For all you folks, fan of the civil liberties as well as the Olympic games, here's the integral text of the International Olympic Committee Blogging Guidelines for the accredited persons. It's the perfect companion of the recent decision from the Olympic Chinese Committee to ban the flags from the stadiums.

As you will read, blogs are admitted but:

But you are lucky, still you can use your plain white Olympic blog homepage to test the brightness of your screen.   

... enjoy and please comment the official text  

"It is not a bug, it is a feature. You invented the wheel."

If you get this kind of answer from a website operator in relation to a security bug found in his application, then you have only two choices: either you're paranoid or the operator doesn't care much about security. What are talking about? About leakage of 250.000 email addresses.

One of the most visited websites in Slovakia, the community website Azet.sk known thanks to his freemail and chat services has several sections, among which is also a dating section . The website is visited by surfers of various age that would like to find a partner for anything: chating, meeting, sex etc. You just put an announce and everybody can respond you through a web form. But few days ago, on one of the most visited security blogs in Slovakia blog.synopsi.com appeared the detailed description of how to get email addresses from the Azet dating service with a PoC script.

Warning: this article is not for the fainted of heart!

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link", this sentence applies to any process that will fail if some step in it goes wrong. The guys at Technical Park and ABB, the industrial colossus that built the new Flying Fury  amusement park attraction, should have taken it into consideration.

Here's the story...

Without any doubt, the best article published about the Darpa's Turst in IC program has appeared on IEEE Spectrum's website.  We welcome you to read that article, then to come back here as we posted our comments (oh boy, we have so much to say...)