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Twitter is the new youtube!

What? Is shadi going crazy? Hear me out. Think back when YouTube was growing like a weed, and Google snapped it up. Most people (including me) saw this as Google "getting into the video business," and sure, that in fact was one part of the equation. But as we all know, making money from consumer driven video ain't a cakewalk, and hosting that video is really, really expensive. So why did Google really buy YouTube? My answer, which of course looks brilliant given it's 20/20 hindsight: YouTube was a massive search asset.

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How twitter could be a real threat to google

Google's search engine is so dominant that it's hard to imagine how anyone could knock the Mountain View company from its pedestal. And yet if history is any guide, such reigns never last. IBM gave way to Microsoft, which now has been usurped by Google.

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Cloning ePassports – Bypassing Airport Security

The government plans to use ePassports at Immigration and Border Control. The information is electronically read from the Passport and displayed to a Border Control Officer or used by an automated setup. THC has discovered weaknesses in the system to (by)pass the security checks. The detection of fake passport chips does not work. Test setups do not raise alerts when a modified chip is used. This enables an attacker to create a Passport with an altered Picture, Name, DoB, Nationality and other credentials

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As the design is going up, i think it's soon time for the portfolio! #

Welcome to The Blog of an Egyptian Songbird

I am a random consequence of intense unpredictable events. Here happens to be a list of my findings…! So why egyptian songbird? well it all comes from my name Shadi Almosri, which is translated from arabic, Shadi is a songbird and Almosri or “Al-masri” is The Egyptian. Alas i do not follow my namesake and i am neither Egyptian nor a songbird!!

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Ten Questions about Google Chrome

Four years ago, I blogged about rumors that Google was working on a Web browser. I found them intriguing, as anyone would, but no such browser ever appeared, and Google became an enthusiastic Firefox booster. The blogosphere pretty much stopped pondering the possibility of a Google browser, and so did I. But now all has changed...