Daily Reading from December 26, 2007

26 Dec 2007

Links to what I’ve been reading recently.

IBM Poopheads say LAMP Users Need to "grow up" —
Solar Powered Wireless Security Camera - DIY Project —
WARNING: Google’s GMail security failure leaves my business sabotaged — How a csrf hole in gmail allowed an attacker to hijack domain names.
QuestionAnswer — A tool for organizing audience questions from conference backchannels. Might be useful in a barcamp setting.
Google, Security by Obscurity, etc.
The lowest common denominator of speech — "Martin Stabe points to another legal story that is getting too little coverage here, with links to a news story and a FindLaw analysis about a New York court refusing to protect an American author from a UK “libel tourism” …"
Collapse: How Startups Choose to Fail or Succeed — "Jared Diamond's new book, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, provides a simple framework of five forces that lead to collapse: environmental damage and population growth, climate change, hostile neighbors, weakened trade partners and failure to solve societal …"

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