Links of Interest for November 9th, 2005
A few quick items:
Here is a funny commercial featuring Steve Nash and Ali G (Quicktime).
Cannes International Advertising Festival Winners Reel Screening (wow, that’s a mouthful): Monday, November 21st at the Vogue Theatre.
Speaking of events, the GDC is presenting ‘An Evening with the Judges’ as part of Graphex ‘06: Friday, November 18th at the Pacific Palisades Hotel.
The early bird deadline for the Whistler Blackcomb EDGE Card is November 18th. I’ve got mine…
Sex on TV is on the, uh, rise…
The copy protection in recent Sony-BMG discs (XCP) has been causing all kinds of problems and a group in Italy has asked the police to look into whether or not Sony-BMG has broken any Italian internet security laws. Here is a list of some of the discs that have XCP.
Happy Birthday Firefox!
XCP is more than just an inconvenience. There are reports of a trojan that makes use of XCP infected machines in the wild.
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/8402
Posted by KevinW on November 10th, 2005
Additional, XCP provide ability to hack games like warcraft, kool
http://online.securityfocus.com/brief/34
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/04/secfocus_wow_bot/
Posted by Henry on November 14th, 2005