This is one of the most frightening hacking stories I've read, because I immediately recognized my own vulnerability.
The victim, Matt Honan, is a writer for Wired, where he...
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This is one of the most frightening hacking stories I've read, because I immediately recognized my own vulnerability.
The victim, Matt Honan, is a writer for Wired, where he tells the story of the nightmare he experienced over the weekend. It's worth reading to understand what your own vulnerability might be, but it's also worth reading as a piece of journalism: Honan does a very nice job of telling a complicated personal story.
Honan is a familiar figure to many online, and to readers of Wired. Despite his intimacy with the Web, he admits that he made a mistake that he should never have made:
Had I been regularly backing up the data on my MacBook, I wouldn't have had to wrorry about losing more than a year's...
Last January, the Public Radio International show This American Life broadcast a program on the harsh treatment of workers in Chinese factories that produce iPhones and other...
Last January, the Public Radio International show This American Life broadcast a program on the harsh treatment of workers in Chinese factories that produce iPhones and other Apple products. The show, called Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory, was an excerpt from a theatrical production by Mike Daisey called "The Agony and The Ecstasy of Steve Jobs." On Friday, This American Life, and its host, Ira Glass, devoted an entire show to broadcasting an extraordinary retraction, in which Glass said that Daisey had lied to him, and that "the most powerful and memorable moments in the story all seem to be fabricated."
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In a post earlier today, I criticized The New York Times for failing to respond to a letter signed by 45 neuroscientists that challenged the accuracy of a Times op-ed piece. The op-ed was written by a branding consultant...
UPDATE: The public editor of The New York Times has responded to this post....
UPDATE: The public editor of The New York Times has responded to this post. Here's the link.
When something in the paper is wrong, The New York Times is supposed to correct it. Sometimes it is so eager to do so that its corrections border on the trivial. When an article in the Nov. 13 issue of the Times Magazine on rubber duckies referred to the Seiberling Rubber Company, the paper was careful to note, in last Sunday's magazine, that it should have been...
We don't often cover technology on the Tracker, and we rarely cover the kinds of things...
We don't often cover technology on the Tracker, and we rarely cover the kinds of things that made Steve Jobs famous, such as the Macintosh, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad. All the same, I found myself devouring much of the coverage in the wake of his death, and I thought some of it was worth a mention here.
Jobs lived in some world of his own making that involved not only technical innovation, vision, and and an iron hand, but also a brilliant business and marketing sense. If he's to be compared to Henry Ford and Thomas Edison, it should be not only by virtue of his innovations and vision, but also by virtue of his command of business and marketing. Jobs never seemed to be especially fond of accumulating cash, but he did say that he wanted to make...
Beware posts done in haste: I initially wrote that USA...
Beware posts done in haste: I initially wrote that USA Today illustrated its story with a picture of an iPhone, but as a reader points out, it did not; the photo was of an Android phone. Apologies to Williamson, who will probably not let me forget this.-PR
Jeff Williamson of USA Today reports a survey sure to spark conversation (and texts and tweets) among geeks and Google and Apple fans:
"Nielsen: Android edges Apple in mobile survey."
How the mighty iPhone has fallen, we're ready to exclaim!
But wait. According to Williamson, a Nielsen survey...
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