Author Archives: Joe Atzberger

About Joe Atzberger

Joe Atzberger (atz) is a library hacker in Palo Alto, CA. He worked with Galen at both LibLime and Equinox Software, Inc. as an open source developer on Koha and Evergreen. Joe currently works on Hydra and institutional digital repository infrastructure at Stanford.

AntiSec Finds 12.3 Million Apple UDIDs on FBI Laptop, Publish 1M

Let the speculation begin as to how and why the FBI would have these Universal Device IDs for Apple products, but apparently, they do: http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/One-million-Apple-UDIDs-leaked-by-hacker-group-1698478.html And thanks to one of the recent exploits of Java’s browser plug-in, the hacker group … Continue reading

Google Wants You To Know The Government(s) Are Out To Get You… No, Really.

If you thought the recent LinkedIn/eHarmony/LastFM password leak was troubling, just be glad you haven’t run into this, positively the most bizarre security warning available from gmail: We believe state-sponsored attackers may be attempting to compromise your account or computer. … Continue reading

Oracle v. Google: APIs Ruled NOT Copyrightable

Bigger than the trial jury’s rejection of Oracle’s patent claims against Android, Judge Aslup has further ruled that no API is copyrightable.  Groklaw again with the goods: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120531173633275 From the commentary: The sky has been full of FUD about this … Continue reading