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Safety tips for handling email attachments and content downloaded from the Internet

Safety tips for handling email attachments and content downloaded from the Internet Safety tips on opening applications

Always use caution when opening (such as by double-clicking) files that come from [...]

quicktime 7.0 contains a security bug where a maliciously crafted Quartz Composer object can leak data to an arbitrary web location.

Apple has released quicktime 7.0.1 which addresses this issue, users sould upgrade.

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Présentation du Mini Partner, boîtier d’extensions spécialement conçu pour le Mac Mini.

“Peu après avoir testé le Mac mini, nous avions discuté avec nos partenaires de Macway des regrets que nous avions. Il n’y avait pas assez de ports Firewire, ni d’USB, et le disque de 2,5 pouces. Forts de ces [...]

Boing Boing: HOWTO give tech in-kind to Red Cross, from techie volunteer
Friday, September 2, 2005

HOWTO give tech in-kind to Red Cross, from techie volunteer

BB pal K7AAY in PDX, OR says,

I’m a Red Cross volunteer techie, and have started speaking with Red Cross in-kind folks to try to open a channel into [...]

Court: no hacking Blizzard games

A three-judge panel from the 8th Circuit of the US Court of Appeals has upheld (PDF) a lower court ruling that bars hacking Blizzard’s online titles. Two programmers, Ross Combs and Rob Crittenden, created an open-source application (BnetD) that emulates Blizzard’s Battle.Net, allowing owners [...]