Nasty phishing opportunity on Citibank

Click the digg to see, or the thumbs for screenshots. It basically allows a third-party to frame their own content and receive form submissions with no warning prompts. The POC provides a citibank-skinned login form and sends an alert() onSubmit without the login details. It doesn’t prove that the data is being retreived, but there’s no reason to think they couldn’t. Shoddy workmanship on Citibank’s part, a bank should really do better than this.

Software Wars

No doubt some people will take this seriously, I just think it’s a tad humourous. It’ll probably get more humourous the more people take it seriously.

Photos from North Korea

Incredible photos from North Korea, taken from the travelblog of a Russian visitor, with rough translations. Pictorials like this always fascinate me, because in a way they’re a viewport to the past, and they also remind me of my glastnost / perestroika-era school tour to Russia. Fair dues to Douglas Comm’s Gerry Motherway for pulling that one off.

Vista v SuSE (+Fedora+Ubuntu+Kubuntu)

This comparison between Novell’s and Microsoft’s next operating systems is interesting because of who’s writing it: CRN is more business-oriented than the usual sites that review operating systems (it’s got “Reseller”, “Channel”, “VAR” and “Integrators” in the TITLE on the front page!); and CRN’s reviewers don’t really come across as major power users, despite the reference to “Test Center engineers”. (more…)

Transformer Houses

I know it’s nerdy to think stuff like this is cool, but what can you do?

In 1987, Canadian photographer Robin Collyer began documenting houses that aren’t houses at all – they’re architecturally-disguised electrical substations, complete with windows, blinds, and bourgeois landscaping.

Funny