Reboot - Holiday Edition: Tuesday December 26

Howdy Ho! Here’s hoping that you all had a wonderful long weekend, presuming you got a long weekend. Let’s have a taste of some of the things going on over Christmas and Boxing Day. Hackers are quickly discovering serious flaws in Vista and IE7. [The New York Times] Ernesto of TorrentFreak has posted a rebuttal […]

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Howdy Ho! Here's hoping that you all had a wonderful long weekend, presuming you got a long weekend. Let's have a taste of some of the things going on over Christmas and Boxing Day.

  • Hackers are quickly discovering serious flaws in Vista and IE7. [The New York Times]
  • Ernesto of TorrentFreak has posted a rebuttal to my piece from last week about why encrypting BitTorrent traffic is counterproductive.
  • Mike Arrington lists the companies he most wanted to profile in 2006. [TechCrunch]
  • Slashdot members discuss Steve Kerrison's thesis that social network users have ruined their online privacy.
  • Guba co-founder and CEO Tom McInerney has left the company. The video sharing service is rumored to be shopping itself around to the big web content players, hoping for an acquisition. [NewTeeVee]