This is unbelievable. Completely unbelievable. Ian Harris (the guy who wrote the  HARRY_READ_ME.txt?) is discussing with Tim Osborn how to tailor-make an algorithm that will make the data look like desired. How can it be interpreted any other way???

From: Ian Harris <i.harris@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>
To: t.osborn@xxxxxxxxx.xxx
Subject: Re: Hopefully fixed TMP
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 14:50:20 +0100

Hi Tim

I’ve re-run with the same database used for the previous 2006 run (tmp.0705101334.dtb). /cru/cruts/version_3_0/update_top/gridded_finals/data/data.0909041051/
tmp/cru_ts_3_00.1901.2008.tmp.dat.nc.gz Is that any better? If not please can you send the traditional multi-page country plots for me to pore over?

Cheers

Harry

On 3 Sep 2009, at 17:04, Tim Osborn wrote:

Hi Harry and Phil,

the mean level of the “updated-to-2008″ CRU TS 3.0 now looks good,  matching closely with the 1961-1990 means of the earlier CRU TS 3.0  and CRU TS 2.1. Please see the attached PDF of country mean time series, comparing last-year’s CRUTS 3.0 (black, up to 2005) with the most-recent CRU TS 3.0 (pink, up to 2008).

Latest version matches last-year’s version well for the most part, and where differences do occur I can’t say that the new version is any worse than last-year’s version (some may be better). One exception is the hot JJA in Europe in 2003. This is less extreme in the latest version. See attached PNG for a blow-up of France in JJA. I‘m sure some people will use CRU TS 3.0 to look at 2003 in Europe, so we need to be happy with the version we release. Perhaps some hot stations have been dropped as outliers (more than 3 standard deviations from the mean?)?

But I’m not sure if that is the reason, since outlier checking was  already used in last-year’s version, wasn’t it? Does the outlier checking always check +-3 SD from 61-90 mean (or  normal), or does it check +-3 SD from the local mean (30-years centred on the value) which would allow for a gradual warming in both mean and  outlier threshold?

Cheers
Tim

On Wed, September 2, 2009 6:08 pm, Ian Harris wrote:

Tim

When you have the time and/or the inclination, please can you run the new TMP output through your IDL thingummajig? /cru/cruts/version_3_0/update_top/gridded_finals/data/data.0909021348/ tmp/cru_ts_3_00.1901.2008.tmp.dat.nc.gz

Please let me know if you can’t access it. I do appreciate your help!

Cheers

Harry

Es bueno saber que detrás de una marca hay un equipo de personas que respaldan ese nombre. Por gusto propio siempre tengo preferencia por marcas como Asus, Sony, y Nokia… simplemente porque durante el tiempo necesario fueron capaces de entregarme productos de calidad y con un funcionamiento óptimo, bueno, tal vez no siempre, pero la mayoría de las veces…

Hace un tiempo escribi un artículo sobre como usar Rockbox en un Ipod Mini… y fue impresionante como con el mismo hardware era posible reproducir distintos formatos de música, incluso video, siendo que el Ipod Mini tiene pantalla monocromática, no fue hecho para ver video… fue impresionante!…

…lamentablemente con mi celular no he podido hacer algo similar, debe ser por eso que Nokia me va dando placebos para que me deje de pensar en que algun dia le pondré Linux o algo similar a Rockbox a mi móvil…

…creo que por algún tiempo tendré que conformarme con las mejoras que me entrega Nokia, y aunque se que mi teléfono no es de gama alta ni nada por el estilo, la gente de Nokia me tiene convencido que si, dandome la sensación de tener un móvil nuevo cada cierto tiempo, mejorado en rapidez, sonido y muchas cosas mas…

pruebalo tu mismo…

Para actualizar el firmware de nustro nokia 5130 vamos a necesitar de 3 archivos. Primero tendremos que descargar el firmware nuevo para instalarlo al celular, lo puedes descargar aquí, luego descargamos el Phoenix desde acá, esta aplicación nos hará el trabajo mucho mas fácil, y seguido de eso descargamos el Nokia Pc Suite desde el sitio oficial de Nokia.

Luego seguimos los siguientes pasos:

1º Instalar el Phoenix: Se ejecuta el archivo, y se abre una pequeña ventana, haz clic en el boton que parece un “play” para que inicie la instalación.

