Month: August 2011

*.google.com cert posted online by hackers! IRAN possibly?

see for yourself http://pastebin.com/ff7Yg663 also read here http://pastebin.com/SwCZqskV If you are a mozilla Firefox user and wish to delete the cert, please see this post http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/deleting-diginotar-ca-cert   this is the first known thread that mentioned the posting. http://www.google.co.uk/support/forum/p/gmail/thread?tid=2da6158b094b225a&hl=en   Microsoft also posted a prompt response Microsoft Releases Security Advisory 2607712 http://blogs.technet.com/b/msrc/archive/2011/08/29/microsoft-releases-security-advisory-2607712.aspx   Google responded in …

Bad fuel leak on 300sdl

I just finished fixing the massive fuel leaks on my Mercedes. boy that was super fun. It all started with a couple of pinhole leaks in the hard metal fuel lines from the injection pump to the injectors. apparently the previous owner did not have the clips installed to stop the lines from vibrating and …

$99 Touchpad anyone? maybe loaded with honeycomb?

There is already a movement to put honeycomb on the Touchpad. Now that HP has discontinued the Touchpad, you can search for one from Walmart and start loading a proper OS. http://rootzwiki.com/showthread.php?t=3327 http://touchpadroid.blogspot.com/   Update! ok, by 11:31 on August 24th most retailers are sold out. But it is rumored that another shipment should arrive …

Google buys Motorola, maker of the Droid smartphone for 12.5B!

Kinda big news, the maker of the popular Droid smartphone, Motorola,  is being purchased by Google. Apparently Google needs patents and Motorola has plenty. They also have made of of the best hardware platforms for Google’s Android smartphone software. Motorola owns something like 17,000 patents on mobile phones, and plenty more in the pipeline. Larry …

CDMA and 4G possibly vulnerable to man in the middle attack! (Confirmed!)

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/92370-4g-and-cdma-reportedly-hacked-at-def-con Ill write more later.. it seems this may be legit.. if so I wonder which 4g was hacked…   Update, apparently this has now been confirmed by a second source, still no word of which 4g this affects.. Also no word from the carriers yet. I would say that this is not good news …