Interview on Omid Farhang

Eric Schmidt on Steve Jobs: "He was always ahead of me"

Fri, 07 Oct 2011 13:22:00 +0000

Jobs and Schmidt connect at the introduction of the iPhone, 2007

businessweek.com: The Google executive chairman admired Jobs’s passion, courage, and smarts

When he went to Apple, he was basically down to 1 percent market share. Apple was near bankruptcy, the company had been for sale, there were a series of management changes. I talked to him about it. He said, “The thing that I have that no one else has is very loyal customers.” He had these fanatical people who would line up all night for a product that wasn’t any good. He figured correctly that by upgrading and investing in and broadening the portfolio, he could do it. At some level he foresaw the next 10 years.

Hacker Rattles Security Circles: 21 Years Old Iranian

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 14:33:00 +0000

The building housing the Dutch company DigiNotar,
which issues digital Web site certificates and
was hacked last month.

The New York Times: He claims to be 21 years old, a student of software engineering in Tehran who reveres Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and despises dissidents in his country.

_“I’m totally independent,” he said in an e-mail exchange with The New York Times. “I just share my findings with some people in Iran. They are free to do anything they want with my findings and things I share with them, but I’m not responsible.” _He Said.

George W. Bush to Visit Facebook HQ for Live Video Q&A

Tue, 30 Nov 2010 20:25:00 +0000

Former U.S. President George W. Bush’s book tour will stop at Facebook’s headquarters in Palo Alto on Monday, with the social networking site announcing a “Facebook Live” event for 5 p.m. ET / 2 p.m. PT.

Bush has been making the media rounds over the past several weeks, appearing on The Today Show, Oprah and The Tonight Show among other programs to talk about his memoir “Decision Points.”

Pwn2Own Interview with Charlie Miller

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:33:00 +0000

Charlie Miller, the Pwn2Own contest winner for two years in a row, gives his take on Internet security. Guess what — your Mac OS is no less vulnerable than its Microsoft Windows counterpart.

Windows 7 or Snow Leopard, which of these two commercial OS will be harder to hack and why?

Windows 7 is slightly more difficult because it has full ASLR (address space layout randomization) and a smaller attack surface (for example, no Java or Flash by default). Windows used to be much harder because it had full ASLR and DEP (data execution prevention). But recently, a talk at Black Hat DC showed how to get around these protections in a browser in Windows.