Security Briefing: October 10th

Apparently interning at Liquidmatrix just isn’t interesting enough.

Back with a pile of friday news for you, hope you’re looking forward to Thanksgiving as much as I am – sorry Americans, we need to have it early because it’s already so snowy out there that the harvest is freezing.

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And now, the news…

1. Kids need to agree to 120+ pages of EULAs in order to watch BluRay Sleeping Beauty Thanks to Zach for that one.
2. Stepto talks about his SecTor 2008 experience And yes, I got a mention in the blog. I’m going to be twitter followed by the exact opposite of a horde of XBox Live gamers.
3. An interesting post and response on the psychology of access control. This is exactly the sort of renaissance work that I was talking about on Wednesday.
4. Wired’s Threat Level reports: NSA Snooped on Innocent Americans’ Private Calls from Iraq, Former Operators Charge – Um. Duh. Of course.
5. Metasploit 3.2 includes new license – expect an olde skule fork bomb. Thanks Clint

And a trio from the nice folks over at El Reg…

6. Municipal broadband Illegal? Nope.
7. Get your Opera updates.
8. Apparently, graphics cards *REALLY* aren’t just for gamers anymore.

And for people who’ve mistaken this for a celebrity tracking weblog, here’s a little something for you.

9. Lisa Kudrow commits an act of comedy and yet I still don’t want to buy a Lexus.
10. There is no number 10.

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