IKEA’s lawyers are demanding that fan site IKEAhackers.Net change their name, because the site is advertising supported and IKEA refuses to let anyone make money with their name or logo.
Coverage here, here, here.
Since the IKEAhackers blog is unlikely to be able to stay online without advertising revenue, IKEA is in the position of trying to kill a fan group website that was actually driving business towards them. Brilliant!
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Normally, when you join a web forum, the proprietors will validate any email address you provide to them.
This is a pretty simple process; you just send an email to the address, containing a unique link to your web forum, and wait for someone to connect to it. When they do, you know that the person at that address is indeed someone who wants to participate in your forum. Code to do this is easily found on the web, you don’t have to write it yourself.
But apparently Facebook doesn’t bother with that sort of labor and time saving automation, they just let anybody use any old address, or something.
Yesterday, in the wee hours of the morning, someone using the name “Autumn Brooks” signed up for Facebook using my gmail address. In short order this fictitious person got 52 people to “friend” him. Only three people out of 55 smelled the obvious rat.
Now, I don’t know what this person’s game plan is or was. I mean, obviously, the intention was criminal, since my email was abused, but I don’t know how they expected to profit.
What I do know, from the Facebook-generated email that’s been POURING into my mailbox ever since (making it difficult for me to find and respond to real email in a timely fashion) is that “Autumn Brooks” was seeking out people in distress. Men struggling to raise kids alone, lonely for some adult female companionship. Teenage cutters looking for someone to talk to. Vulnerable people, people in emotional distress.
Yesterday afternoon I requested Facebook do something about this. I have yet to receive a response… maybe this is all business as usual in Facebook-land?
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Adding “peer reviewed” doesn’t help as much as you’d think. Try it for yourself.
John Hawks is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and works at the junction of modern genetic analysis and classical human archeology. He has a blog.
Fum (Smoke) & Gebra (Frost), the Internet’s favorite Cat and Owl, as animated .GIFs.
The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea
In a beautiful pea-green boat,
They took some honey, and plenty of money,
Wrapped up in a five-pound note.
The Owl looked up to the stars above,
And sang to a small guitar,
“O lovely Pussy! O Pussy, my love,
What a beautiful Pussy you are,
— Edward Lear (1812–1888)
There’s an archive of Fum and Gebra, but unfortunately Fum died of FUS last year. Gebra has a new friend, though, and a Facebook page.
I’ve been subjected to a fair bit of hysteria about the heartbleed vulnerability in OpenSSL. While it’s admittedly a severe problem, I can’t see much use in all the frothing Y2K-esque fearmongering (although it’s funny when Randall does it).
But honestly, I’ve been looking forward to Theo’s take on this, and he did not disappoint. You never doubt where Theo stands!
OpenSSL has exploit mitigation countermeasures to make sure it’s exploitable. — Ted Unangst
As the various cert vendors I deal with have been telling me all morning (can you stop emailing me now, guys, please?) it’s time to patch the vulnerable webservers, get new certs and move on.
IF YOU DID NOT UNDERSTAND ANY OF THE ABOVE, here’s what you do: Test each site you use (like, for example, mail.google.com or www.yahoo.com) using Filippo Valsorda’s tester. Once ALL the sites you use are patched, change ALL your passwords on ALL websites you use. Don’t change your password on a site that’s not patched – don’t even log in on a site that’s not patched! That will just increase the chances you will be hacked. Don’t assume that because your site is OK now, that you don’t need to change your password – the big boys (Yahoo comes to mind) were vulnerable for quite a while before they patched, but they test out fine now.
Facebook has followed up their 2011 release of their PHP Virtual Machine (HHVM, aka HipHop) by releasing Hack, an HHVM-compatible statically typing version of PHP.
I like PHP (mostly because it’s an extremely rapid development language for the web, and also because academic Java snobs hate it so passionately) but static typing should be a fantastic improvement.
Cal Lee’s discussion of the rise and fall of Gopher, and his refutation of simplistic explanations for the dominance of HTTP, is a good read. But it’s more than a paragraph long and hasn’t any pictures, so it won’t appeal to the average web denizen.
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The fine folks at Belgium’s Museum of Old Techniques in Grimsbergen have got some nice photo series online.
Here’s some bronze casting, a shoeing shed for gigantic draft horses, and a charming series of tiny bakehouses. Put your mouse over the picture if you want the slide show to stop so you can study one, move your mouse off to the side to resume.
This excellent one shows how an iron tyre is shrunk onto a wooden wheel. The same technique was used on ancient and medieval shield rims, Celtic chariots, and the quintessentially American Conestoga wagon.
They’re preserving some old mills, too – including at least one with an undershot wheel and a horse mill of uncertain function.
Heather pointed me to Andrew Hoyer’s web page, which is full of clever web programming tricks. I found the build log for the blob particularly interesting.
Hopefully Mr. Hoyer won’t mind my embedding his work here. Grab an eyeball and drag it around! The real version is much better because the icons aren’t overscale.
Last week Heather sent me a link to Alex Marchant’s graph comparing lines of code in the Healthcare.gov site with other popular software and sites. Go see it, it’s a hoot.
Reagan famously said government can’t do anything right, and everyone elected since then seems determined to prove it. There’s something quintessentially American about purposely electing people who say the job can’t be done… no, wait. Not “quintessentially”… that other word… quixotically? Something like that. Tea partiers take note.
Anyway, when I tell anyone involved professionally with computer science that the Obama administration entrusted the building of the Health Care Exchange website to a raft of consultants, and the budget ran to more than $88 million (how much more, nobody seems to quite know!) none of them are at all surprised that the system doesn’t work and is laughably poorly constructed. Of course it won’t work if you don’t hire real experts into full-time, permanent positions to build and support it.
Currently it appears that we’re going to blame Canada for this debacle. And you do have to wonder what brilliant management consultant (I have heard the name Booz Allen whispered, but not confirmed) decided to hire CGI, who also failed to build a working healthcare system for Ontario, Canada last year. I mean, Canada’s single-payor! If a consultancy can’t handle a simple, already working system like Canada’s, how are they going to manage implementing the Heritage-foundation designed Affordable Care Act?
