Earlier today the Danish embassy (Swedish embassy is in the same building) was set on fire in Syria ( Damascus ) after cartoons featuring the Prophet Mohammad was printed. Recently the Norwegian embassy (about six kilometer away) was set on fire as well.

The cartoons were originally printed in a Norwegian Christian conservative magazine by the name of “Magazinet”. Earlier this week a video of the editor of the said magazine being assassinated started spreading on the Internet.

One of the cartoons show the Prophet Mohammad with a turban resembling a bomb, have caused uproar across the Muslim world. While most would react by sending a letter to the editor, it has broken into an international situation. This reaction provoke me to print one of the images in question.

I disagree with what you say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it.
- Voltaire

Update: 18:24
The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs ask Norwegians to leave Syria.

Update: 23:37
The Norwegian embassy flag was burned, the embassy plundered, and the Norwegian ministry of Foreign Affairs consider breaking diplomatic relations with Syria.

(Photo provided by Reuters)

Update: 5th Februrary 21:06

Update: 6th February 10:35

You have no idea how many times I’ve been asked to fix people’s computers. Thankfully I’ve gotten a great majority of my friends and family over to either Mac with OS X or using GNU/Linux. I’ve also created the website secure-my-internet.com that I direct people to for a guide for small cleanups.

This comic strip hit the spot. The problem with, amongst other things SPAM isn’t the senders themselves, but the fact that people make it profitable for the sender.

As stated on secure-my-internet.com:
“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.”
- Albert Einstein

SPAM, as well as email security is a social problem. Even if security software was distributed and configured by a third party for free, as long as the user isn’t aware (or caring) about its usage, it will be easy to obtain through other means.

I have written several posts on this subject prior to this, and I’m glad to see that the folks at UserFrendly agree to http://www.kfwebs.net/news/312/User+responsibility and http://www.kfwebs.net/news/315/Followup+on+user+security a debate I had going with Brad