Even before I had the chance to download, install and use Firefox 4, Firefox 5 is now available for download. Wow… isn’t that too fast? The reason I did not upgrade my Firefox from 3.6.13 was because there are some add-ons that I need to use, that are critical for my work, that have yet to catch up with the new version of Firefox.

The other day, my friend told me that the add-ons work on Firefox 4. He is keeping tabs for me. But even before I have time to download FF4, the Mozilla website now allows us to download FF5. Bleh… forget it. I am not going to download FF5 because once again, add-ons need time to catch up with the new browser version.

10 Taiwanese caught in a massive online scam syndicate who have made Sabah as their base since May 26th, have been deported from Malaysia to Taiwan on Monday. These ten Taiwanese are part of the total of 37 people arrested in Sabah during an extensive 6-country crack down, including in Thailand, Taiwan, China, Cambodia and Indonesia. The other 27 people who are from China will be deported soon.

According to news report, the modus operandi is that these scammers will use Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) to contact victims, who are mostly Mainland Chinese, and sell them their sob stories, which could, of course, be solved with money.

I wonder why they need to be based in Sabah when they could use VoIP wherever they are. Isn’t the internet global?

The Netherlands is set to be the first country in Europe to make net neutrality a law. This means that smart phone users will be able to use applications on their phones at no extra internet connectivity costs. Think Skype and Fring.

As far as I know, we in Malaysia do not pay extra for those services. We can Fring and Skype all we like, while just paying our 3G subscription. The same goes for using 3G mobile hotspot. Well, I don’t know about other people but my friends and I have been doing so at no extra costs, even when we are subscribed to different telcos in the country.

So does this mean that we are enjoying net neutrality in Malaysia? I hope greed by telcos don’t cause us to regress!

When I first started using an Android powered mobile phone, I read glowing reviews of how Dropbox has made life so easy for users to store their files and move those files from the phone to computer. I wanted to get a Dropbox account as well, but procrastinated. More than six months since changing a new mobile phone, I still didn’t have a Dropbox account.

Well, what a blessing in disguise. Did you know, yesterday, Dropbox users reported that there was a bug that caused Dropbox accounts to be accessible even though the password was wrong! This means that anyone could access all the Dropbox accounts (and files) even though they did not have the actual passwords and just simply typed in whatever comes to mind.

What a glitch! Even though Dropbox says that only a small number of accounts were accessed during that frame of time, trust is already out the window, I believe.

While Malaysian government websites were threatened to be hacked or defaced or DDoS attacked a couple of days ago, the first signs of the “attack” happened hours before the time Anonymous said they will start attacking these sites. in the end, over 90 Malaysian government websites went down, though some were unplugged from the internet to minimize damage.

However, no hacking group has stepped forward to claim victory, and according to Malaysian authorities, most of the hackers are based in Malaysia. I have been following #OperationMalaysia on Twitter through the night and I found it strange that Malaysian web users were supportive of the hacking operations!

Anonymous said that they are hacking because they are against internet censorship in Malaysia, but still why did Malaysians cheer? There are ways to access these blocked sites by proxy easily.