hit on "Wasilla high" I promptly changed the password to popcorn and took a cold shower…
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The lesson is not to use any guessable or publicly available information in your security settings -- especially if you are famous. Pick something obscure, or lie. It doesn't have to be true: you just have to be able to remember it.

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

How Sarah Palin's Yahoo mailbox was so easily hacked

By resetting the password, research and guesswork. So it's time to think about your own "security question," too

Alaska governer Sarah Palin's private Yahoo mailbox was penetrated on Tuesday, and the hacker has explained how easy it was on the 4chan message board, and duly preserved by Kim Zetter at Wired Blogs. It turns out it was much simpler than guessing her password. The hacker simply reset the password, after guessing the security questions using Google to find the information required. He writes:

after the password recovery was reenabled, it took seriously 45 mins on wikipedia and google to find the info, Birthday? 15 seconds on wikipedia, zip code? well she had always been from wasilla, and it only has 2 zip codes (thanks online postal service!)

the second was somewhat harder, the question was "where did you meet your spouse?" did some research, and apparently she had eloped with mister palin after college …

Tags: hack, hacker, sarah palin, alaska, password, yahoo

Hacking is Easy, Fun, But Unfortunately Still Wrong

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 05:54:11 GMT

clipped by: I Google Myself
clipper's remarks: Now I don't like Palin but this doesn't mean that I agree with what this guy did. I would be pissed if someone hacked into my email.

Poor guy it wasn't even worth it, he didn't even find anything incriminating....cool how he easy it was though....but yes still wrong.

Clip Source: blog.wired.com

Palin E-Mail Hacker Says It Was Easy

The story was briefly posted Wednesday to the 4chan forum where the hack first surfaced. Bloggers have connected the handle of the poster, "Rubico," to an e-mail address, and tentatively identified the owner as a college student in Tennessee.

As detailed in the postings, the Palin hack didn't require any real skill. Instead, the hacker simply reset Palin's password using her birthdate, ZIP code and information about where she met her spouse -- the security question on her Yahoo account, which was answered (Wasilla High) by a simple Google search.

The simplicity of the attack, of course, makes it no less illegal.

Once the hacker had read the e-mails in Palin's account, he said he suddenly realized what he'd done and how vulnerable he was to being caught, since he'd used only a single proxy service to hide his IP address.

Tags: hacking palins email

Simple Hacks for Simple People

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:07:14 GMT

clipped by: powerof2
clipper's remarks: Ask me how: http://hacktocrack.wordpress.com/2008/02/28/how-to-hack-gmail-or-yahoo-or-hotmail-or-any-other-2/

Clip Source: blog.wired.com

Palin E-Mail Hacker Says It Was Easy

A person claiming to be the hacker who obtained access to Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's private Yahoo e-mail on Tuesday has posted a supposed first-person account of the hack, revealing the relatively simple steps he says he took to crack the private e-mail of the Republican vice-presidential candidate.

FactCheck: "Obama Nation" a "paste-up job"

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 02:47:50 GMT

clipped by: masbury
clipper's remarks: "even a casual glance at Corsi's lengthy endnotes reveals that his 'sources' include obscure Internet postings (which are themselves completely unsourced) and opinion columns from various conservative publications. In fact, on four occasions, Corsi cites himself as a source. Where Corsi does cite news sources, he sometimes presents only those that are consistent with his case while ignoring evidence that doesn't fit the picture he paints.

"A comprehensive review of all the false claims in Corsi's book would itself be a book. Our review touches only on a few of the more blatant examples." See link for examples.

Clip Source: www.factcheck.org

Jerome Corsi's "The Obama Nation" is a mishmash of unsupported conjecture, half-truths, logical fallacies and outright falsehoods.

Despite its place near the top of The New York Times' nonfiction bestseller list

Jerome Corsi's "The Obama Nation" is not

a reliable source of facts

Corsi cites opinion columns and unsourced, anonymous blogs as if they were evidence of factual claims. Where he does cite legitimate news sources, he frequently distorts the facts. In some cases, Corsi simply ignores readily accessible information when it conflicts with his arguments

Mary Matalin, the chief editor of the book's publisher, told The New York Times that the book is not political, but rather, "a piece of scholarship, and a good one at that."

as a scholarly work, "The Obama Nation" does not measure up. We judge it to be what a hack journalist might call a "paste-up job," gluing together snippets from here and there without much regard for their truthfulness or accuracy.

