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Firefox blocks insecure .Net add-on–awkwardly

Mozilla on Friday disabled a Microsoft plug-in for Firefox called the .Net Framework Assistant because of a security problem–then scrambled to give people with patched systems an override option.
Mike Shaver, Mozilla’s vice president of engineering, announced the first step late Friday night on his blog. “It’s recently surfaced that it has a serious security vulnerability, [...]

External HDD with a keypad for security

Ahhh, this is very 24. I can see Jack Bauer pulling nuclear secrets off it after choking a terrorist to death with the USB cable. I don’t think that’s the image Lenovo is going for, though. In fact, its appearance is plain practically to the point of invisibility, looking more like a credit card reader [...]

And now your credit card has a built-in keypad

I suppose this is a good idea, although shoppers are loathe to add yet another step to their transactions. The card has a built-in numeric keypad, and when you put in your PIN, it’ll display a security code like the