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 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 [...]

I asked Microsoft for a response to their failing score on my “Online services security report card” for their Hotmail service and got the response that Hotmail customers were hoping to hear. Microsoft will fix the problem and enable full-time SSL browsing for Hotmail this month.

New data suggests that 10% of broadband subscribers use Netflix and they consume 20% to 90% of bandwidth during peak evening hours and some are suggesting that this might destroy the Internet. But everything will be fine with good network management, capacity investment, and the freedom to offer voluntary enhance services.

Now that the problem of user account “sidejacking” can no longer be ignored, I’ve created an online services report card that highlights which websites protect your account and which don’t.

If you thought forcing SSL would protect you from Firesheep, you’d be wrong. Even running SSL on Google, Facebook, and Twitter still leave you vulnerable to account hijacking because they have javascripts that leak authentication cookies in the clear.

This is the picture of your Google accounts, Facebook accounts, Twitter accounts, Flickr accounts being hijacked by anyone running a simple point-n-click Firefox plug-in called “Firesheep”. A complete novice in computer hacking would be able to go into your Facebook page as you and do anything they want as you.