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Submission + - Huawei Tries to Overcome 'Fear of Huawei'

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Documents leaked by former NSA analyst Edward Snowden and published last month suggest that the US government was actually involved in hacking Huawei network equipment in order to spy on China and other countries, including US allies, using Huawei hardware.
Huawei has been working hard to fight the allegations, claiming that security concerns are unfounded and that the company has been caught in a "trade conflict" between the US and China.

Submission + - Android malware is rare, but some choose it deliberately (networkworld.com)

Submitted by smaxp
smaxp writes: Google just released its latest numbers of potentially harmful apps (PHA) installed on Android devices. Based on data from 4 billion app installations, only 0.18% of users go forward with an app installation after being warned that it may be insecure, according to Google. Interestingly, though, that 0.18% includes some very Android-savvy users.

Some people actually embrace PHAs, and their app installs are included in the 0.18% of PHAs. The only way to bypass a locked bootloader or install a custom Android ROM like Cyanogenmod is with a root exploit, which will be detected as a PHA. There are many reasons to run a root exploit on one’s own Android device.

Submission + - Open Source Embroidermodder goes where no embroiderer has gone before (mrxstitch.com)

Submitted by supermatt
supermatt writes: Even Linus Torvalds has had trouble with the proprietary formats of Embroidery machines. Enter Embroidermodder 2, an open source program on Kickstarter to create and edit digital embroidery designs.

Jonathan Greig and Josh Varga launched a Kickstarter for Embroidermodder 2, an open source, cross-platform program to create and edit embroidery designs.

Submission + - Coming Soon to a Restaurant Near You...Things You'd Rather Not See (nypost.com)

Submitted by TchrBabe
TchrBabe writes: So NYC is now considering equipping it's Health Department inspectors with Google Glass to provide a record of restaurant inspections. Will we now have FOIL access to these behind the scenes videos of our favorite restaurants? Do we even want to see what goes on behind the scenes? "Oh look Mabel, isn't that your cat that went missing?"

Submission + - Heartbleed bug affects phones and tablets too (digitaltrends.com)

Submitted by Velcroman1
Velcroman1 writes: The Heartbleed bug is bad and affects a huge portion of all websites — as much as 66 percent of all sites around the world. Unfortunately, your smartphone isn't safe either. The bug can be exploited on mobile devices, though the risks aren’t as great as they are on a desktop computer browsing the Web. Mobile security company Lookout downplayed the risks, saying: “The good news is that we have yet to see any attacks targeting a mobile device, and while this is a credible risk, the likelihood of you encountering an exploit is low.” iOS devices are safe, and Windows Phone OS is likely safe. BlackBerry is “investigating.” But Android is vulnerable if you have version 4.1.1, according to Google.

Submission + - NASA setting up $250,000 Mars lander competition (networkworld.com)

Submitted by coondoggie
coondoggie writes: ASA this week said it is exploring setting up one of its iconic Centennial Challenge competitions for companies to build a robotic Mars landing spacecraft. NASA said it would expect to have about $250,000 worth of prize money for a robotic spacecraft that could land on the Red Planet, retrieve a sample and return it to orbit.

Submission + - IBM Working To Individually Tailor Online Marketing (itworld.com)

Submitted by jfruh
jfruh writes: For most people, IBM still has a staid reputation as a make of mainframes and server software. But Big Blue's push into services is now decades old, and it's acquiring companies and tech that are moving it in some interesting — and creepy — directions. For instance, the company is now working using social media sites, Web usage, email, and other digital signals to craft personalized offers and promotions to individuals.

