Section: News , Computers , Security , Gadgets / Other , Transportation
Clear , a company that is in existence to cater to frequent travelers who are willing to give up quite a bit of personal information and pay $100 per year to be able to fast pass those long security lines recently had a nice security scare. One that we can only hope will teach them a good lesson in security.
Clear had recently reported a laptop stolen at the San Francisco Airport, what sounds like a common occurrence in today’s world where it seems just about everyone has a laptop, except this one in particular had the personal information for 33,000 applicants and to make matters worse, the data was not in any way encrypted.
Now the story does have a happy ending in this case, because it appears that the data was never really in the hands of anyone bad. The laptop was originally reported stolen on July 26 and was reported found about a week later. Sadly they are not even sure ...
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Blip Festival 2008 From: feeds.boingboing.net Post Date: 2008-11-19 15:23:31
Blip Festival 2008, a celebration of low-res visuals and chipmusic, hits New York City on December 4. Brandon Boyer has the details and a promo video over at Boing Boing Offworld! Blip Festival 2008: The Promo...... more
Boing Boing Gadgets reader Tucker Cummings bought the Bandai Gun O’Clock and reviewed it for us! He loves it as a novelty, but apparently as an alarm clock it, er, misses the mark. From Boing Boing Gadgets:
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Like many of the other Motorola handsets out there the Moto L7 has added a new shade to its makeup case, hot pink. The L7 launched on Cingular at the end of January. As a reminder, it runs iTunes with quad-band GSM, sports a 262k color TFT display, Bluetooth, and microSD slot for storing music. The pink L7 will be $199.99 on Cingular with a new service 2-year contract.
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This week we’re working hard to keep up with E3. While things here are not as huge as last year, the show got hot and exciting very quickly. The big three ( Sony , Microsoft , and Nintendo ) have had their press conferences and announced the new games, system changes, new functionality, and accessories, now it is our turn to give you a taste of our mind. This podcast was once again sponsored by GoDaddy.com . Head over there and get 10% off any domain or hosting order ... more
AOL is close to unveiling a VoIP service, based on its AIM instant messenger, that would give any AIM user a local phone number for free. AIM Phoneline, would only allow for incoming calls from any phone, still cheaper than Skype which currently charges about $4 a month. AIM Phoneline Unlimited, will cost $14.95 a month for calls to all local and long-distance numbers and 30 foreign countries. Calls must be made with a headset plugged into a computer and logged onto AIM through a broadband c... more
Skype has gone universal, on Macs that is. Version 1.4.0.49 is the first Universal build of Skype meaning Skype now runs natively on both Intel- and PowerPC-based Mac computers, boosting the performance of Skype running on Intel Macs. Welcome to the fam, and quit asking, “What are Intel chips doing in these Macs.”
1.4.0.49 also includes support for web presence, which allows you to showcase your online status on the web or in an email signature.
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