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Internet pioneers win engineering prize
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RMS: The 4 Freedoms
0 run the program for any purpose
1 study the source code and change it
2 make copies and distribute them
3 publish modified versions
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, March 19 2013 @ 04:45 PM EDT |
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, March 19 2013 @ 07:04 PM EDT |
Internet Census 2012
Port scanning /0 using insecure
embedded devices
Abstract While playing around with the Nmap
Scripting Engine (NSE) we discovered an amazing number of open embedded devices
on the Internet. Many of them are based on Linux and allow login to standard
BusyBox with empty or default credentials. We used these devices to build a
distributed port scanner to scan all IPv4 addresses. These scans include service
probes for the most common ports, ICMP ping, reverse DNS and SYN scans. We
analyzed some of the data to get an estimation of the IP address usage.
All data gathered during our research is released into the public
domain for further study.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, March 19 2013 @ 07:33 PM EDT |
With all the attempts of the last few years (at least in the EU) to criminalize
the hacking tools themselves rather then the (unjust) use of them, I was
wordering if they are (or could be) covered by your Second Amendment.
As attacks can now be done at large distance by online-attacks, should the
software tools to retaliate be covered by the same law as tools to defend you
from physical attacks?
According to Wikipedia, the second amendmend applies only to firearms, but I
think I have read discussions that it covers the use of pepper spray, air-rifles
and electric weapons as well.
But the intend behind the law seems to me the ability to retailliate against
longer-distance agressors, and was initiated after they became publicly
availeble and knives no longer fullfilled it's defensive task.
THe would be some similarity in use as well.
As firearms do not have strictly passive defensive capibilities. (IE: You can
not use them without harming the attacker or risk pissible bystanders), nor
range limitations (bullets do not stop at the edge of your backyard.
When-back-hacking someone that tried to crack your machines, you have some of
these same risks; you can accidently hit some of those the attacker is hiding
behind, and you can do damage to his machines.
Also, hacker tools can be uses to ' protect your property against vandalism',
like when DRM is trying to prevent you from using your legal property within
your own home.
MBB
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, March 19 2013 @ 08:23 PM EDT |
Federal authorities are examining Microsoft’s involvement with companies and
individuals that are accused of paying bribes to overseas government officials
in exchange for business, according to a person briefed on the inquiry.
U.S. Said to Look Into Microsoft Bribery
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Authored by: artp on Tuesday, March 19 2013 @ 11:06 PM EDT |
The NY Times has Yet Another Flawed Article about the EA
debacle.
Entitled Electronic
Arts Chief Resigns, Sending Stock
Up, it tells us, with
a straight face,
Retail sales are
falling — they were down more
than a quarter in the first 10 months of last
year — as
consumers took to less demanding, less time-consuming and
less
expensive games on their smartphones.
And later, it says, again
with a straight face and no
disclaimer:
“E.A.’s strategy and
future are rock solid,” Mr. Probst
wrote on Monday in a post on the company’s
blog.
Probst is the CEO before the current resignee, until
another
scapegoat is found.
And finally:
The company blamed
the game’s unforeseen
popularity for its trouble because it overloaded its
servers. It was forced to offer players a free downloadable
game.
“I know
that’s a little contrived — kind of like buying a
present for a friend after
you did something crummy,” Lucy
Bradshaw, the general manager for Maxis, the
game’s
developer and a division of E.A., wrote on the Electronic
Arts
blog.
Who could have known that "unforeseen popularity" would
overload the servers on a beta? My mind is boggled that they
missed the mark
by such a huge margin.
--- Userfriendly on WGA server outage:
When you're chained to an oar you don't think you should go down when the galley
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, March 20 2013 @ 11:51 AM EDT |
"'Someday, and that day may never come,' Don Corleone says famously in The
Godfather, 'I'll call upon you to do a service for me.' Back in 2010, filmmaker
Lesley Chilcott produced Waiting for 'Superman', a controversial documentary
that analyzed the failures of the American public education system, and
presented charter schools as a glimmer of hope, including the Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation-backed KIPP Los Angeles Prep. Gates himself was a 'Superman'
cast member, lamenting how U.S. public schools are producing 'American Idiots'
of no use to high tech firms like Microsoft, forcing them to 'go half-way around
the world to recruit the engineers and programmers they needed.'