Submission + - NSA Spied on Human Rights Workers Says Snowden 1

Submitted by Hugh Pickens DOT Com
Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes: The Guardian reports that according to Edward Snowden, the NSA has spied on the staff of prominent human rights organizations like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. "The NSA has specifically targeted either leaders or staff members in a number of civil and non-governmental organisations including domestically within the borders of the United States." Snowden, addressing the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, said he did not believe the NSA was engaged in "nightmare scenarios", such as the active compilation of a list of homosexuals "to round them up and send them into camps". But he did say that the infrastructure allowing this to happen had been built. Snowden made clear that he believed in legitimate intelligence operations but said the NSA should abandon its electronic surveillance of entire civilian populations. Instead, Snowden said, it should go back to the traditional model of eavesdropping against specific targets, such as "North Korea, terrorists, cyber-actors, or anyone else." Snowden also urged members of the Council of Europe to encrypt their personal communications and said that encryption, used properly, could still withstand "brute force attacks" from powerful spy agencies and others. "Properly implemented algorithms backed up by truly random keys of significant length all require more energy to decrypt than exists in the universe

Submission + - Snowden testifies that NSA targeted religious conservatives (rt.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden testified before the Parilimentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
The NSA gathered “explicit sexual material regarding religious conservatives whose political views it disfavored and considered radical for the purpose of exposing it to damage their reputations and discredit them within their communities,” Snowden told PACE.

Comment Re:Not available (Score 1) 641

by lister king of smeg (#46697229) Attached to: Meet the Diehards Who Refuse To Move On From Windows XP

There are several accounting solutions out there, just a quick search found:
http://www.gnucash.org/
http://turbocash.net/
http://frontaccounting.com/wb3...
http://www.sql-ledger.com/
http://ledgersmb.org/

Her is a list of replacements for AutoCAD:
http://blog.cometdocs.com/10-g...

Besides GIMP there is Krita and Cinepaint, and GIMPshop provides a Photoshop like interface. GIMP does have plugins if one needs CMYK. Inkscape does Vector Graphics. Scribus is more of a replacement for Illustrator.

There were some lack of features years ago. The options have matured since then.

and dont forget to throw blender in there for 3d modeling.

Submission + - Tor: If You Want Privacy or Anonymity, Stay Off the Internet This Week (vice.com) 2

Submitted by Daniel_Stuckey
Daniel_Stuckey writes: Security holes are par for the course on the web today, but a new, massive bug dubbed "Heartbleed” is particularly nasty, and widespread: Experts say that two-thirds of websites and nearly everyone that’s used the internet in the last two years could be affected to some extent.

The irony is, the those who have put the most effort into privacy and security are the most vulnerable.

The bug exposes the popular cryptographic software, OpenSSL, a mainstay web encryption. Heartbleed makes it possible for anyone to eavesdrop on encrypted sites and access the sensitive data they’re supposed to be protecting, all without leaving any trace on the site’s server. Even worse, attackers can also retrieve cryptographic keys and passwords and use that info to decrypt any past or future web traffic.

Submission + - Navy creates fuel from sea water (navy.mil) 1

Submitted by lashicd
lashicd writes: Navy researchers at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL),demonstrate proof-of-concept recovery of carbon dioxide (CO2) and hydrogen (H2) from seawater and conversion to a liquid hydrocarbon fuel.

Comment Re:But why do we need the internet of things (Score 1) 163

You'd have to prepare the meal before hand and hope there's only one cooking step.
Fine if you're doing boxed dinners, but useless if you want to actually cook anything.

A smart fridge won't know when milk's gone sour before the date or when yogurt and cheese are still good a month after the date. Nor will they have a way to read the damned date on any of the brands I like. I sure as hell am not typing (or touching, or speaking) that shit in to the fridge. Nor would such a smart fridge need to be connected to the internet

As to it not being able to know what is in it without you manually entering the data have you.ever heard of bar codes? You can put a hell of a lot of stuff in qr codes. As for knowing that something went bad soon just mark it as bad or gone if something isn't bad at experation click the not bad button that adds a week

Comment Re:But why do we need the internet of things (Score 1) 163

What exactly are the upsides of having my fridge, toaster, microwave oven, sock drawer or fork connected to the internet?

Well a smart oven can be set to cook your meal when you hit a button on an app before you head home. A smart fridge can keep track of what food you have when it expires what you use then compile meal plans and grocery lists add to it a link to your smart bathroom scale, and smart shoes to measue the amount of physical activity you have throughout the day and it it opens up dynamic dieting meal plans. A houses light and sound system could detect what room you are in and turn on and off lights and speakers as you enter/leave. Given time I could come up with more applications but those were just the first ones to pop into my head.

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