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The ePassport cloning myth never dies: Here we go again with the BBC reporting the same myth that electronic passports have been “cloned” which got a lot of readers from digg and slashdot. This grossly misinformed myth has been repeated so many times by the press that the lie has basically become true. I’m...; Tags: RFID ePassport, RFID, Lukas Grunwald; Blog posts 2006-12-18
Passport chips can be copied, researcher says: The State Department is readying a new passport with RFID chips that supposedly will prevent document forgery. Privacy advocates have long worried that bad guys would easily be able to grab the data from these RFID passports with long-range readers. But now comes a new threat: A German computer scientist...; Tags: Lukas Grunwald, chip, passport; Blog posts 2006-08-04

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Hillary Clinton in command for 'when' President: Digital Markets Blog presidential campaign 2008 special series on what I am calling “User Generated Politics”An in command Hillary Clinton sought to assure the American public last evening that she is ready and able to command the U.S. armed forces in decisive action if needed, “when” she is President...; Tags: Barack Obama, Government, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, Political Campaign, Politics, President Clinton, Presidential Race, User Generated Politics; Blog posts 2007-04-27
Santa Claus high-tech tools: If you dont believe that Santa Claus can deliver presents to millions of homes in a single night, Larry Silverberg, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at North Carolina State University NCSU, explains that Santas society of elves has an understanding of physics and engineering that exceeds our own. In...; Tags: Biotechnology, tool, Santa, North American Aerospace Defense Command, Santa Claus; Blog posts 2006-12-24
GoogTube - MTV for the Web generation: GoogTube - MTV for the Web generationGoogTube is Google's Second ActThis is a powerful move on the part of Google to go beyond selling incremental ads through a new avenue (although there's that aspect too). This is a shift from Search to Content and being at the center of...; Tags: Web, GoogTube, MTV, Fox, Web generation, network; Discussion threads 2006-10-09

GoogTube on the way?: GoogTube on the way?Message has been deleted.GoogTube is Google's Second ActGoogle's acquisition of YouTube is a major step forward for them and will allow them to control major content for the first time as the category-killer for that space. It is much more than selling ads. I write...; Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate law, GoogTube, Google Inc.; Discussion threads 2006-10-06
Google - beyond the interview: Google - beyond the interviewMessage has been deleted.Personalized SearchI don't understand how personalizing the search results is a benefit to me. I would prefer that a search engine NOT bias my results based on past searches. Otherwise I risk missing any NEW items I might be looking for...; Tags: SEARCH, Strategy, GoogTube, Google Inc., search engine, searcher, User B; Discussion threads 2006-10-02
RFID passports and VeriChip security podcast: I had the opportunity to interview Kevin Mahaffey who is the Director of Development for Flexilis Inc. Kevin and his team of researchers presented a video at Black Hat 2006 illustrating improperly shielded RFID Radio Frequency Identifier passports that can potentially be used to trigger a bomb.It turns out...; Tags: RFID, passport; Blog posts 2006-08-21
From primary to college, kids are grabbing up electronics: It's Christmas in August for retailers who sell school back-to-school gadgets and gizmos. This year they are making the most of the digital craze, especially with a drop in prices making many digital essentials more affordable, reports The New York Times. "Tech-based products are so much less expensive that...; Tags: laptop computer, digitaL; Blog posts 2006-08-18
On not learning from history: On not learning from historyNote also ...There is also the issue of people ripping out implants out of other people to use the chips. This could lead to crimes becoming more and more gory. Then there are of course privacy issues which many people conveniently dismiss.Careful about the RFID "copy"I...; Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), SECURITY, RFID; Discussion threads 2006-08-12
First cloned passports, then bombs, and now ATM fraud: Security problems should plague RFID's future: First, it took hackers barely two weeks to clone the new RFID-based passports. Wrote Wired of the situation:Grunwald says it took him only two weeks to figure out how to clone the passport chip. Most of that time he spent reading the standards for e-passports that are posted on a...; Tags: passport, RFID; Blog posts 2006-08-09
Lukas, the robot that removes weeds: Lukas, the robot that removes weedsOh please oh please oh pleaseI want one for my yard that can pull clover and crabgrass. My back is killin' me!; Tags: Robots, Luka, robot; Discussion threads 2005-09-16
Lukas, the robot that removes weeds: A mobile agricultural robot named Lukas weeds fields in Sweden, according to innovations-report, Germany. With its infrared cameras and a computer running some specialized software, Lukas can recognize the difference between crops and weeds and remove automatically the weeds. It could be used for all vegetables that are grown in...; Tags: robot, Luka; Blog posts 2005-09-16
9% of kids 9-12 have their own Web sites: Peter Grunwald of the Internet research firm Grunwald Associates estimates there are about 2 million sites created by kids age 6 to 17. By next year, his research indicates, there could be 6 million or more. Further, he estimates that 9% of kids age 9 to 12 have their own...; Tags: INTERNET, Web site development, Web site, Web; Blog posts 2004-03-26
10% of under-teenagers have their own Web site: Grunwald Associates finds that 10% of children ages six to 17 in the US have their own Web site. In fact, 30% say they plan to have their own Web site in the future. Grunwald estimates that the current 10% of kids with Web sites represents over 2 million...; Tags: Web site, Grunwald Associates; Blog posts 2003-12-09
The SOA Radical - Lukas Svoboda: When web services first came about, most people wondered if they were really the right way to go. After all performance wasn't great for some things and the wire format of text/xml was rather large and bulky. Over time people came to think of SOA and web services as the...; Tags: Web Service, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software; Webcasts