MySpace Bug Leaks 'Private' Teen Photos to Voyeurs (Wired)

A backdoor in MySpace's architecture allows anyone who's interested to see the photographs of some users with private profiles -- including those under 16 -- despite assurances from MySpace that those pictures can only be seen by people on a user's friends list. Info about the backdoor has been circulating on message boards for months.

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Theo Jansens’s Mechanical Pneumatic Beasts (Design News: Spatial Engineering and Aesthetics)

Imagine beaches across the world populated by inorganic autonomous mindless beasts, dependant only on the earth’s wind for their mobility. No I am not talking of the army of plastic bags currently populating our city streets; I am referring to the Strandbeests, the kinetic sculptures created by artist Theo Jansen.

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SANS Flags Browsers, Botnets as Top Security 'Menaces' (Campus Technology)

Research and education organization the SANS Institute this week revealed its list of the top menaces facing IT in the coming year. Echoing earlier reports from security watchdog organizations, the group's "Top-10 Cyber Security Menaces for 2008" cited Web 2.0 technologies, converged devices, botnets, and browser addons among the worst, with a heavy emphasis on consumerized technologies and the vulnerabilities they present.

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US intel chief wants carte blanche to peep all 'Net traffic' (Ars Technica)

In a new New Yorker profile, top spy Mike McConnell says he needs broad new powers to save our data. "He's got the whole 'Net, in his hands..."

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