Rodrigo A. Sepúlveda Schulz

French Connection #8 on LCI Radio

French Connection 08 sélectionné dans Actualité et Blog / High tech

I mentioned stats for online video in the US and in France from Comscore, and argued about online video business models and compared youtube and Dailymotion with hulu.com. I also quickly talked about GoogleVoice.

Pictures are here on Flickr:

Werther, Opera de Paris

Werther, Opera de Paris, originally uploaded by rsepulveda.

Nice

Paris on Sunday, after the Morning rain

Paris on Sunday, after the Morning rain, originally uploaded by rsepulveda.

pix of the day ;)

enjoying JM Hullot's pictures, founder of Fotonauts

En route for Arakan, originally uploaded by jmhullot.

1000 listeners on blip.fm :)

Thanks all for listening !!!

Some stats :
- DJ since Oct 19th, 2008, 1000 listeners on March 6th 2009, hence 4,5 months later !
- 445 props = 44,5% ;)
- 1495 blips, hence about 1,5 blip per listener

French Connection #7 on LCI Radio

French Connection #07: Hadopi, Antennes-Relais, Twitter, et DEMO'09 sélectionné dans Actualité et Blog / High tech

Pix from French Connection #7 show on LCI Radio

security notice for Spotify - great communication btw

Just received this email, although the breach was disclosed on twitter a few hours ago.

"Dear Spotify user,

Last week we were alerted to a group that managed to compromise
our protocols. After investigating we concluded that this group
had gained access to information that could allow testing of a
very large number of passwords, possibly finding the right one.
The information was exposed due to a bug that we discovered and
fixed on December 19th, 2008. Until last week we were unaware
that anyone had had access to our protocols to exploit it.

Along with passwords, registration information such as your email
address,birth date, gender, postal code and billing receipt
details were potentially exposed. Credit card numbers are not
stored by us and were not at risk. All payment data is handled
by a secure 3rd party provider.

If you have an account that was created on or before December 19th 2008,
we strongly suggest that you change your password and strongly
encourage you to change your passwords for any other services
where you use the same password.

When choosing your password we provide you with an indicator of
the password strength to help you choose a good one. To change
your password please visit your profile page on our website.

https://www.spotify.com/en/account/profile/

For the technically minded amongst you, the information that may
have been exposed when our protocols were compromised is the
password hashes. As stated, we never store passwords, and they
have never been sent over the Internet unencrypted, but the
combination of the bug and the group's reverse-engineering of
our encrypted streaming protocol may have given outsiders access
to individual hashes.

The hashes are salted, making attacks using rainbow tables unfeasible.
Short or otherwise bad passwords could still be vulnerable to
offline targeted brute-force or dictionary attacks on individual
users, but you could not run attacks in parallel. Also, there
has been no known breach of our internal systems. A complete user
database has not been leaked, but until December 19th, 2008 it was
possible to access the password hashes of individual users had
you reverse-engineered the Spotify protocol and knew the
username.

We are really sorry about this and hope you accept our apologies.
We're doubling our efforts to keep the systems secure in order
to prevent anything like this from happening again.

Regards,
The Spotify Team"

Sunday in Paris, Le Marais area

Sunday in Paris, Le Marais area, originally uploaded by rsepulveda.

who's she talking to ?