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Acelabs S3 touchscreen PMP actually plays useful formats

We’re beginning to see some more interesting PMPs out of China lately, like this white number out of Acelabs that’s listed as the S3 even though it’s marked “Handy.” The 0.4-inch thick device features a 2.8-inch QVGA touchscreen, 8GB of microSD-expandable storage and pretty decent codec support including MPEG4, VOB, WMV, and, randomly, Real. Most impressive, however, is the slick-looking touch interface, which actually looks well thought-out for once. No word on whether we’ll ever see these over here, as usual, but encouraging nonetheless.

Mackanapes can now can feel the pain of the fake media codec

Mackanapes (sorry, my coined word) have always acted more than slightly superior to PC users.
Well, consider the fake media codec — a plague on on Windows PCs these days. Almost always on porn sites, it lures you with something that looks like this:

or this:

And so on.

Well, it’s come to the Mac. One variant of the fake Codec, DNSChanger, is now being seen on Mac porn. From Intego:

A malicious Trojan Horse has been found on several pornography web sites, claiming to install a video codec necessary to view free pornographic videos on Macs. A great deal of spam has been posted to many Mac forums, in an attempt to lead users to these sites. When the users arrive on one of the web sites, they see still photos from reputed porn videos, and if they click on the stills, thinking they can view the videos, they arrive on a web page that says the following:

Quicktime Player is unable to play movie file.
Please click here to download new version of codec.

After the page loads, a disk image (.dmg) file automatically downloads to the user’s Mac. If the user has checked Open “Safe” Files After Downloading in Safari’s General preferences (or similar settings in other browsers), the disk image will mount, and the installer package it contains will launch Installer. If not, and the user wishes to install this codec, they double-click the disk image to mount it, then double-click the package file, named install.pkg.

If the user then proceeds with installation, the Trojan horse installs; installation requires an administrator’s password, which grants the Trojan horse full root privileges. No video codec is installed, and if the user returns to the web site, they will simply come to the same page and receive a new download.

Is this just childlike schadenfreude on my part? You tell me. For years, we’ve heard snorts of derision from Mac users about the poor security of PCs. Yet that supercilious attitude (as we know from our history books) is patently dangerous, because it creates a false sense of security. Now, Mac users will need to be a bit more careful out there (‘cause when Joey wants his pr0n, he wants it now!). On the heels of the poorly-secured release of Leopard, we now find that there is no perfect protection against human stupidity social engineering, even for a Mac user.

(Disclaimer: We have a Mac at the house among our many computers. I like Macs. I just don’t care much for an attitude of high self-importance.)

China Restores Access To YouTube

I’m not sure if Halloween is widely celebrated in China, but it seems the government nonetheless chose that day to present their citizens with a gift: access to YouTube.

Of course, this is the same government that was responsible for them not having access for the previous couple of weeks, so the kindness of this act is debatable.  Also, we haven’t forgotten that the government fiddled with properties owned by Yahoo and Microsoft, as well.

Still, users in China generally seem grateful for YouTube’s reappearance.  And hopeful that it will remain accessible.  Richard Brubaker, who runs the All Roads Lead To China site, writes, “Now, would everyone please play fair with the Net Nanny, we can all continue to enjoy our favorite Youtube movies without the use of an annoying proxy server.”

That’s assuming that some other source doesn’t change the government’s mind, though; we still don’t know what caused the most recent round of trouble.  The U.S. government’s relationship with the Dalai Lama may have been behind it, or the tipping point could have been YouTube’s launch of a Chinese-language version.

In any event, people in China can - for the time being - take a look at all the spooky videos they please.

http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2007/11/01/china-restores-access-to-youtube