Short note:

Recently Chris Soghoian – who reached stardom after faking boarding tickets – signaled he has plenty more to offer! In fact I wonder he should consider moving into the comedy business!

"A slightly more laborious method would be to hack the software running on the BlackBerrys and flash the devices with a new serial number. While this is quite possibly a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (which prohibits most forms of phone hacking), it is unlikely that Research In Motion (which makes the BlackBerry) would sue the White House for engaging in such reverse engineering."

Why would the US Government hack the Blackberry firmware when they can simply ask RIM to insert such a simple feature on few of the devices? More important would be the fact RIM is a Canadian organization, rather than an American business.

You don't like DCMA? Fair! But… you know… well… never mind…

Is there anything more embarrassing than coming back from an enterprise content management training with 2 student booklets to which you have no source as PDF? Dear friends, nowadays Microsoft Office comes equipped with a semi-decent OCR software and ADF equipped multi function equipment are bloody cheap. Copying your materials isn't hard so please, save your patrons the trouble of scanning and conducting character recognition and provide them with PDFs!

Instead of trying to "protect" your intellectual property, be smart and promote your brand… Call your marketing dept and tell that your company is trying to reduce its carbon footprint by providing paper free training, find a good excuse, but PLEASE, save us from those horribly looking printed booklets…

The author spent few hours time shifting some training he attended, in other words, feeding his scanner's ADF with double sided pages with presentation printouts.