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Fake Anti-Virus for Android
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 06 2013 @ 09:21 PM EDT
f-secure.com

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I claim credit for this article :)
Authored by: bugstomper on Thursday, June 06 2013 @ 09:22 PM EDT
Just before PJ posted this article I posted a comment to the previous article in
which I said that I was posting it...

"at the bottom of 256 other comments, probably moments before PJ posts a
new article and nobody will ever see this"

I am sure that PJ had no idea that she was going to write another article until
I clicked "Submit Comment" and she suddenly found this article fully
written by her on her screen ready to go :)

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Annoying police a Felony ..
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 01:00 AM EDT
"The New York State Senate passed a controversial bill on Wednesday that aims to classify ‘aggravated harassment of a police officer’ as a crime, but will it give the authorities the green light for strong-arm tactics if passed?"

`Sponsored by Senator Joe Griffo, Bill S.2402 would make it a felony to “harass, annoy, or threaten a police officer while on duty.”' link

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PRISM - U.S. mining data from 9 leading Internet firms; companies deny knowledge
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 01:06 AM EDT
The National Security Agency and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies, extracting audio and video chats, photographs, e-mails, documents, and connection logs that enable analysts to track foreign targets, according to a top-secret document obtained by The Washington Post.

The program, code-named PRISM, has not been made public until now. It may be the first of its kind.

[...]

Like market researchers, but with far more privileged access, collection managers in the NSA’s Special Source Operations group, which oversees the PRISM program, are drawn to the wealth of information about their subjects in online accounts. For much the same reason, civil libertarians and some ordinary users may be troubled by the menu available to analysts who hold the required clearances to “task” the PRISM system.

There has been “continued exponential growth in tasking to Facebook and Skype,” according to the PRISM slides. With a few clicks and an affirmation that the subject is believed to be engaged in terrorism, espionage or nuclear proliferation, an analyst obtains full access to Facebook’s “extensive search and surveillance capabilities against the variety of online social networking services.”

According to a separate “User’s Guide for PRISM Skype Collection,” that service can be monitored for audio when one end of the call is a conventional telephone and for any combination of “audio, video, chat, and file transfers” when Skype users connect by computer alone. Google’s offerings include Gmail, voice and video chat, Google Drive files, photo libraries, and live surveillance of search terms.

Firsthand experience with these systems, and horror at their capabilities, is what drove a career intelligence officer to provide PowerPoint slides about PRISM and supporting materials to The Washington Post in order to expose what he believes to be a gross intrusion on privacy. “They quite literally can watch your ideas form as you type,” the officer said.

Barton Gellman and Laura Poitras, The Washington Post

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Bradley Manning trial transcripts now available online, via crowdfunded stenographers
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 03:39 AM EDT
http://boingboing.net/2013/06/06/bradley-manning-trial- transcri.html

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Groklaw Violates my First Amendment Rights
Authored by: Ian Al on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 04:39 AM EDT
Not that I have any First Amendment rights, of course: I'm not from around here.


Anyway, I have been exercising my right to free speech for years with my sig.
and now, by editorial artifice, I am excluded from OT comments.

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Regards
Ian Al
Software Patents: It's the disclosed functions in the patent, stupid!

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APIs, what are APIs? (musings from last article)
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 06:28 AM EDT
Some examples of things in the same catagory as APIs (distinguished only by not
being on-a-computer)

Turning a screw clockwise makes it go in (unless you're in a small set of
situations involving wheels).
That clock hands go round top->right->bottom->left->top.
The QWERTY keyboard layout.
The accellerator in a car is the small pedal.
Move the top of the steering wheel in the direction you want to turn.
Power buttons have that circle-with-line symbol on them.
Red light means stop, Green light means go.
Hot water is in the red tap.

I could probably go on for pages if I thought harder.


Imagine if anyone did one of those things differently?
How much trouble would it cause?

Exactly.

APIs are also on that list.

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Canada's First World Problems Persist
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 06:33 AM EDT
Some of you may remember when Canada's strategic maple syrup
stash was under attack - after a slow-as-molasses
investigation the Mounties got their man...

Now comes word that Foreign interests are trying to corner
the great Canadian chocolate market.

