Follow Up on Omid Farhang

Banking System Vulnerability – 3 million bank accounts hacked in Iran [Updated]

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 11:38:00 +0000

As I said in the other post, Iran’s Central Bank has announced that the electronic information of 3 million customers of 10 Iranian banks have been compromised. These banks now require their customers to change their ATM pin numbers before they can access their account. This has caused a rush to the ATM machines by the worried customers.

The hacker was identified as Khosro Zare’, a former bank-system specialist in Iran who recently left the country. Zare’ claimed in a blog that he hacked the PIN codes to highlight the vulnerability of Iran’s banking system.

LibreOffice Update

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 13:30:00 +0000

from Asa Dotzler: Firefox and more

I’m not going to apologize for complaining about the terrible, awful, horrible, no good, very bad experience I had when I decided to give LibreOffice a try. It was abysmal and improving that experience should be a top priority for that team if they care about expanding LibreOffice beyond the few Linux users who get it pre-installed. But, I do think I could have done more to propose fixes rather than just rant about the brokenness of the experience so I’ve done just that.

Update: Google Buys Motorola

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 21:53:00 +0000

Google Operating System Blog: Google found a way to solve the problem of Android patents and it’s only three times more expensive than acquiring the Nortel patents: buying Motorola for $12.5 billion.

“Motorola has a history of over 80 years of innovation in communications technology and products, and in the development of intellectual property, which have helped drive the remarkable revolution in mobile computing we are all enjoying today. (…) In 2008, Motorola bet big on Android as the sole operating system across all of its smartphone devices. It was a smart bet and we’re thrilled at the success they’ve achieved so far,” says Google’s CEO, Larry Page.