Author: Tim's Bookmarks

Gartner’s Neil MacDonald lays out the difference between bytecode analysis and binary analysis. Veracode does binary, and is the only vendor to offer binary analysis of C/C++ apps.

Quoth Gruber: “Someone just sold the Associated Press a bag of ‘magic beans.'” One wonders what this “digital wrapper” was supposed to be anyway.

Those fools.

With physical access and a jailbreak, you can apparently get even supposedly encrypted data off an iPhone.

Easy way to force a browser to display RSS as plain XML.

Finally, some common sense surfaces in Congress. If we can say no to the F-22, the sky is the limit! Maybe.

Most of these are also the top lies of product managers.

Fingers crossed that MCA makes it through without complications.

Personal history of the Apollo program from Phil Plait. I feel the same way about Columbia.

Amateur astronomer discovers an impact site on Jupiter, where a comet or asteroid has crashed into the atmosphere near the pole.

“Cronkite understood that the ultimate role that journalism can be forced to play in democracy is, quite simply, to fight to preserve democracy itself, and that the greatest threat to our republic was when elected leaders choose to lie to the American people. That didn’t mean abandoning the core principles of journalism — aggressive fact finding, which includes first-hand observation and talking to all sides, as Cronkite did on his trip to Vietnam, or an innate sense of fairness and justice. But he knew that journalism was more than rote stenography –parroting the untruths that LBJ and the Pentagon said about the war and finding a political opponent to quote deep down in the story for “balance.” He knew there could be a time when the only way to inform the American people of a higher truth was to step outside the straight jacket of objectivity.”

John “JP” Park shows how he built a “mystery box” for Wired’s Geekdad columnist John Baichtal.

The chain of failure for Twitter’s internal documents, unsurprisingly, includes Hotmail, Gmail, Google Docs–and weak passwords and password reuse.

Stirring essay about Long Island’s ties to spaceflight and the construction of the lunar landers.

Talk about transparent. The White House blog announces webinars about the transparency provisions in the Recovery Act and provides a full schedule.

I’ll be providing some of the “weighty German rhetoric” next Saturday, singing the Brahms Requiem as part of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus.

It’s really, really hard to get good quality photos that meet the copyright test. There are a ton of articles I’ve written where there are no free images available for use.

It seems somehow appropriate and sad at the same time that Walter Cronkite should pass away just before the Apollo landing anniversary. One thinks he would have liked to see it again.

Poor reporting job amplifies the hoaxer message beyond balanced reporting. This is crap.

You too can be a Certified ASS (Application Security Specialist)!

Talking Points Memo points up the difference between right wing advocacy and left wing news gathering in the Sanford case.

Chris Eng breaks open the BlackBerry spyware.

The issue for this migration will be IE-only applications. This is why your staff always begged you to deploy a web app that was reliably cross browser.

Underscores the importance of information security assessments for mobile applications.

Mercy me. Maybe one day, we’ll be able to spare QA resources and engineering brainpower on something other than this old and busted browser. After all, no one supports Netscape 4 any more.

Focusing on doing The Main Thing for a product manager means: know the business, know the customers, and lead.

Great interview with my favorite Marsalis brother.

Free track from Hope Sandoval’s new album, only her fifth in about 20 years. Her last solo album came out eight years ago.

Profile of Franken that, mercifully, leads with the Stuart Smalley connection.

Digging deep into the muck around the Presidential Surveillance Program and its child programs. The sickbed visit to Ashcroft to intimidate him into authorizing a program that he knew was unconstitutional is even worse than it seemed at the time.

An ample and gracious survey of the landscape adjacent to my youth. Growing up in Newport News, you knew about the bay culture a bit if you visited Poquoson but up in the Eastern Shore you get the real thing.

Scott Rosenberg does his usual insightful job of putting (old) new technologies in perspective. “Too many blogs,” indeed–as though we were going to run out of space to put them!

Security fixes include escalation of privileges with some plugin admin screens. Go upgrade.

Originally I just thought this was a heavy handed way of leveraging a cut of DL’s revenue, but now it looks like they’re retroactively shutting down the app entirely. Why??? Bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, Amazon.

Decompilation injection–routines that are only injected into the binary if it's decompiled and recompiled–as protection against IP theft.

Oh my stars and garters. Beautiful typography in WordPress just got a little closer, with this plugin that handles hyphenation, spacing control, intelligent character replacement, and special styles for special characters.

Copy and Paste, either one photo or multiple, to get full resolution goodness in email. Not so useful for forwarding pix to friends; VERY useful for emailing photos to Flickr.

The link is to an absolutely brilliant, well photographed PDF that probably just saved me a big chunk of change.

Nice little bit of 200 year old crypto.

The disagreements over which codecs will be supported in the new Video tag in HTML 5 turn out to be fairly simple, with the drawback that you need to provide files in both H.264 and Ogg formats. Gruber runs down the process.

XHTML 2 is dead. HTML 5 is going forward.

How bad was June? Pretty bad. Great infographic showing deviation from average rainfall (high), average temperature (low), and percentage of possible sunshine (0).