2º Instalar el Firmware RM-495: durante la instalación, nos pregunta el destino de instalación, hay que cambiarlo por C:\Archivos de programa\Nokia\Phoenix  ES IMPORTANTE QUE HAGAN ESO.

3º Instalen el Nokia PC Suite (si es que no lo tenían instalado) y hagan una copia de seguridad de su teléfono (esto es para preservar la configuración que le hayamos puesto, mensajes, notas, fotos, etc etc etc) y establezcan una contraseña para la tarjeta de memoria. Esto es opcional.

4º Procedemos a abrir el Phoenix, conectamos nuestro celular via USB y seleccionamos el modo PC Suite, vamos a FILE, luego MANAGE CONNECTIONS, clickeamos en NEW, aparece una ventana donde hay que marcar los siguientes casilleros: FLS-4S……. y USB. Haz click en Siguiente, esperar hasta que diga Finished Scanning, siguiente, y luego en el paso 3 seleccionar la opción USB y click en Finalizar.

5º Ahora estamos en MANAGE CONNECTIONS, pero esta vez seleccionamos USB, click en Apply, y luego en Close.

6º Vamos a File, Open Product, y donde dice Type filter:, escriben RM-495, y seleccionan:

7º Nuevamente en el Phoenix, vamos a Flashing, luego Firmware Update. Se abre una ventanita, en la cual tenemos que tocar el botón que tiene los puntos suspensivos “…” Ahí tienen que seleccionar lo siguiente: 0574258 LTA-UA, Latin, BLUE en caso que el celular sea color azul, ó 0574259 LTA-UA, Latin, RED en caso que el celular sea rojo. Click en OK.

8º Ahora aparece la ventanita de Firmware Update, con 2 opciones importantes: Restore User Product y Refurbish. Nosotros vamos a hacer click en Restore User Product en caso que no hayamos hecho un backup del teléfono, o Refurbish para que además de actualizar, resetee el cel, y luego vamos al Nokia PC Suite y restauramos nuestro cel a la configuración que teníamos.

9º Espera pacientemente a que termine y tendrás un Nokia 5130 v6.94 en español.

Espero que te sirva!

Some of the MALE MMO players are using a female character while playing on the game. WHY? Here are some information why male or man love female character

1st - Because if you use female character, it is easy for you to get help to others.

2nd - If you use female character, and you are asking for some items in game, they will help you

3rd - You are girl in disguise (gay)

4th - You got a pervert mind. Cause other MMO’s got nude female character

5th - It is easy for you to dress the female character than to male character

6th – Easy to trust

7th – To level up your Girl friend’s account (^_^)

8th – To fool someone and let him fall in love with yah

9th – 100% you are using someone to SCAM their items or account

10th – Most boy’s doesnt want to stare at their male characters ass for a long period of time. so thats why they create a female character  by DogBeating

11th – I usually only make a girl character for an alt just for fun. by Rosato forum.mmosite.com/list.php

12th – You cannot choose gender because game has default gender in every classes

This is base in-game reality. Don’t deny it BOYS! (^_^) It’s true. There are good and bad reasons and for those who are doing this for bad purpose, there is always a feedback! Men, be aware of someone you are helping with.

Do not trust too much unless you know the person in real life. But still, even if you know him/her trusting too much is the worst trait. But, I do trust too. To Lie is not a key to success. To hide identity is not to protect your self, what are you afraid off if you done nothing wrong? besides, you gained nothing upon telling a lie.

Don’t ever give your account information to anyone if you don’t want headache upon getting your items back. Remember, some support section in game will reply after decades

and there are 2 possibilities when asking to get your items back

-you cannot get your items back. Congratulation!

-you can get it after decades (^_____^)

Thank’s for reading, Anyway if you have any add-ON’s I can edit this article. Add-ONs about “what else are the reasong WHY BOYS LOVE TO CREATE FEMALE CHARACTER…

appears to be possible to enable wifi/n for HTC HD2 phones. see source for the full article

source: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=583638

Last week the news about yet another non-belligerent iPhone worm did the rounds and people responded by saying things like “How silly jailbreaker’s are for not changing their SSH root passwords,” and “It’s only a matter of time until a worm appears that’s not so friendly…” OK, yes, geeky people said those things. Normals will likely never know that jailbreaking is something you can do to a phone.

