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Toowoomba, QLD yesterday. Heavy weather is HEAVY

from http://www.placehacking.co.uk/2010/12/30/2010-retrospect/

Introducing Transcend, Recon Instruments’ collaboration with Colorado’s Zeal Optics. Transcend is the world’s first GPS-enabled goggles with a head-mounted display system.

Minimum interaction is required during use, sleek graphics and smart optics are completely unobtrusive for front and peripheral vision making it the ultimate solution for use in fast-paced environments.

Transcend provides real-time feedback including speed, latitude/longitude, altitude, vertical distance travelled, total distance travelled, chrono/stopwatch mode, a run-counter, temperature and time. It is also the only pair of goggles in the world that boasts GPS capabilities, USB charging and data transfer, and free post-processing software all with a user-friendly, addictive interface.

Just like the dashboard of a sports car or the instruments of a fighter jet, Transcend’s display provides performance-enhancing data, but only when you choose to view it. Safe, smart, fun…all wrapped up in the hottest goggle frame of 2010/11. (via Snow | Recon Instruments)

from http://borninconcrete.blogspot.com/p/gallery.html

Considering that the backbone of the Tunisian Internet is full of state run filters and firewalls designed to block access, configuring one to log the GET commands with the harvested data would be trivial. But is this a government sponsored action?

The likelihood that a group of criminals compromised the entire Tunisian infrastructure is virtually nonexistent. Code planting on this scale could only originate form an ISP. With their history of holding an iron grip on the Internet, ATI is the logical source of the information harvesting.

There is an upside however, as the embedded JavaScript only appears when one of the sites is accessed with HTTP instead of HTTPS. In each test case, we were able to confirm that Gmail and Yahoo were only compromised when HTTP was used. For Facebook on the other hand, the default is access is HTTP, so users in Tunisia will need to visit the HTTPS address manually.

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The information surrounding the embedded JavaScript came to our attention thanks to a user on the IRC server where supporters for Anonymous’ Operation: Tunisia gathered to show support for Tunisian protesters. When word spread of embedded code and account hijackings, Anonymous offered Tunisian users help via Userscripts.org, with a browser add-on that strips the added JavaScript code.

via Tunisian government harvesting usernames and passwords