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Here are some interesting links from the past couple days:

• MicroSD Card Low Price Search of the Week
• LinkedIn Now Mobile
  I guess it's inevitable that most social networks will go mobile to survive. Now, the 19 million members of the world's largest professional online network LinkedIn can access this site via mobile phones. Just visit http://m.linkedin.com and enter your ac
• LinkedIn CEO on ‘grown up’ social networking
  Benefits of LinkedIn over Facebook?
  We're about to hit 20 million members and we add 1.2 million users every month, so 300,000 people join every week. And these people are joining because they're all professional and because they're all over the world -
• Oregon State increases reliance on Macs
  While Macs don't comprise a majority of the computers at Oregon State — roughly 150 out of 3,000, or 5 percent — the number of Macs is rising, according to CIO. "Macs are more friendly to PC users than they used to be,"
• Finjan uncovers database storing more than 8,700 stolen FTP credentials
  The San Jose-based vendor announced today that it has uncovered an illegal database containing more than 8,700 stolen File Transfer Protocol server credentials including usernames, passwords and server addresses. Anyone can purchase those credentials and

Here are some interesting links from today:

• Dock Your Old Drives with the Hard Drive USB Dock
  Dock any internal SATA hard drive in this USB dock to turn any internal drive into an external drive on-the-quick.
• What PayPal does with your money
  They've figured out how not to be regulated, and they've done that globally," Quarles said. "[PayPal] has gone to great pains to be not considered a bank

Watch as this 3 year old briefly explains StarWars Episode 4.

According to the guy who posted the video…

She explained the whole movie to me in much greater detail but unfortunately I didn’t have the camera going. When I finally caught her talking about the movie again she delivered this truncated, but still funny, version.

See the original article here

Here are some interesting links from today:

• AT&T, Tenn. Create Medical Info Exchange
  AT&T Inc. is partnering with Tennessee to provide the country's first statewide system to electronically exchange patient medical information, the telecommunications company said Monday.

  The system is designed to securely transmit detailed patient info

• NTT RedTacton Device Turns Your Body Into Swipe Card
  Japanese telecom company NTT is soon to launch a product that transmits data via your body, effectively turning you into a touch-technology swipe card. RedTacton is a card-like gadget that you simply carry anywhere on your person, and it transmits data vi

This NY Times article shows how a Princeton University computer security researcher is able to steal encryption codes out of DRAM by simply freezing it out of them.

“Cool the chips in liquid nitrogen (-196 °C) and they hold their state for hours at least, without any power,” Edward W. Felten, a Princeton computer scientist, wrote in a Web posting. “Just put the chips back into a machine and you can read out their contents.”

How do you keep your data safe?