Fake it until it works Dept. :

Some time ago I was asked how reddit.com grew so
rapidly in its' membership. Apart from becoming
the darling of the college set, I had no response.

Well, it seems that there was a little tomfoolery afoot :

MakeeUppeeePeople

See there was a reason I had no good answer !

Modern Miscellany

Here are a few items of interest from the ever engaging word of technology :


WIN RT FAQ!

WIN 8 is leaking already....

When new products get wierd.

Google alarmed by censorship. How do you define that ?

We Gotcha Captcha !

All the news that's been fit to read ;-)

Boot 2 Gecko / HTML5 Event

One of our members told us about this event.
 It seems a worthwhile and enlightening pastime.

http://www.sfhtml5.org/events/61409842/

Tuesday, June 26, 2012
6:30 PM

About the Talk

SFHTML5 is excited to welcome back Rob Hawkes (@robhawkes) to talk about Mozilla's Boot to Gecko project that aims to revolutionise the way we develop for mobile devices. He'll highlight the key technologies involved in its creation and explain why a mobile experience created with HTML and JavaScript is a good idea.

About the Speaker

Rob thrives on solving problems through code. He has an addiction to visual programming and can't get enough of HTML5 and JavaScript. He's a Technical Evangelist at Mozilla and leads the gaming side of their work within the developer community

This event will be recorded and live streamed. The live streaming link will be posted on http://www.sfhtml5.org/ the day of the event and on Twitter (@sfhtml5).

Directions to the Northgate Mall Community Room

The IT Career Group meetings are held in the Northgate Mall Community Room every Wednesday except the first Wednesday of the month.

The Community Room is located on the second floor of the Northgate Mall between the mall management offices and Marinlink office.  It is directly over the Subway in the mall Food Court.

Take the elevator beyond the rest rooms off the Food Court and go to the 2nd Floor. Make a 180-degree turn to the right as you come out of the elevator; the Community Room is through the double doors.  Follow the red line on the map below if you have trouble finding the elevator.  (Click on map to enlarge.)

Windows Update Hijacked!

Sorry for the continuing spate of alarming posts, but like the Linkedin password problem, this is potentially very bad news.  It appears that the Flame malware that's in the news lately can hijack the automatic Microsoft Windows Update mechanism that provides weekly updates to computers all over the planet.  A successful, widespread attack on Windows Update could infect and cause havoc on a very, very large number of computers.

Details can be found at this Security Week article.  The article doesn't make clear how dangerous the present attack is, but it appears that the infection can spread throughout a network from a single infected computer.  Make sure your security software is up-to-date, and watch for signs of unusual computer activity. 

More information on Flame can be found in the associated Wikipedia entry. 

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Linkedin Passwords Stolen! Time to Change Yours!

According to this article in Security Week, at least 6.5 million Linkedin passwords have been stolen and 300,000+ of them have been cracked so far.

To change your Linkedin password, log in to Linkedin and look for your name at the top right of the page.  Click on it to get a drop-down menu and click on Settings.  On the Settings page, look for words "Password change" below your Primary Email on the left hand side of the page.  Click on change to change your pass word. 

Linkedin's blog has a post with additional information about the tropic here.  

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