Tags: obama, corsi, obama nation

hack and control

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 06:29:33 GMT

clipped by: majorpaper

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

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Bill Gates and the Greatest Tech Hack Ever

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:44:52 GMT

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Clip Source: www.dashes.com

Bill Gates and the Greatest Tech Hack Ever

June 26, 2008

Bill Gates has pulled off one of the greatest hacks in technology and business history, by turning Microsoft's success into a force for social responsibility. Imagine imposing a tax on every corporation in the developed world, collecting $100 per white-collar worker per year, and then directing one third of the proceeds to curing AIDS and malaria. That, effectively, is what Bill Gates has done.

unofficial goal of Microsoft in its early years was to see a computer on every desk

year 2000, just 25 years after its founding, Microsoft had achieved that improbable goal

the Gates Foundation is well-covered

consider the context

the most ambitious goal you could imagine, and then achieved it just 25 years

How high did he set his new goals

stake their reputation and fortune on goals

family tradition of philanthropy

Gates Foundation being William Gates Sr.

mother Mary Maxwell Gates

opened doors for a fledgling Bill

United Way

IBM

United Way's executive

Tags: bill gates

Make Gmail Your Default Windows Email Client

Tue, 05 Dec 2006 22:10:03 GMT

clipped by: destino
clipper's remarks: Make gmail your default mail program in windows xp

Clip Source: www.googlecityforums.com

This is a nice little hack that I found. It enables you to make GMail your default email program on your PC. It also replaces the email shortcut in your WinXP Start Menu to point at your GMail account along with the Gmail icon.

Note: This hack involves editing your Windows registry which could cause serious problems if your not sure of what you are doing. To be on the safe side you should create a System Restore point before attempting.

Copy and paste the code below into a notepad (or any text editor):

[code]Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Google GMail]
@=”Google GMail”

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Google GMail\shell]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Google GMail\shell\open]
@=”Google GMail”

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Google GMail\shell\open\command]
@=”rundll32.exe url.dll,FileProtocolHandler http://www.gmail.com”

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Google GMail\DefaultIcon]
@=”C:\\WINDOWS\\gmail.ico”[/code]Save the file as “anytext.reg” using the filename of your choice in place of “anytext”. Now navigate to the file you just created. Double click on it or Right Click and than click on merge.
Now click on an empty part of your taskbar and click on Properties. Click on the “Customize” button under the Start Menu Tab. Where it says “Show on Start Menu” go to the Email: check this box and make sure it is ticked. Next in the Email drop down box open the drop box and click on Google GMail. Click OK. Click Apply Changes (or OK) in the remaining window and VOILA!

Tags: gmail, email, windows registry, registry

Hack Your Local Subway

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:31:51 GMT

clipped by: sahara

Clip Source: www.gadling.com

Frequent travelers on any metropolitan subway system know that the two major means for fare tracking and billing are via magnetic strip and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID). And every nerd and his RPG character know that those systems can be both readable and exploitable.

To see how secure the Boston subway system was, several MIT students decided to run an analysis on the security of the infrastructure; what they found was a little disturbing. By simply wandering into unlocked doors, opening unlocked cabinets and peering around they were able to find keys to the system, get access to network hardware and find and copy employee identification

On looking into the security of the magnetic and RFID systems, they were able to reverse engineer the code on the magnetic stripes and reconfigure the data to post $653 to a subway card. Similarly, the group analyzed the RFID contents and were able to disassemble the code.

Check out the full 87 page presentation on the execution hosted at MIT.

Yes, Conservatives, Inflated Tires Beats Coastal Drilling

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 21:28:41 GMT

clipped by: masbury
clipper's remarks: Add it up. Savings from offshore drilling are so puny that ...

Clip Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

Yes Conservatives, Inflated Tires Beats Coastal Drilling

on MSNBC's Morning Joe, conservative hack economist (who does not hold an economics degree) Larry Kudlow, a very loud advocate of coastal drilling, said of Obama's comments about tires, "That's not really much of a policy."

No, it's not. That was Obama's point.

Obama's actual comment last week was:

...we could save all the oil they're talking about getting off drilling, if everybody was just inflating their tires, and getting regular tune-ups. You could actually save just as much.

Where did he get that crazy idea? From George Bush's Energy Department and Environmental Protection Agency. (hat tip: Get Energy Smart! Now!)

Their joint site fueleconomy.gov is loaded with fuel-saving, money-saving tips. Keep your tires properly inflated, for example, and you can save up to 12 cents a gallon.