Court documents unsealed in December, 2007, allege senior
executives at Hershey, Mars and Nestlé met secretly in
coffee shops and restaurants and at industry conventions to
set prices.

Now, SIX years later, criminal charges have been laid for
chocolate price-fixing.

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More MS FUD: IE is more energy efficient than other browsers
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 07:32 AM EDT
Link

Acording to a new Microsoft-sponsored study by the Fraunhofer Center for Sustainable Energy Systems, Internet Explorer consumes less wattage than Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. The study discovered some pretty miniscule changes between each browser when it came to situations like “Average, Top 10 Websites” and “Fishbowl Benchmarks.” However, the introduction of Flash into the test showed a fairly substantial change between browser power consumption, with Internet Explorer consuming approximately 18.6 percent less wattage than Google Chrome.

Remember those MS-sponsored Linux Vs Windows TCO Comparison?

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Fun question for the weekend:
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 01:17 PM EDT
Is the human brain more powerful than a turing machine?

Has anyone done any research into this at all?

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Team 99 is Back!!!
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 03:04 PM EDT
Microsoft is now calling it Reputation Management. The article claims MS have just brought in a huge sweep of SMM managers to handle reputation management for the Xbox One. If you're unfamiliar with reputation management Social media managers doing RM focus on providing positive posts, likes and shares to promote the brand on social media sites and forums - usually posing as the 'happy customer' archetype through a multitude of accounts. In the last year or so, Reddit has become more and more important to an overall RM strategy. It also often involves 'debunking' people who make negative or critical comments about the brand online. I've done this myself for numerous clients before (even on Reddit once, sorry!). It is fairly standard procedure, although usually not so much for huge companies like Microsoft. Click for reddit post . I do trust reddit more than any spin by Microsoft. The new xbox 360 has onerous conditions attached to it.

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Watch for a new war over the API coming up
Authored by: Gringo_ on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 03:32 PM EDT

GamePop console to run iOS apps without using any Apple code

A new TV game console dubbed GamePop will allegedly run iOS applications with virtualization, without using any of Apple's own code, potentially giving developers a new platform on which to offer their titles.

Watch Apple try to sue them into oblivion as soon as they release their product. Watch Apple cry when they lose. This should be excellent entertainment for the whole family. (Seeing them lose, that is.)

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Must read new Prenda order!
Authored by: naka on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 07:25 PM EDT
Found this from Anon E Mouse's comment on an ars article...http://ia601508.us.archive.org/28/items/gov.uscourts. cacd.543744/gov.uscourts.cacd.543744.176.0.pdf

Further, the Prenda parties shall be required to post an additional bond in the amount of $135,933.66 (which is the $237,583.66 total, minus the $101,650.00 bond that the Prenda parties other than Mr. Gibbs have already posted) to cover costs on appeal, which includes attorneys fees since the underlying case is a copyright case.

They have to respond within 7 days... I really like this Judge Wright fellow.

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The Catch-22 of Congressional Oversight
Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 11:41 PM EDT
The leaks regarding NSA ( ironically confirmed by James R. Clapper, Director of National Intelligence ), have led many to wonder what is really going on.

But, even if those responsible for the oversight were actually doing their job, little would be learned. Link

Wonkblog's Ezra Klein writes about a paradox to make Yossarian proud: members of Congress who gain clearance to learn about government spying in order to fulfill their oversight role cannot raise an alarm about government spying because to do so would be to violate the terms of their clearance.

Fortunately, those that don't "get it" are not on the proper committees anyway.

"I'm a Verizon customer," Senator Lindsey Graham said Thursday. "It doesn't bother me one bit for the NSA to have my phone number."

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You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner.

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Of course he doesn't want patent trolls...
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 08 2013 @ 03:54 PM EDT
Of course the president doesn't want patent trolls. He wants a monopoly on
making Google, Apple, and anyone else bend over.

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MS Surface challenger
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 08 2013 @ 10:21 PM EDT
Seen at Computex along with many other mockups and PoCs.
The Verge's update suggests it's business as usual.

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Prism - Accounting fraud?
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 08 2013 @ 11:39 PM EDT
I wonder if the companies participating in Prism are in violation of accounting
standards by not reporting the cost of compliance to this program to
shareholders. I would think that the cost of building and operating the systems
required is non-trivial.

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