Well, the predictions of gloom have proven true. Over the last few days, and reported by The Mac Observer, a new worm has been identified. This one, (so-far limited to iPhone owners in the Netherlands), takes advantage of the exact same SSH-exploit as the previous worm. Once on a user’s iPhone, it circumvents Mobile Safari’s anti-phishing technology to present a spoof of a popular banking website. Users are tricked into handing over their online banking authentication details. The worm spreads from iPhone to iPhone, but is limited to jailbroken handsets connected to the same Wi-Fi network.

Apple has weighed-in with its own sage wisdom and advice on the matter. Speaking to The Loop’s Jim Dalrymple, Apple spokesperson Natalie Harrison said:

The worm affects only a very specific set of iPhone users who have jail broken their iPhones and hacked it with unauthorized software. As we’ve said before, the vast majority of customers do not jailbreak their iPhones, and for good reason. These hacks not only violate the warranty, they will also cause the iPhone to become unstable and not work reliably.

If you live in the Netherlands and have jailbroken your iPhone and installed SSH, you need to change the default password to protect yourself from this particular exploit. Just don’t think you’ll be safe — Apple might keep the iPhone platform locked-down tight, but you can’t argue against the obvious security advantages of doing so. To date, there have been four confirmed worms “in the wild” on jailbroken iPhones. How many confirmed worms have appeared in the wild that affect non-jailbroken iPhones? There you have it.

The Real Question Is…

But the real question, as I see it, is this; who jailbreaks any more? I mean, really… who? Why? The single biggest reason people originally went to the trouble of jailbreaking their iPhones was due to frustration at the lack of native apps. (Back in the early days of iPhone ownership, and before the app store existed, only Apple’s own home-grown apps were locally installed on the device. Every third-party apps ran inside Mobile Safari and, therefore, required access to the Internet.) I did a lot of travel back then, usually by air and train, so I didn’t always have a reliable Internet connection; this rendered most of my web apps useless. That annoyed me, and I very nearly did the whole jailbreaking thing just so I could install applications locally that would work irrespective of an active Internet connection. (Ultimately I wussed-out, too afraid I’d permanently mess-up my precious — and expensive — iPhone.)

But that was then, and times have changed.. What other compelling reasons were there to void Apple’s iPhone warranty? MMS, video recording, exchange server support, multitasking and Copy & Paste were the “most missed” features. Today we have more apps than you can shake an iPhone at. We have MMS and video recording, exchange support and copy & paste.

The only thing missing is “true” multitasking, but for the vast majority of iPhone owners (for whom multitasking is another way of saying “I want instant messaging!”), Apple’s Push Notification Service does a decent job of balancing productive multitasking with preserving battery life.

So… why jailbreak? Is it a form of protest against Apple’s broken application approval process? Is it because you absolutely must replace the default icons with something far less classy? Perhaps you can’t live without tethering? Tell us in the comments the (few) remaining reasons for jailbreaking an iPhone.

Just please don’t say it’s for geek cred… I might cry!

This is not just any Sony Hackintosh. This is a 2007 Sony Vaio UX that has been heavily modded and quad boots into Windows 7, XP, Vista, and Mac OSX. It has been fitted with a new processor and a bigger HD. Check out the specs and more of the information at Gizmodo.

All you fans of OSen that Apple doesn’t provide iTunes for — GNU/Linux, *BSD, etc. — may find it annoying that there’s no real way to restore or jailbreak your shiny new iPhone or iPod Touch besides dual-booting or finding a compatible machine, huh?

Firstly, this is kinda what you have to expect after buying an Apple device   If it doesn’t fit into the Apple World™, you’d better believe that a whole host of problems will rise up.  If you’re a nice local IT guy like me though, you may wish to help liberate the souls of hapless iFollowers partially, and assist them in the jailbreaking of their devices.

As it turns out, virtualization software can help.  Alas, VMware Workstation does not work, and I haven’t tried QEMU.  The problem with VMware seems to be that iTunes doesn’t see the iPod at one critical step, and eventually gives up looking, handing you an error (usually 1611).  VirtualBox works great, though it requires a bit of manual work.  You will, sadly, need Sun’s Personal Use and Evalutation License (PUEL) version of VirtualBox, which is not Free Software — the Open Source Edition (OSE) does not support USB last I checked.  To clarify, VirtualBox PUEL is free in price, but not open-source free as in freedom.

