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Today’s economic crisis doesn’t seem to have reached the 769 high school students polled in Piper Jaffray’s 16th bi-annual survey of teenage buying patterns and preferences.

The survey, conducted at several apparently well-heeled high schools in the United States over the past few weeks — while the global financial markets were melting down — focused on MP3 players, online music and Apple’s (AAPL) iPhone.

The results, released late Tuesday, may say more about the demographics of the population Piper Jaffray is testing than the buying power of most U.S. teenagers, but they will be music to Steve Jobs’s ears. According to senior research analyst Gene Munster, who directed the study:

• 8% own iPhones, up from from 6% in Spring 2008.
• 22% of students surveyed expect to buy an iPhone in the next 6 months, up from 9% in Spring 2008.
• Of students expecting to buy a mobile phone, 33% specified an iPhone.
• iPod market share rose to 84% from 82% in Fall 2007.
• Of the 40% of students who legally purchase music online, 93% said they use iTunes (up from 79% in Fall 2007).

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A popular free security tool for the Firefox browser has been upgraded to block one of the most dangerous and troubling security problems facing the Web today. NoScript is a small application that integrates into Firefox. It blocks scripts in programming languages such as javascript and Java from executing on untrusted Web pages. The scripts could be used to launch an attack on a PC.
The latest release of NoScript, version 1.8.2.1, will stop so-called "clickjacking," where a person browsing the Web clicks on a malicious, invisible link without realizing it, said Giorgio Maone, an Italian security researcher who wrote and maintains the program. Clickjacking has been known for several years but is drawing attention again after two security researchers, Robert Hansen and Jeremiah Grossman, warned last month of new scenarios that could compromise a person’s privacy or even worse, steal money from a bank account.

Download: NoScript 1.8.2.1
View: The full story @ PCWorld