Whats wrong with exploding laptop batteries, installing rootkits, forcing the removal of advertized functionality, suing kids in basements for the horrible crime of sending sony games from Hong Kong to Europe and the US, and then topping it off by loosing the credit card details for all people who are paying for this five-star treatment?

After it was discovered that Sony was installing rootkits on people's machines, Mr Thomas Hesse, president of Sony BMG's global digital business said, "Most people I think don't even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it?"

They are just taking the same approach to Security, since they don't know what it is, why care about it?

Remember Dmitry Sklyarov?

Make a new facebook profile and call it "nobody", then when you dislike something you can click the "Like" button with the "nobody" profile, and it will say "Nobody Likes This"

Interesting, we really have different views on tax. I don't enjoy paying them, being in the highest income-tax bracket in my country (not hard to accomplish, trust me, not making millions) I sometimes think about how much better it'd be if I paid less taxes.

However, I survive on the amount I have left after I pay my taxes. I may not be in the category of richest people but I feel that health care, infrastructure, police, ambulance and so on, are services worth paying for. Why should I pay more (in %) then someone who makes less, well, because the money is needed, and where will it come from otherwise? There certainly are things I want, like a better car and a bigger house, but really, what I have now is not bad.

I believe in two basic things, freedom and helping those that cannot provide for themselves.
I do not believe that everyone has the same opportunities in life, even if my country provides free education (including uni) to all it's citizens.

I pay taxes because I think that free education should be the foundation of any country, I pay them because I think health care should be free for everyone. You shouldn't have to die of a disease because you cannot afford the healthcare, and I believe in helping those who come from countries that require help (I seem to be a minority in Europe having this opinion these days).

I fear that compassion is become rare, it seems to be gone from politics, and especially when talking about taxes. The debate now is often focused on cost, how much immigration costs, how much does free health care cost... rarely do I read debates asking how many lives were saved because we have free health care or because we let people from countries that are at war stay in ours.

No

Bradley E. Manning should get this price, he is the real hero. He put his life on the line to release this information, what did Assange risk?
Manning was held naked in a prison cell without windows for 23 hours a day, Assange won't even go to Sweden to face the charges for sex-crimes (not even after being assured he will not be sent to any other country without britains concent).

and the US has a legal system based on the idea that people are innocent until proven guilty.

Funny, before coming to slashdot I was reading NYTimes, about an afghan farmer being imprisoned for a few years because he had a pair of binocular on him.

Personally I run my own email-server, its not very expensive and you get full control of a domain. Now with all the virtual servers in-the-cloud, the entrycost is next to none, and you get a domain that you control. There are still some good ones out there up-for-grabs.
This way, at least communication between the people on the mailserver cannot be traced (of course, encrypt traffic to and from the mailserver).

If there are people outside this you are communicating with, then email encryption is probably the only resonable way. Same goes for IM, on the MAC I use Adium that can do encryption.

I'm sure there are people who has other suggestions but I do all of the above, and it works not only for me but also my wife, parents and sibblings, who care very little for computer security. Giving them an email address that has firstname@lastname.domain is something they found positive, and getting them to use Adium wasn't that hard as its an all-in-one-client. The security wasn't the selling point which, I think, is the reason I got them to use it.

Just when the cracker thinks they've fixed the game, another one turns up.

One would assume the cracker to change the actual copy-protection check function, always returning true (or whatever number represnts "pass"). Seems like an awful waste of time changing all the places it's called from.

Plus, let's face it, copy protection has been tried in sooo many different ways and forms, and has yet to be implemented so it works. From the color-discs in Monkey Island to the abnormaly large file on whatever that first CD-game was, it's been done before. The only one that seems to work is the one that has game-functionality serverside.

... Or the school could provide the computers pre-loaded with the stuff thats needed, making cheating close to impossible, especially if this clients are used where everything that happens is tracked. Just saing, there are ways to secure computers.

In school they still use pen and paper and learn about stuff thats on wikipedia. True story.

People are stupid -- Dr. House

From TFA: Update: Activision Blizzard has sent a cease and desist notice to YouTube in order to remove the videos showing off the mod. According to various sources, Blizzard's intention is not to stop the project itself, but to protect their properties names, whether they plan to work on a "World of Starcraft" game in the future is anyone's best guess.

The Americans wants to rule the world, the only problem is they can't find it.