This tutorial should work for all OSen capable of USB 2.0 and USB-enabled VirtualBox, and the jailbreaking section should work for the iPod Touch 1G/2G, and the iPhone 1G/2G/3G/3GS.  I don’t think the restore process will let you downgrade firmware, though, so you should have firmware 3.0.1 or lower.  We will be using redsn0w 0.8  to jailbreak.  This app works better in Windoze anyways; it often fails on GNU/Linux even though that OS is also supported.

BY USING THIS GUIDE YOU AGREE THAT I AM NOT TO BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR DAMANGES, LOSS OF FUNCTION, etc. etc etc…..  Basically, don’t be a douche.  I don’t think it’s even possible to screw up your iPod/iPhone with this; Apple actually did a good job at least in ensuring there’s pretty much always a way to restore if things go awry.  Losing your data will definitely happen if you restore, though — that’s part of what the restore does — so back up.  The jailbreaking shouldn’t cost you your data, but being safe can’t hurt.

Now that all that crap is over with, go ahead and grab VirtualBox PUEL, and make your virtual machine.  The OS I used is Windows XP Pro SP3, others may or may not work.  I wouldn’t advise a 64-bit Windows copy (the LibUsb-Win32 drivers are 32-bit, and this complicates matters), and XP is probably overall your best bet.  Make sure to enable USB in the settings, and install the OS.  You may also need to have the guest OS able to get to the Internet.

Once you have the VM up and running (I installed the guest additions, you may not need them), get the LibUsb-Win32 drivers and install them.  I’m not sure why exactly they are necessary, but they seem to in general make this whole process much smoother and more fail-proof.  Here they are, make sure to get the latest .exe file.  Reboot after installation.

Next, you need iTunes.  I’m not sure if later versions don’t work, but I would really recommend version 8.2.0, as I’ve had the most success with it.  You can find a downloadable copy here.

And last, you need the actual firmware you’re going to install.  I won’t link it, as the legality is somewhat questionable (as is everything with Apple), but you should be able to use Google to find a firmware that works with your model iPod/iPhone.  Remember, the .ipsw file you need is different for every model of iPod — one for the 2G iPhone, one for the 2G iPod, one for the 1G iPod, etc. etc.  I recommend firmware 3.0 for iPods, and 3.0.1 for iPhones (fixes an SMS exploit).  3.1 and later have nice features, but protect against the jailbreak hack we will use later.  If you’re too comfortable bending over for Steve Jobs, then you can go right for the latest firmware (3.1.2 at the time of writing)   There ARE exploits for 3.1+, blackra1n seems to be the one everyone goes to, but they have some shortcomings.  Google for more info, I won’t get into it here.  If you do use 3.1+, you may need a later version of iTunes; I’m not sure.

Once all this is acquired, and you’ve rebooted your VM again, don’t let iTunes start.  The first thing to do is open up a command prompt and cd to “C:\Program Files\LibUsb-Win32\bin”, or wherever else you installed that package.  Once there, run “install-filter.exe -i”.  There should be no output from the command.

Next, we get the iPod/iPhone ready.  Plug it in and turn it completely off — it’s okay if iTunes starts up in a fuss once it sees the connection.  We are now going to enter DFU mode, which is an even lower-level version of the Recovery mode, and works better sometimes.  Follow these instructions carefully.  There are lots of differing instructions online, but I find these steps to work the best — if they don’t, Google for DFU mode and try other methods.  If, after many retries, you can’t get in DFU mode, then you can try in Recovery mode, which may work.  I believe you get in Recovery mode by plugging in the device to the PC and holding down the Home button for a while until you see an image depicting a connection to iTunes.  Here are the DFU instructions, though:

0.) Ensure your iPod/iPhone is connected to the computer via your USB cable, and completely powered off.

1.) Press in and hold down the power switch for about three seconds, until a tiny bit after you see the silver Apple logo.  Once you see that, also start holding in the Home button, or whatever that button’s name is on the front of the device.  After a little while, the device should completely power off again.  If you see the image depicting connecting an iPod to iTunes, all is not lost, although this usually works better if you start holding the Home button earlier so that you never see that screen before the device shuts down.

