A new year brings in a new set of security notes. The government can use a "one seed and 3 hops" strategy to get millions of individuals' telephone records. This is 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon in action. The official PHP website was cracked. I'd be surprised, but they probably wrote the site in PHP…
Top thirty crime procedurals, #29: Homicide: Life on the Street
IMDB link. Basic premise: Gritty police drama, set in Baltimore. Why it's here: A startling array of great characters, that I only realized when I looked at that IMDB entry. Detective Munch, played by Richard Belzer, was essentially transplanted to Law and Order: SVU with absolutely no change in character. It worked really well. Why it isn't…