Archive for November, 2007
Security Now 119: Third Party Cookies - Sponsored by Astaro Corp.
Hosts: Steve Gibson with Leo Laporte
Why does Paypal secretly send you through Doubleclick to get to some of its web pages? Steve explains how third-party cookies can violate your privacy and what to do about it.
For 16kpbs versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6.
Security Now is brought to you by Astaro Internet Security.
Bandwidth for Security Now! is provided by AOL Radio.
Running time: 1:09:30
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Security Now 119: Third Party Cookies - Sponsored by Astaro Corp.
Hosts: Steve Gibson with Leo Laporte
Why does Paypal secretly send you through Doubleclick to get to some of its web pages? Steve explains how third-party cookies can violate your privacy and what to do about it.
For 16kpbs versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6.
Security Now is brought to you by Astaro Internet Security.
Bandwidth for Security Now! is provided by AOL Radio.
Running time: 1:09:30
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Security Now 119: Third Party Cookies - Sponsored by Astaro Corp.
Hosts: Steve Gibson with Leo Laporte
Why does Paypal secretly send you through Doubleclick to get to some of its web pages? Steve explains how third-party cookies can violate your privacy and what to do about it.
For 16kpbs versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6.
Security Now is brought to you by Astaro Internet Security.
Bandwidth for Security Now! is provided by AOL Radio.
Running time: 1:09:30
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Security Now 119: Third Party Cookies - Sponsored by Astaro Corp.
Hosts: Steve Gibson with Leo Laporte
Why does Paypal secretly send you through Doubleclick to get to some of its web pages? Steve explains how third-party cookies can violate your privacy and what to do about it.
For 16kpbs versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6.
Security Now is brought to you by Astaro Internet Security.
Bandwidth for Security Now! is provided by AOL Radio.
Running time: 1:09:30
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Meteorites Reveal Mars’ Past: Molten Surface, Thick Atmosphere
If Mars ever had water flowing on its surface, as the many canyons and riverbed-like features on the Red Planet seem to indicate, it also would have needed a thicker atmosphere than what encircles that planet today. New research has revealed that Mars did indeed have a thick atmosphere for about 100 million years after the planet was formed. But the only thing flowing on Mars’ surface at that time was an ocean of molten rock.
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Meteorites Reveal Mars’ Past: Molten Surface, Thick Atmosphere
If Mars ever had water flowing on its surface, as the many canyons and riverbed-like features on the Red Planet seem to indicate, it also would have needed a thicker atmosphere than what encircles that planet today. New research has revealed that Mars did indeed have a thick atmosphere for about 100 million years after the planet was formed. But the only thing flowing on Mars’ surface at that time was an ocean of molten rock.
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Seeing Inside the Earth with Neutrinos
You know what it's like to get an X-ray done: you go to the doctor, get in a large machine, she puts on a lead vest, and X-rays shoot through your body, forming a picture of your skeletal structure. Well, using the IceCube neutrino detector – as well as other neutrino detectors to come – it might be possible to do something very similar to this, but to the Earth.
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Seeing Inside the Earth with Neutrinos
You know what it's like to get an X-ray done: you go to the doctor, get in a large machine, she puts on a lead vest, and X-rays shoot through your body, forming a picture of your skeletal structure. Well, using the IceCube neutrino detector – as well as other neutrino detectors to come – it might be possible to do something very similar to this, but to the Earth.
(more…)
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