2.) Now that the device is off again, keep holding the power switch and the Home button for about a full second, and then switch to holding just the Home button.  If you see the Apple logo again, you held down the power button too long, and you’ll have to start over.  If the screen stays  completely off, that’s good — keep holding down that Home button for a good 15-20 seconds, and then you can release; you should be in DFU mode.  You can verify this by running the ‘lsusb’ program in your chosen bare-metal OS, or whatever equivalent function it offers to show all USB devices plugged in, or by looking in the Devices -> USB Devices section of VirtualBox’s menu (that does not refresh automatically, you have to keep opening the menu every few seconds to refresh).  Then, you may stop holding down the Home button.

If anything goes wrong during this sequence, start all over.  If you want out of DFU mode, hold down the power and Home buttons for a bit and the device should be off (no real detectable difference), so then you can power it on again — don’t worry, you can’t get stuck in DFU mode!

Now you can give the virtual machine the iPod/iPhone — use Devices -> USB Devices to check your device.  The VM may immediately drop it again, just go back in and check it again.

iTunes will detect the device now.  Remember throughout this guide, usually when iTunes shows a slim progress bar that keeps going through, it’s looking for the device or waiting for it to be unchecked/rechecked in Devices -> USB Devices.  It may do this now, in which case you should check the iPod/iPhone in USB Devices if it isn’t checked, and if it is, uncheck and then recheck.

iTunes should now complain that the device is in recovery mode, and needs to be restored.  That’s what we want.  Hold down the left Shift key and click the Restore button in iTunes.  Now, choose the .ipsw firmware file you downloaded before.  This is why I specified downloading the firmware manually — if you just click the Restore button, iTunes will download and install the very latest firmware, which is likely not what you want if you’re going to jailbreak.  Even if you aren’t, I recommend the manual method.

Go ahead and feed it the .ipsw.  After extracting it, iTunes will do some preparation, and then show another floating progress bar most likely.  Uncheck the iPod in the VM menu, wait a second, and it should reappear in the menu (in Recovery mode this time, not DFU).  Check it again, and iTunes will proceed.  At this point, you should start to get feedback on the iPod/iPhone.

After some more work, iTunes will again stall at “Preparing iPod for restore…”, and the iPod should disconnect from the VM.  Go ahead and reconnect it.  It will be listed as not in Recovery mode anymore.  The floating bar will persist for a while — DON’T disconnect and reconnect the device from the VM, as I suggested before, in this case!  From here on, remember: when the iPod/iPhone has a slowly filling progress bar on its display, don’t tamper with the VM connection.  The progress bar should switch back to a normal bar shortly.

Sit back and relax, there won’t be any need for user interaction for a while.  Sooner or later, iTunes will again show a floating progress bar while it verifies the iPod software.  Still, don’t disconnect — there’s still a progress bar on the device, right?  Right.

If you got an error around the 1600s during this process, you likely failed to reconnect/disconnect/whateverconnect the device when iTunes wanted you to.  Try again.  If you get a low error number like 9 or 2, you likely disconnected or such when iTunes was busy working on the iPhone/iPod — don’t worry, just try again.

The iPod will disconnect for quite a while.  When it becomes ready again, you should have a newly restored iPod/iPhone!  Congratulations   If you want to truly make this device yours, and jailbreak it, keep reading.

Okay, jailbreak time.  Google around for a tool called redsn0w, and download it.  This guide was written for version 0.8 — if later versions come out, they may or may not work.

We need to again enter DFU mode.  This time, it’s mandatory.  Follow the above instructions to get in DFU mode, and connect the device to the virtual machine using its menu.  Close iTunes, and start redsn0w.  Feed it the same .ipsw firmware you have on your iPod/iPhone.  Click next, and it will patch the firmware.  You will be asked what to install for a package manager on the jailbroken device (I recommend Cydia only; Icy is faster and slicker but now unmaintained and is also more bug-prone in my experience).

You will be given instructions now by redsn0w on entering DFU mode.  Since we already did that, just click through them without doing anything to your device, waiting when it forces you to wait.  Make sure your iPod/iPhone is connected to the VM in the VM menu, and is in DFU mode!  Once redsn0w sees your device, it will skip through the rest of the instructions and begin.

Throughout the jailbreak process, redsn0w will every now and again stall on “Waiting for reboot…”.  This is your cue to reconnect the iPod/iPhone in VirtualBox’s menu if it got disconnected, or if it is still connected there, disconnect and reconnect.

