The Nightly Build Wednesday February 14
The Nightly Build:
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Along with the Window’s updates we mentioned this morning, Microsoft has also released a new security update for Mac Office 2004. The patch addresses a vulnerability that could allow attackers to overwrite the contents of your computer’s memory with malicious code.
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GMail is finally open to the public. We’re serious this time. It really is. Possibly. I was able to sign up straight from the page and that’s all I’m willing to commit to, having been burned by reporting this story twice already. YMMV
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ZDNet reports that the hard drive stolen from the Birmingham VA Medical Center last week may have contained personal information on 535,000 people — 10 times the amount originally estimated. Yeah that’s the same VA folks that announced increased security measures last year. That worked well. Via Techdirt
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A US Group wants Canada listed on the infamous blacklist of intellectual property villains, alongside China, Russia and Belize. That group is naturally made of of the RIAA, the MPAA, the BSA, the ESA, which is way too many acronyms in one sentence so we’re following BoingBoing’s lead and mash them to just read: MAFIAA. But remember to sing: Blame Canada, blame Canada! Everybody Now.
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Today’s web zen doesn’t exist, how zen is that?
