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Day’s Tour: Slurp, Biometrics and Haptics Demo
–by Andrew McCaskey
You may recall the item from a few days ago that referenced the “slurping iPod” – I had a note today from a listener who was looking for a few more details from pubs like IT WEEK and Security Park on that story. He was preparing a memo to support locking down USB devices for a corporate client. Unlike the ‘A list’ bloggers, I can’t go Googlefree for a week, so a quick search of GoogleNews revealed that there’s quite an issue, driven by the data theft tool called slurp.exe which was invented as a vulnerablility demonstration – a company called Centennial Software has the antidote, Centennial’s DeviceWall, and a demo version called Slurp Audit, a version of Slurp that produces a list of unprotected documents with their filenames and paths.
It’s a good illustration of the good versus evil of the same USB stick technology that we’ve spoken of before from U3.com and PortableApps.com. I had to wonder, though, if the next round couldn’t combine with biometrics, and block all USB devices except the fingerprint ID’d devices.
Totally unrelated, but really fun is a site found later in the day: a video of a really cool touchscreen interface – about ten times better than the Bill Gates demo at CES. Hard to describe, about three minutes long. Linked on Slashdotreview.
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Now a really useful guide to Fixing Windows with Knoppix has appeared online, a reprint of a chapter in the book Hacking Knoppix from Scott Granneman . You might want to plan ahead, print out the chapter and put it alongside a fresh burn of Knoppix STD when you get the call.
I came across Google SMS again today- a way to pull all sorts of useful stuff from Google with the fast SMS from your cellphone.
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