Congratulations on your squeaky-clean jailbroken iPhone or iPod   Now go, and use it to show off the power of a world full of enterprising hackers!  The less Winblows is necessary, the better

Feel free to comment with questions, troubles, — or hey, even thank yous if I helped you out; they are much appreciated

Wordcamp is a two-day event taking place in Kilkenny from 6th-7th March 2009. It’ll take in an introduction to blogging, how to improve your blog and the use of WordPress, and some more advanced hacking of WordPress. Tickets are €40 for both days, available now

Wordcamp Ireland

A first release candidate for the OWASP Top 10 2010 was released a while ago. In my view the best enhancement is the new design of document.

As I worked on some short executive summaries for my company, I always struggled how to get a lot of information in the shortest form possible. The new OWASP Top10 PDF design is kind of perfect for this matter.

Document (Download as PDF):

Kullanımı:

* Tüm dosyaları valve klasörüne çıkartın ve programı çalıştırın.
* [ Browse ] tuşuna basarak atavratwall.sys dosyasını seçin.
* [ Register Service ] tuşuna basın wall hazırlansın.
* [ Start Service ] tuşuna basın.
* Sxe’yi açın ve oyununuza girin.

Not: Tüm Sxe Sürümlerinde Çalışır.
Not2: SADECE CS 1.6 PATCH v26′larda ÇALIŞIR.
Not3: Bu zaten piyasada olan bi wallHack programının eksiklikleri giderilmiş versiyonudur.

sXe 8.2′ye uyarlanmıştır.

INDIR

ÇALIŞMAZSA

INDIR

Şifre : www.netbilgini.org

NOD32 ile taranmıştır.

Alternatif olarak virustotal taraması buyrun : Virustotal. MD5: 0f901322d1d2d834b44a9285b9b9e565 Hacktool.Rootkit Trojan.Rootkit.Gen Rootkit.18687

Quando lo dicevano Margherita Hack, Antonio Di Pietro, Beppe Grillo, il quotidiano Il Fatto e molti, moltissimi altri ancora, tutti venivano tacciati di populismo, antipolitica, demagogia e accusati di non rispettare le istituzioni e la massima magistratura della Repubblica. Ora è il Presidente emerito della Repubblica, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, che torna sull’argomento:

“Io non do consigli a nessuno, meno che mai a chi mi ha succeduto al Quirinale. Ma il capo dello Stato, tra i suoi poteri, ha quello della promulgazione. Se una legge non va non si firma. E non si deve usare come argomento che giustifica sempre e comunque la promulgazione che tanto, se il Parlamento riapprova la legge respinta la prima volta, il presidente è poi costretto a firmarla. Intanto non si promulghi la legge in prima lettura: la Costituzione prevede espressamente questa prerogativa presidenziale. La si usi: è un modo per lanciare un segnale forte, a chi vuole alterare le regole, al Parlamento e all’opinione pubblica”.

Una vera e propria critica, durissima anche se garbata, all’attuale Presidente della Repubblica Giorgio Napolitano, che meno di due mesi fa’, a un cittadino che gli aveva chiesto a proposito del c.d. scudo fiscale: “Presidente non firmi, lo faccia per le persone oneste”, cosi’ rispondeva:

“Non firmare non significa niente. Nella Costituzione c’è scritto che il presidente promulga le leggi. Se non firmo oggi il Parlamento vota un’altra volta la stessa legge ed è scritto che a quel punto io sono obbligato a firmare. Questo voi non lo sapete? Se mi dite non firmare, non significa niente”

Tra le leggi controverse firmate dal Presidente Napolitano, oltre allo scudo fiscale ricordiamo il c.d. lodo Alfano, la legge che metteva Silvio Berlusconi al di sopra della legge, puntualmente bocciata dalla Corte Costituzionale.

Progrmaın Download Linki

Looks like another hack has hit jail-broken iPhones in Europe again. This time, the worm attacks “jail-broken” phones and redirects ING bank’s customers to a lookalike site with a log-in screen. Currently the Netherland folks who are using their iPhones for internet banking with Dutch online bank are the ones being affected.

The new worm is more serious than the first because it can behave like a botnet, warns F-Secure, and allows the hacker to remotely control and access the phone. In addition, all this can be spread via WiFi and affect other iPhones connected to an open WiFi network.

[via BBC]

While we have our fun ethically hacking, its very easy to forget that sometimes our ideas could be used with malicious goals. Take for instance SparkFun’s BlueSMiRF – the device’s original intention is simply to act as a wireless serial cable replacement. After hackers discovered several PIN pads use a serial interface, they put one and one together to steal several hundreds of people’s personal bank accounts.

