This week, I'm attending the 2009 CFP conference at the George Washington University in DC. So far, I found out that there's still far too few people that understand privacy when it comes to social networking sites.

Even more interesting was the information about Cross site scripting and worse and just how easy attacks like that (and others) are to use. If I were to put a certain code on this page and you still had Facebook or your bank open in another window, just by viewing this page I could manipulate your accounts.

It's really interesting stuff, but the lesson for the day is to never stay logged into services when browsing around in other windows or tabs.

At least, not anymore. For anyone who thought those little fingerprint readers that some laptops have provide better security, I hope you won't be surprised to find out that they've been defeated.

The researchers were able to bypass Lenovo's Veriface III, Asus' SmartLogon V1.0.0005, and Toshiba's Face Recognition 2.0.2.32, even with each program set for maximum security.

This is clever. HP used a variety of laptop parts to make a cool and silent, but powerful gaming desktop.

Download a copy of Firefox 3 this Tuesday the 17th. Send a message that we're tired of big-company products that aren't stable, aren't standard, aren't secure, and can't be customized.

I don't know about the accuracy of the claim that a screen with darker colors and more black will reduce eyestrain, but I'm going to try it out. Besides, it looks really cool