The Technology newsbucket: 1982's netbook, a retort to bankers, iPad's future and more

Photo by Berto Garcia on Flickr. Some rights reserved A burst of 8 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team A Merry Christmas to all Bankers >> LightBlueTouchpaper Ross Anderson had a 'robust' response to bankers who wanted to censor his student's MPhil thesis which showed up faults in Chip-and-PIN. Sinclair ZX Spectrum advert >> Shardcore Yes! Up to 48K RAM! Moving keyboard! Only £125! Take that netbooks! 1982 is calling and it wants its prices back! Apple Gearing Up To Sell 6 Million iPad 2s A Month, Versus 4 Million iPad 1s Per Quarter >> Business Insider "Apple is also NOT gearing up to produce a widely rumored 7-inch version of the iPad, DigiTimes' sources say." Odd, the no-7-inch-iPad "prediction" is one we've been making for a while. How much of Twitter do the founders still own? >> Show me numbers Interesting estimate of who owns how much of it after all those funding rounds. MacBook Air flash storage torture tests | Flash Memory >> Macworld Basically shows that an SSD (solid state disk using Flash) gives data access at twice the speed for a laptop - making it comparable with a desktop. But Mac OSX lacks a utility to keep the SSD in good shape (called TRIM), so only SSDs that have a built-in controller that does it are useful. Note and beware. Broadband, NGA, FTTC and the laws of unforeseen consequences >> Broadband Cumbria blog Intriguing analysis of how expensive it is (or isn't) to lay fibre optic cable (which is cheaper than copper) to wire up a rural area. This turns out to be one of the best possible targets for a "Big Society" approach - which means corporations won't countenance it. Internet Explorer zero-day exploit against all versions: explanation and mitigation >> Naked Security Internet Explorer considered harmful. Again. "Unfortunately, Microsoft allows each DLL to decide whether it supports ASLR or not. And IE is implemented as a whole raft of DLLs - some of which are loaded at run-time, as needed, to render content which IE downloads. So, by sending otherwise-innocent files to IE, you can trick it into loading known DLLs. If any of those DLLs do not support ASLR, then they are loaded at a known place in memory. "Heigh, ho, Microsoft. There's not much point in putting security guards on every door but leaving the windows open! And those unsafe DLLs mean exactly that - unsafe Windows." Blog Archive » MSE 2.0: watch out for false positives! >> Malware Diaries So many false positives it looks like fake malware: "All in all, MSE 2.0 needs to tune down the aggressive Java scanner as such behaviour only reinforces the sense of confusion a lot of people have about AV software." You can follow Guardian Technology's linkbucket on delicious To suggest links, tag articles on delicious.com with "guardiantech"