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I’ve been doing quite a bit of reading lately and have a few great articles for this week. I’ve been reading alot into VoIP and VoIP security so expect a post about that soon.

Vista is annoying… no, really - Turns out the UAC ( User Account Control ) feature of Vista was design purposely to annoy us.

Castle Wars - Ok, I’m not really a gamer, but this game just works for me. It’s akin to Magic: The gathering, if anyone else played that.

Google, Gmail, and Snooping - Here we see more talk about the wondrous privacy issues google brings up. Big Brother? Perhaps…

ActiveX Control found to be source of Windows 0-day - Windows Server 2003 and 2008, XP, and Vista are all affected by this which allows malicious code to be run as LocalSystem giving the exploit code a high level of privileges.

That’s it for this week. I’m working on an article on some fun with VoIP so look for that soon-ish. Also, I’ll be posting about a new project I’m going to be starting. Keep tuned in.

Welcome to the Reading Rainbow. Here I plan on making a weekly post of what I’ve been reading and short commentaries on some of the articles.

For those of you too young to get the joke: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6j8EiWIVZs , yes, I actually watched that show as a kid.

This weeks reading:

Security Risk Management - A different paradigm for a risk management model. Interesting read but not a whole lot of technical specifics.

Windows Still Phone’s Home - Jaqui Greenlees pops open a windows .DLL and finds some interesting ‘features’.

Your Next Text Message Could Be From the FCC - The FCC are looking to use text messaging as an alert system for national trouble, Amber alerts, and weather updates.

Sorry this weeks was short, I want to release on Sundays and I just set up wordpress today. Next week’s will be longer.