It seems SparkFun is getting a lot of heat lately, but we’re glad they stand up and address these issues. You can check out the original news clipping here.

Gene günlerden PAZARTESİ sıkıcı bir ders havası var okulumda her zaman kii gibi ekiyorum eve geliyorum .. Ne yapsam ne etsem diye düşünürken bir film izliyeyim dedim netten 2o12′ yi buldum dolmasını beklıyorum .  Yazmışım googleme ekşi sözlük diye girmişim ekşi sözlüğüme cirit atıyorum resmen sitede . Gözüme ” fbi ve cia ajanlarına kerhanede yumurtalı saldırı ” diye bişiy çarptı açtım meraklan okuyorum kii okuduğumun sonuna gelene kadar ağzım kulaklarıma vardı .. (: Sizlede paylaşmak istedim ..

Hujung minggu lepas aku banyak buang masa surfing internet.. makan dan tido. Cuaca di luar hujan renyai-renyai. Sebenarnya aku buang masa aku di 2 buah portal yang saling menjahanamkan sesama sendiri; iaitu tbd.com | The Hollow Within dari Malaysia dan jugak Jasakom Community dari Indonesia.

Dua kelompok online komuniti saling menggodam antara satu sama lain; deface website dan bla bla bla. 2 komuniti ini saling mendakwa mereka mempunyai pasukan hacker yang handal. Aku yang buta kayu bab I.T ni pun terus lah membaca topik-topik dalam kedua kelompok online komuniti nusantara ni. Maki hamun dah jadi lumrah. Kalau sini kena deface sana kena maki; kalau sana kena deface, sini pulak kena maki.. lumayan dan gratis dong… hahaha. Kedua-dua kelompok hacker muda ni memang berbakat dan berintelek. Di Jasakom Community, aku lihat kelompok mereka begitu beria mau mendeface maybank2u.com; aku tersenyum sinis dalam hati aku berkata… lantak kau lah labu.

Pada 2007, teruja.com pernah kena defaced, beberapa tahun sebelumnya pada 2003 kalau tak silap, kedahonline kena defaced. Dalam 2009 ni aje ada sejumlah website Malaysia yang jadi mangsa terutama di kemuncak kempen sweeping malingsia, buluh runcing Indon.

Kepada semua Hackers / defacers tak kira di Malaysia mahupun indon; ni aku yang buta kayu bab I.T mengakhiri entri kali ini dengan satu Manifesto..

This is our world now. The world of the electron and the switch; the beauty of the baud. We exist without nationality, skin color, or religious bias. You wage wars, murder, cheat, lie to us and try to make us believe it’s for our own good, yet we’re the criminals. Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. I am a hacker, and this is my manifesto. You may stop me, but you can’t stop us all.”

Amacam? gerun tak? aku yang buta kayu bab I.T publish satu manifesto hacker yang aku extract dari filem Hacker (1995).

Oh yea.. satu lagi pesanan aku yang buta kayu bab I.T ni kepada semua “hacker” .. grow up la bhai, deface tu mainan newbie… true hacker / cracker takkan mendabik dada dan mengaku hacker kalau setakat deface dan delete root. Wokay? Grow up!

p/s : aku sengaja tak buat link ke kedua portal berkenaan; jika mahu membaca apa yang ada dalam kedua-dua portal berkenaan, lu orang google jek berdasarkan nama portal yang aku taip tu.

salud!

Hey Windows users: what would you risk for a mouse of such mystical persuasions that it has the word “magic” right in the product name? How about $69 for the mouse followed by a few sleepless nights after installing a .exe found in the murky shallows of the internet? That’s what it’ll take to install some hacked drivers, said to enable Apple’s Magic Mouse gestures, on your Windows rig. The drivers were extracted from the latest Bluetooth update targeting Mac owners running Windows under Boot Camp, but now there’s nothing stopping you from trying them too. Let us know how this dark elixir works out in the comments below.

Needless to say, the biggest news story in the world of global warming in the past week has been the hacking of the East Anglia Climate Research Unit. When the news first broke, the big headline was an email by Phil Jones from 1999 and one damaging line:

“I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline.”

