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Stories and comments across the archive that link to idirect.com.

Stories · 2

  1. The Slashdot Effect Investigated

    News · Meta · · posted by CmdrTaco · from the stuff-to-read dept. · 32 comments
    Grenamier writes "Stephen Adler analysed his httpd logs after he published some papers and had mentions made of them on Slashdot, freshmeat.org and linuxtoday.org. The results showed a pretty dramatic demonstration of the Slashdot Effect. " Where's the part where servers melt? Anyway, this amused me so I figured I'd share.

  2. GSM phones hacked

    News · News · · posted by CmdrTaco · from the bits-and-bytes dept. · 0 comments
    Christophe Beauregard writes "Funny how the names Ian Golderg and David Wagner keep coming up... Anyhow, a method of cloning GSM phones has been discovered. Someone decided that a 56-bit key on a secret algorithm is enough..." read more at this site.