Linkdump for January 12th through January 14th
January 14th, 2009 Chris
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- philosecurity Blog Archive Interview with an Adware Author – "So we’ve progressed now from having just a Registry key entry, to having an executable, to having a randomly-named executable, to having an executable which is shuffled around a little bit on each machine, to one that’s encrypted– really more just obfuscated– to an executable that doesn’t even run as an executable. It runs merely as a series of threads."
tags: tech software security - My Genome, My Self – Stephen Pinker writes a nice treatise on the state of genetic testing, and the challenges that lie ahead.
tags: science genomics culture medicine - How Porsche hacked the financial system and made a killing – I read about this maneuver on Metafilter when it happened and was wowed. This explains it in layman's detail. Don't miss the comments for the criticism of Porsche's financial opacity.
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