This line has prompted much debate, with some on the right claiming this is fraud or that it’s proof the global warming alarmists are adding fake data or whatever. This line of thought has been attacked, with Real Climate leading the way:

The paper in question is the Mann, Bradley and Hughes (1998) Nature paper on the original multiproxy temperature reconstruction, and the ‘trick’ is just to plot the instrumental records along with reconstruction so that the context of the recent warming is clear. Scientists often use the term “trick” to refer to a “a good way to deal with a problem”, rather than something that is “secret”, and so there is nothing problematic in this at all. As for the ‘decline’, it is well known that Keith Briffa’s maximum latewood tree ring density proxy diverges from the temperature records after 1960 (this is more commonly known as the “divergence problem”–see e.g. the recent discussion in this paper) and has been discussed in the literature since Briffa et al in Nature in 1998 (Nature, 391, 678-682). Those authors have always recommend not using the post 1960 part of their reconstruction, and so while ‘hiding’ is probably a poor choice of words (since it is ‘hidden’ in plain sight), not using the data in the plot is completely appropriate, as is further research to understand why this happens.

Others have said it’s just a way to make the data look pretty, or that “trick” is just the natural jargon. Needless to say, the truth is a bit more complicated.

Here’s the gist of it in a simplified manner (a more scientific explanation can be found here. You discover that tree ring length corresponds fairly well with temperature. In other words, you can measure tree ring width, plug it into some equation, and get an average temperature for that year. Now you can keep doing this, going back a couple thousand years, and recreate the temperature profile throughout that time. Hooray!

Only one problem. When you do it for the most recent 30 years or so, you find that the temperature you get out of the tree rings is lower than the actual measured temperature. In other words, tree ring length doesn’t keep increasing with increasing temperature, but instead starts to decrease. So now, your temperature profile starts to curve downward in the 20th century instead of still going up. Alas and alack! What to do?

Well, just cut out the tree ring data at the end and replace it with the actual temperature data. What’s wrong with that? It’s more accurate, right? We should always use the most accurate data, correct? So we use the “trick” of splicing in real data with tree rings in order to “hide the decline” that shows up erroneously with the tree ring data. Perfectly legitimate, right?

No. What happens if you don’t do that? If you don’t do it, then one can plainly see the divergence between tree ring width and temperatures. One can plainly see that the calibration (ie, equation used to convert tree ring width to temperatures) does not hold for the entire range of temperature data you wish to study.

And why is that important? Because some stupid, amateur scientist might look at it and say, “Hey, wait a minute! If your tree ring reconstruction can’t possibly find high temperatures, how do you know there weren’t high temperatures in the past? Maybe there were high temperatures, but the trees didn’t grow that well, just like what’s happening now. So this reconstruction doesn’t actually tell us anything about past temperatures!”

To which the intelligent, establishment scientist replies: “Duh, of course that’s not true. If it were, then we couldn’t scare the public into giving us bazillions in funding.”

And so to avoid the possibility of people correctly recognizing the faults of bristlecone pine reconstructions, an additional data set is included to hide the faults.

That is why it’s dishonest. And while RealClimate claims that everyone knows about this already, the fact is that they not everyone knew about this back then (the email is dated from 1999). This was an attempt to hide the fact that their reconstruction was not robust, and to hide the inevitable conclusion that they couldn’t prove that the MWP did not exist.

Is it fraud? Probably not. Some clues to what they did were probably buried in the fine print. They weren’t completely hiding it (“hiding it in plain site”, as RC calls it, is probably more accurate). But it’s still very, very unethical. Why? Because even though the truth is still available, it’s hiding one of the most important pieces of information possible from the bristlecone pines: the fact that they probably can’t detect warm periods in the past even if they did occur. It’s why they aren’t usually used in reconstructions nowadays.

This email is not a shocking revelation. We’ve known about this for years. However, it does suggest that the original hockey stick authors were aware of what they were doing by “hiding the decline”. It’s just more proof that the politics of global warming have overrun the science.

So all things considered, this particular email is not all that exciting in the overall scheme. What’s more important is the bullying and disrupting of the peer review process. I’m still reading up on all of this, so maybe that’s a post for another time. In the mean time, I’ll direct you to Bishop Hill, who is one of the best writers on chronicling the global warming saga. If you’ve never read his post on Caspar and the Jesus paper, I strongly suggest it. It shows just how corrupted the scientific process has become for global warming.