So
some found it strange that when Chilcott teamed up with Gates again three years
later to make Code.org's documentary short What Most Schools Don't Teach, kids
from KIPP Empower Academy were called upon to demonstrate that U.S.
schoolchildren are still clueless about what computer programmers do. In a nice
coincidence, the film went viral just as leaders of Google, Microsoft, and
Facebook pressed President Obama and Congress on immigration reform, citing a
dearth of U.S. programming talent. And speaking of coincidences, the lone
teacher in the Code.org film (James, Teacher@Mount View Elementary), whose
classroom was tapped by Code.org as a model for the nation's schools, is Seattle
teacher Jamie Ewing, who took top honors in Microsoft's Partners in Learning
(PiL) U.S. Forum last summer, earning him a spot on PiL's 'Team USA' and the
chance to showcase his project at the Microsoft PiL Global Forum in Prague in
November (82-page Conference Guide).
Ironically, had Ewing stuck to
teaching the kids Scratch programming, as he's shown doing in the Code.org
documentary, Microsoft wouldn't have seen fit to send him to its blowout at
'absolutely amazingly beautiful' Prague Castle. Innovative teaching, at least
according to Microsoft's rules, 'must include the use of one or more Microsoft
technologies.' Fortunately, Ewing's project — described in his MSDN guest blog
post — called for using PowerPoint and Skype. For the curious, here's Microsoft
PiL's vision of what a classroom should be."
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, March 20 2013 @ 11:58 AM EDT |
"Should companies spend money on security awareness training for their
employees? It's a contentious topic, with respected experts on both sides of the
debate. I personally believe that training users in security is generally a
waste of time and that the money can be spent better elsewhere. Moreover, I
believe that our industry's focus on training serves to obscure greater failings
in security design." link [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, March 20 2013 @ 12:12 PM EDT |
"The information security industry is known for Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt.
We are bombarded with depressive statistics and buzzwords on a daily basis and
those can overshadow the real progress that's being made." link [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, March 20 2013 @ 12:51 PM EDT |
Windows phone ad
Fake like a $300 bill :-)
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, March 20 2013 @ 02:39 PM EDT |
Popular press is full of speculation and inuendo over the mass crash in South
Korea. It may take investigators a while to
get to the bottom of it. I think it
would be hilarious if an Equinox bug hit the popular localised version of MS
Windows.
Possibly sane sober comment from
euronews.com.
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- Whois Team? - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, March 20 2013 @ 04:43 PM EDT
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Authored by: SilverWave on Wednesday, March 20 2013 @ 03:48 PM EDT |
Google revives RSS extension for
Chrome
browser
Good, glad it was just a mistake, it made then look really
mean and petty.--- RMS: The 4 Freedoms
0 run the program for any purpose
1 study the source code and change it
2 make copies and distribute them
3 publish modified versions
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Authored by: cjk fossman on Wednesday, March 20 2013 @ 05:34 PM EDT |
Is anyone using the MATE desktop?
I have a machine that's already infested with Unity, Gnome 3 and KDE 4.
Does anyone know of conflicts between any of those and MATE?
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Authored by: Gringo_ on Wednesday, March 20 2013 @ 05:52 PM EDT |
Nvidia
disappointed with Windows RT tablet
sales
As TG Daily previously reported, Microsoft
only
managed to sell a little over a million Surface RT
tablets since the device hit
the market. Indeed, Redmond
reportedly ordered three million Surface RT tablets
last
year, but sales never picked up and Microsoft was forced to
scale back
the order.
The lackluster figures come as no surprise. Earlier this
year it emerged that the RT faced high return rates and very
low sell-through,
with shipments totalling just 900,000
units in the first quarter of sales. The
Surface Pro did not
fare any better. It garnered relatively negative reviews
and
since it is quite a bit pricier than the RT, consumers don’t
seem keen to
make the leap of faith.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, March 20 2013 @ 06:43 PM EDT |
Thunderbolt is (almost) dead. Long live to
Thunderbolt
Then there is the news that developers are
trying to increase the USB 3.0 transfer speeds from 5Gbps to 10Gbps. If this can
be achieved, it will eliminate one of Thunderbolt's key advantages.
What Intel
and Apple should have done, if they wanted the technology to gain any traction,
was to subsidise the early work on Thunderbolt until it had a market presence.
But Apple was too keen to make an outrageous mark up on Thunderbolt peripherals
which only its limited fanbase was stupid enough to pay
for.
Wow!
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, March 21 2013 @ 12:02 AM EDT |
You are being linked to a U.S. based website. Any information you
provide at this website will be maintained in accordance with U.S.
law.
This warning popped onto my screen yesterday when visiting a
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