Linked List: May 30, 2008

Friday, 30 May 2008

69 Dick Tard Lane 

Kevin Poulsen scored an interview with the guys who hijacked Comcast’s domain names:

The hackers say the attack began Tuesday, when the pair used a combination of social engineering and a technical hack to get into Comcast’s domain management console at Network Solutions. They declined to detail their technique, but said it relied on a flaw at the Virginia-based domain registrar.

Network Solutions spokeswoman Susan Wade disputes the hackers’ account. “We now know that it was nothing on our end,” she says. “There was no breach in our system or social engineering situation on our end.”

However they got in, the intrusion gave the pair control of over 200 domain names owned by Comcast. They  changed the contact information for one of them, Comcast.net, to Defiant’s e-mail address; for the street address, they used the “Dildo Room” at “69 Dick Tard Lane.”

Hazel 

My thanks to Noodlesoft for sponsoring this week’s DF RSS feed. Hazel is their “personal housekeeping” utility — think of it as sort of a cross between cron and folder actions, with a very slick UI for editing the rules used for moving/sorting/labeling/trashing files and folders. Hazel does for the Finder what Mail’s rules do for email messages. Check out the video tour for screencasts showing Hazel in action.

Hazel costs $22, but through the end of the week, DF readers can save 15 percent with coupon code “DF2008”.

Google’s New Blue Fav Icon 

This is going to take some getting used to.

‘Mobile Me’ Strings in iPhone Beta SDK 

Dmitry Chestnykh finds “Mobile Me” in a few resources in the latest iPhone 2.0 beta SDK.