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Friday, October 18th, 2013

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    6:37a
    Identifying Cell Phones Through Sensor Imperfections

    There seems to be a bunch of research into uniquely identifying cell phones through unique analog characteristics of the various embedded sensors. These sorts of things could replace cookies as surveillance tools.

    Slashdot and MetaFilter threads.

    12:03p
    D-Link Router Backdoor

    Several versions of D-Link router firmware contain a backdoor. Just set the browser's user agent string to "xmlset_roodkcableoj28840ybtide," and you're in. (Hint, remove the number and read it backwards.)

    It was probably put there for debugging purposes, but has all sorts of applications for surveillance.

    Good article on the subject.

    4:10p
    Friday Squid Blogging: Fiona Apple Wears a Squid as a Hat in New Video

    Even I think this is weird.

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