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Threat Level – Wired Blogs Computer science professor Steven Bellovin — one of the most knowledgeable outsiders on the government’s eavesdropping mandates known as CALEA, pored over recently released documents that outline the FBI’s extensive, eavesdropping architecture. He concludes that they don’t bode well for anyone: I don’t think the FBI really understands computer security. [...]

I thought I was the last person to see this, but I guess not. Supposedly these guys have already been hired by Adobe.

freshmeat.net: Project details for wxRemind wxRemind is a wxPython-based front/back-end for Remind, a powerful calendar and alarm application, and for yeaGTD, a text based application for ‘getting things done’. The display features a calendar and daily event list suitable for visualizing your schedule at a glance, together with a flexible display of your GTD todo [...]

Official Google Blog: Lights, camera, Gmail Last month, we invited you to join the Gmail collaborative video, pull out your video cameras and help us imagine how an email message travels around the world. Two Rubik’s cubes, a few jaunts in a bottle, beautiful sand animation, and one dog’s trip to the Southernmost point of [...]

Robert Love: Those Dang DPCs Clogging the MMCSS Vista’s funky networking performance amid multimedia playback elicited a reply from Microsoft’s own Mark Russinovich: Besides activity by other threads, media playback can also be affected by network activity. When a network packet arrives at [the] system, it triggers a CPU interrupt, which causes the device driver [...]