The researchers of the Princeton University that claimed to have broken virtually all disk encryption schemes have now released the source code of their research.
Last february the researchers were able to bypass all disk encryption schemes by freezing a computer’s memory with liquid oxygen and retrieving the encryption keys from the frozen memory banks.
Contrary to [...]

After doing my famous victory dance, hopping up & down on my chair and giggling like a little child on christmas morning I finally managed to calm myself down enough to order my OpenMoko Freerunner!
Yes people, it is available!! The official OpenMoko store won’t start shipping until July 7th but you can get one from [...]

According to Ars Technica, the Guiness Book of World Records has recognized the record set by Mozilla for most software downloads in one day!
With over 8,002,530 unique downloads in the first 24 hours Firefox 3 is now officially the record holder and the best browser! Congratulations to the Mozilla & Firefox team!

If there is one smart phone I find worthy of buying it’s got to be the Neo Freerunner. It’s the world’s only phone that runs an Open platform and is built from Open hardware. When I checked the OpenMoko.com website today I noticed it was entirely rebuilt and was featuring the final specifications for the [...]

OpenID, the open way of authentication yourself is gaining more and more popularity. Two sites I use often, sourceforge.net and slicehost.com are now OpenID enabled!
I’ve blogged about OpenID before, here’s an introduction.

OSCON, the anual Open Source Convention is something I have yet to visit. I can only imagine how great it would be to attend a convention dedicated to the wonder that Open Source is.
OSCON 2008 has a great program, just to name a few:

Ubuntu at OSCON
There will be a number of Ubuntu related talks this [...]

Ouch…. Only 5 hours after the official release:
What we can confirm is that about five hours after the official release of Firefox 3.0 on June 17th, our Zero Day Initiative program received a critical vulnerability affecting Firefox 3.0 as well as prior versions of Firefox 2.0.x. We verified the vulnerability in our lab, acquired it [...]

I just finished the upgrade to the latest and greatest version of Wordpress. This site is now powered by Wordpress 2.5 and let me tell you, this is one awesome release! The biggest changes are only visible to the admin users of this blog, as a reader you won’t notice anything different.
Have a look at [...]

The guys over at LifeHacker have a nice screenshot tour of the upcoming Ubuntu release.
Every six months when a new version of Ubuntu Linux gets released, long-time users and curious toe-dippers ask the same questions: “What’s new?”; “Is it worth upgrading?”; and, “Will my wireless card finally work with this version?” Having grabbed the newest [...]

The folks over at Canonical announced that on April 25th, Ubuntu 6.10 (aka Edgy Eft) will reach end of life. The planned 18 months life span of the non LTS version of the Ubuntu operating system will have passed on that date and the suggested upgrade path is to upgrade from 6.10 to Ubuntu 7.04 [...]