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  • xkcd: Wikipedia is my brain [pic]

    Like many, I am a huge fan of the xkcd comic.  It speaks to my inner geek more than any other comic I have read.  Well, they posted a comic today that is funny because it is very true.  I used to be a wealth of useless facts but ever since I realized that the…

  • Interview with the creators of the first PC virus [video]

    Computer security company FSecure recently traveled to Pakistan to sit down and have the first on camera interview with the creators of Brain, the first PC virus.   Brothers Amjad Farooq Alvi and Basit Farooq Alvi created the boot sector virus known as Brain which was transfered from computer to computer via floppy disks.  The…