Here is today’s Daily Run Down.

• Apple has filed for a patent that uses photos to alter music.
• The Web OS 2.1 SDK is now available to all.
• The HTC Thunderbolt has been rooted.
• Steve Gibson has reverse-engineerd RSA’s statement regarding their ‘security breach’.
• Trace Amounts of Radiation have hit the coast of California; no threat according to experts.
• Former Secretary of State Warren Christopher has died at the age of 85.
• Berlin’s Polar Bear, Knut, has died unexpectantly.
• Here are some SuperMoon Images from over the weekend.
• Japan is reluctant to show High-resolution photos of it’s Fukushima plant after the tsunami.
• AT&T is going to acquire T-mobile USA.
• SnapTu has been acquired by Facebook.
• Here is the XKCD Radiation Chart.
• Google is accusing China of blocking Gmail.
• Japan has slapped restrictions on Milk and Vegetables due to ‘more radiation’ than thought near Fukushima .

Look for more stories tomorrow. If an important story has been missed please leave it in the comments.

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Here is today’s Daily Run Down.

Current News:

• Steve Gibson is reporting that Adobe’s Flash is very vulnerable.
• France has marked the 66th Anniversary of D-Day.
• Qualcomm has shipped a dual-core Snapdragon Chipset.
• VLC’s new Player now supports WebM and H.264 Hardware Decoding.

Historical Events:

• In 1833, President Andrew Jackson was the first to ride on a train.
• In 1889, the Great Seattle Fire destorys all of downtown Seattle, Washington.
• In 1892, The Chicago El began operation.
• In 1925, Walter Percy Chrysler founded the Chrysler Corporation.
• In 1944, The Battle of Normandy has begun which will later be called D-Day.
• In 1968, Senator Robert F Kennedy dies from his wounds after being shot.

Look for more stories tomorrow.

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On SN 94: The Fourth Authentication Type, Leo and Steve talked about how a hacker can have a thumb drive, install keylogging software, put it in a Library computer, leave it there for a week, come back and have all of the user names and passwords of the people who sat there. I’d like to argue this point, heavily. There may be some libraries that do not have any restrictions on their patron terminals, however there are many, including the one that I work at, that do. We run a program called “trust-no-exe”. this does exactly what you think. It stops all EXE files from loading except the ones that you specify. We do this, in addition to several other security related things.

Additionally, many of the libraries in the US had donated, or were allowed to purchase at a significant discount, computers from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. And the B&MGF did not just give the computers and say, here, you deal with security. No, the setup included that all of the users are Non-Administrators. Many libraries are extremely concerned about security and privacy, particularly because they have a very diverse population. One specific thing is that we did not allow thumb drives until we could find a way to restrict them from running programs. Plus, being non-administrator users, our patrons cannot run the U3 Software, since that requires Administrative rights; yet they can still save their files to their thumb drives. Many libraries continued this setup, even if they replaced their aging Gates’ computers.

I find the belief that libraries are lackadaisical when it comes to security, disheartening and rather assumptive on the part of Leo and Steve.

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