Compare that

with what coastal and Arctic National Wildlife Refuge drilling combined would get you two decades from now: 6 cents a gallon

Tags: energy, environment, politics

Free Speech A Casualty Of 'Hate' Powers

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 23:56:51 GMT

clipped by: merrie
clipper's remarks: What had happened is that one of the chapters of Steyn's New York Times' (and for that matter Canadian) No1 bestseller America Alone had been excerpted and published by Canada's largest weekly magazine.

The Canadian Islamic Congress, through the agency of three law students, brought complaints against Steyn and the magazine before the federal human rights commission, and also before two provincial ones. (That's another Orwellian aspect to all this; there is no rule against double, triple or any other multiple jeopardy, as there is no limit to how many complaints can be lodged before different tribunals for the same words.)

Since then more has come out that makes these Canadian tribunals or commissions seem even more like kangaroo courts than they already did, which is saying an awful lot.

The Canadian Human Rights Commission it would not go ahead with the Steyn prosecution (though the Canadian Islamic Congress has just indicated it will appeal that decision)

Clip Source: www.theaustralian.news.com.au

To be in breach of these hate speech provisions you don't need to say something untrue; you don't need to actually subject some group or person to hatred or contempt; you don't have to counsel violence. You only need to say something that the people who are chosen to staff these commissions -- and, trust me, this is not a representative cross-section of Canadian society, but more like the most ultra-PC university professor you know -- happen to think is likely to expose some group or person to hatred or contempt.

Once the commission thinks that, it can fine you, order you to pay money to those who complained, force you to apologise, and more.

That picture of an Orwellian nightmare, a nightmare where you can say something that is wholly true, and you can prove it is true, and yet you can be severely punished and stifled and forced to issue a bogus apology by hack bureaucrats, is the one that was and is facing Mark Steyn in Canada.

Tags: mark steyn, america alone, freedom of speech, canadian human rights commission, canadian islamic congress

HACK NO I ANIT GOING !

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:22:24 GMT

clipped by: jt3600
clipper's remarks: Folks there a bigger story to be hacked here with assistance from a former astronaut . These 2 guy's will state that "UFO"s" are really while the other side wants you to believe their "ASTRO - NUTS.

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

Hacker vows to fight extradition

A Briton accused of hacking into top-secret military computers has vowed to fight extradition to stand trial in the US after losing a court appeal.

4 Senate Dems urge EPA chief to resign

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:48:07 GMT

clipped by: papananook
clipper's remarks: I've watched this foot-dragging, Bush's-ass-kissing hack testify on C-SPAN and he is one of the most frustratingly not-so-subtle stonewallers ever to grace a Congressional hearing.

Clip Source: www.sfgate.com

Four Senate Democrats called on EPA chief Stephen Johnson to resign Tuesday, alleging that he gave misleading testimony to Congress and repeatedly bowed to pressure from the White House to avoid regulating greenhouse gases.

California Sen. Barbara Boxer, who chairs the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, and three other Democrats on the panel - Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and Sen. Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey - also announced they are urging Attorney General Michael Mukasey to investigate whether Johnson made false statements to Congress. Mukasey's office said it was still reviewing the request late Tuesday.

The pressure on Johnson is part of an escalating battle between Democrats in Congress and the White House over climate change policy. Democrats are seizing on new evidence that Johnson overrode the opinions of Environmental Protection Agency scientists and reversed two of his own decisions at the request of the White House.

Clipmarks | Hack Clips

Obama’s Poems Show Real Talent

All Your Information Are Belong to US

RFID passport hack has scanner seeing visions of Elvis

Jill Greenburg Hack Photographer

*PWNED* Sarah Palin's Yahoo Email Hacked ~Insider Secrets~

How Sarah Palin's Yahoo mailbox was so easily hacked

By resetting the password, research and guesswork. So it's time to think about your own "security question," too

Hacking is Easy, Fun, But Unfortunately Still Wrong

Palin E-Mail Hacker Says It Was Easy

Simple Hacks for Simple People

Palin E-Mail Hacker Says It Was Easy

FactCheck: "Obama Nation" a "paste-up job"

hack and control

Bill Gates and the Greatest Tech Hack Ever

Bill Gates and the Greatest Tech Hack Ever

June 26, 2008

Make Gmail Your Default Windows Email Client

Hack Your Local Subway

Yes, Conservatives, Inflated Tires Beats Coastal Drilling

Yes Conservatives, Inflated Tires Beats Coastal Drilling

Free Speech A Casualty Of 'Hate' Powers

HACK NO I ANIT GOING !

Hacker vows to fight extradition

4 Senate Dems urge EPA chief to resign

PWNED Sarah Palin's Yahoo Email Hacked ~Insider Secrets~