Cracking Craic*

Sunday, August 26. 2007

A day after a teenager cracks the Apple iPhone lock, more cracking fun...

First......it is already possible to block YouTube Ads - Tubestop. Chris Finke (inventor) notes:

TubeStop is an extension for Mozilla-based Web browsers that disables the autoplay on YouTube videos. This means that you can open multiple YouTube videos in tabs in the background without them all starting to play at once. TubeStop also disables the autoplay on YouTube videos embedded on non-YouTube.com sites (MySpace, for example).

Second....an Australian schoolboy took 30 minutes to crack the new national $84m anti-porn system:

His technique ensures the software's toolbar icon is not deleted, leaving parents under the impression the filter is still working.

He also noted......

"They could get a much better filter for a few million dollars made here rather than paying overseas companies for an ineffective one."

When will they learn......

* Craic - the Irish word for fun / party / etc - pronounced like "crack" funnily enough.

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