Reuters reported this afternoon that Call of Duty: Black Ops set a first-day sales record of 5.6 million copies of the game sold for roughly $360 million in first day sales.

All Hail The Cord Cutters GigaOm Om Malik 11/8/2010 Malik takes a look back on the launch of NewTeeVee.com and his venture into cutting the cord as a self experiment in “new television”.  Malik explains that four years ago he canceled his Comcast subscription to better understand the broadband sources of video. Malik says that [...]

Sophos security’s Chester Wisniewski offered a “solution” for securing Hotspots, but it isn’t secure because it uses WPA-PSK. Anyone can sniff the initial connection and derive the unique session key which makes the solution insecure. I proposed a more secure solution for a secure anonymous hotspot back in 2007.

Edmonds reports that the Chevy Volt could cost more to drive using electricity than gasoline depending on the electric rate. Edmonds paid an average of $0.31 per KWH of electricity and $3.31 for 91 octane gasoline. Edmonds computed that $0.24 per KWH of electricity would have been parity with 91 octane gasoline, but they paid substantially more for electric fuel.

Microsoft technically “fixed” their sidejacking vulnerability by giving Hotmail users the option of manually enabling SSL. The problem is that most users won’t know to do this and even if they do, they’ll be forced to break Outlook Connector, Live Mail, and Windows Mobile Hotmail connectivity.

BlackSheep is a very clever tool for detecting amateur Wi-Fi hackers using FireSheep, but it won’t find serious Wi-Fi hackers and it distracts from the underlying problem of weak online security and nonexistent Wi-Fi Hotspot security.

Jeffery Van Camp posted a condensed version of my Online Services Security Report Card (which has been cited by many in the mainstream tech press) and somehow it managed to make it to the front page of TechMeme.  Getting bypassed by the link/news aggregation sites isn’t the first time this has happened to me or [...]

Last week Larry Lessig challenged the World Intellectual Property Organization to take the lead in overhauling current copyright law. Lessig believes the current system has failed at providing both the protection and guidelines for creative professionals, scientific research, and amateurs alike.

Transcripts from Schwarzenegger v. EMA are now available. The case examines a California law passed in 2005 that lays down steep fines on companies that sell “violent video games” to minors. “Violent video games” are defined by the law as games that meet the “Miller three prong test”.

Last year when a store employee with tongue planted firmly in cheek made a humorous YouTube video about HP Webcams being “racist”, HP the company had no choice but to respond in a serious tone and many tech publications did the same.  The problem is that the intent of the original video wasn’t clear and company lawyers [...]