Wikiscanner.

"Wikipedia is like SecondLife for corporations...WikiScanner threatens a concept that's even more American than democracy." -Stephen Colbert

Ever heard of a Wikipedia reconnaissance tool?
Now you can with the Wikiscanner list anonymous wikipedia edits from interesting organizations.

You see, that is why Wikipedia rocks.




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iPhone security

iPhone security settings

- iPhone User's Guide (Manual)

- VPN technologies it works with

- Apple data leak

- iPhone Mail,Safari,VPN,Wireless settings

- & Many more ,Good reference site for quick iPhone security manual by Xeno Kovah.



Link here.

iPhone activation

Interesting stuff for security geeks:


Activation of the iPhone works in a similar manner to windows activation (standard signature handshake).

iTunes gets three things from the phone, the DeviceID, the IMEI, and the ICCID. This is called the token and is unique to every iPhone. This token is then sent to the apple server (alfred.apple.com) via SSL. Apple uses their private key to sign the token and transmits it back to iTunes. iTunes then calls AMDeviceActivate with this signed token. The device gets the token and checks whether or not the signature matches the token. If it does, the device is activated.


{
"UniqueDeviceID" = "aabbccdd......";
"InternationalMobileEquipmentIdentity" = "1234...."; "IntegratedCircuitCardIdentity" = "1234...";
}




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Google's new cookie recipe!

Following reports from ,Privacy International, a London-based organization focused on privacy intrusions by government and businesses,that analyzed the privacy practices of 22 Internet companies. Google received the lowest mark, followed by Yahoo, Windows Live Spaces, Hi5, Apple and AOL.

Reacting to this Google is thinking up a new cookie recipe!

Google Inc is scaling back how long it keeps personally identifiable data accumulated from its Web users.The world's top provider of Web search services said late on Monday that it is ready to curtail the time it stores user data to a year-and-a-half, the low end of an 18 to 24 month period it had originally proposed to regulators in March.

Google said it was studying how it can meet the concerns of European regulators over cookies, a widely-used consumer tracking technology that Web sites rely on to customize what users see and advertisers use to target ads.

"We are exploring ways to redesign cookies and to reduce their expiration," Fleischer states. "We plan to make an announcement about privacy improvements for our cookies in the coming months.

Privacy continues to be the Achilles' heel of Google, even though they didn't release millions of search queries that contained personal information (like AOL) or sent people to jail (like Yahoo).