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Submission + - Wikileaks to publish remaining Afghan documents (google.com) 1

Submitted by Albanach
Albanach writes: WikiLeaks spokesman Julian Assange has been quoted by the Associated Press as stating "the organization is preparing to release the remaining secret Afghan war documents". According to Assange, they are halfway through processing the remaining 15,000 files as they 'comb through' the files to ensure lives are not placed at risk.

Submission + - Poll

Submitted by lirel
lirel writes: Have you ever tried an SQL-Injection?

No

Yes, bit with no success

Yeah! with little success '-)

alert("just some XSS") lately

%20barAnswer=-1'/**/UNioN/**/Select/**/1,2,3,ConCat(db.auth.login,0x3A,db.auth.password),5%20--

cowboyn:832cae184c7b7c14436c0515adbaed75:xy
Science

Submission + - First discovery by an @Home project (sciencemag.org)

Submitted by pq
pq writes: In a paper published today in Science, astronomers are reporting the discovery of a radio pulsar in data acquired at the world's largest radio telescope and analyzed by hundreds of thousands of volunteers in 192 countries for the Einstein@Home project. This is the first scientific discovery by a distributed computing project, and specific credit is being given to Chris and Helen Colvin of Ames, Iowa, and Daniel Gebhardt of Germany. More at MSNBC etc.
Microsoft

Submission + - New Hotmail clashes with fellow Microsoft products (infoworld.com)

Submitted by tsamsoniw
tsamsoniw writes: Hotmail users have inundated the Microsoft support forums with complaints about the new version of Hotmail, and Microsoft has created a summary page of fixes to the most commonly reported issues. A theme among these fixes: Turn off a particular Microsoft product or feature, be it Internet Explorer, Web-based Messenger, or the High Contrast display in Windows 7. Oh — and the Microsoft Live Team is working on all these issues.
Privacy

Submission + - Android Market, Breeding Ground for Mobile Malware (securityweek.com)

Submitted by wiredmikey
wiredmikey writes: Mobile Virus Authors Expected to see Android Systems as a Growing Target

Google's Android mobile OS has been declared the fastest growing mobile platform according to recent reports, with over 160,000 Android devices being activated every day. This astronomical growth is credited to a friendly user interface and openness of the platform. Approximately 18,600 Android-based applications were created in July 2010 alone.

However, Android's openness has turned its online app store, Android Market, into a breeding ground for malicious applications capable of stealing sensitive user information from the mobile phones.
Businesses

Submission + - Delta opens "ticket window" on Facebook (skunkpost.com)

Submitted by crimeandpunishment
crimeandpunishment writes: Forget using Facebook to promote ticket sales....Delta Airlines is now using the site to sell tickets. Delta has become the first airline to allow customers to reserve flights on Facebook. The airline plans to expand the ticket window to other sites. This move comes on the heels of a redesign of Delta's own site earlier this week.
Iphone

Submission + - Jailbroken iPhone Exploit Code Goes Public (computerworld.com)

Submitted by CWmike
CWmike writes: Minutes after Apple issued an iOS security update on Wednesday, the maker of a 10-day-old jailbreak exploit released code that others could put to use hijacking iPhones, iPod Touches and iPads. 'Comex,' the developer of JailbreakMe 2.0, posted the source code for the hacks that leverages two vulnerabilities in iOS and allows iPhone owners to install unauthorized apps.
Programming

Submission + - The Risks of Entering Programming Prizes (infoworld.com)

Submitted by
snydeq
snydeq writes: "Fatal Exception's Neil McAllister warns developers of the hidden risks of entering programming prizes, which are on the rise since NetFlix awared $1 million to BellKor's Pragmatic Chaos in 2009. 'Web and software companies offer prizes for a variety of reasons. Chief among them is simply to raise awareness, interest, and participation in a given software platform or service,' McAllister writes. But the practice of offering and entering software prizes is not without concerns. Privacy implications, class-action lawsuits — many of the prizes leave participants vulnerable to prosecution. Worse is the possibility of handing hard work over to a company without reward. 'Contests like the Netflix Prize are sponsored by commercial entities that stand to profit from the innovations produced by the entrants. Those who participate invest valuable time toward winning the prize, but if they fail to meet the deadline (or to produce the leading results) their efforts could go completely unrewarded. Depending on the terms of the contest, however, the sponsor might still be able to make use of the runners-up's innovations — which, of course, would be a whole lot cheaper than hiring developers.'"
Idle

Submission + - Rupert Murdoch claims to own the "Sky" in "Skype" (independent.co.uk) 1

Submitted by Crudely_Indecent
Crudely_Indecent writes: Not content to own just the news stories, Rupert Murdoch is now going after individual words!

Rupert Murdoch’s BSkyB is fighting a legal battle with the internet telecommunications pioneer Skype, claiming that it owns the “Sky” in “Skype”.
Privacy

Submission + - Senate Bill Allows Govt to Collect Personal Info (cnsnews.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: "Senate Democrats united to pass a financial regulatory bill that allows the government to collect data on any person operating in financial markets at any level, including the collection of personal transaction records from local banks, including customer's addresses and ATM receipts." ... "The bill, if it becomes law, will create the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection and empower it to 'gather information and activities of persons operating in consumer financial markets,' including the names and addresses of account holders, ATM and other transaction records, and the amount of money kept in each customer's account."

Comment Sound of .... (Score 1) 154

by Dark Coder (#32296514) Attached to: Facebook, Others Giving User Private Data To Advertisers

There's a sad sort of leaking
From Facebook on your wall
And the info on your profile, too
And out to the advertise
An absurd little Zuckerburg... See More
Is popping out to say boo-hoo
(boo-hoo, boo-hoo)

boo-hoo Regretfully they tell us
boo-hoo But firmly they compel us
to be a dumb fuck
boo-hoo
To you

So long, farewell
Auf Wiedersehen, goodnight
I hate to go and leave this pretty site

(Children)
So long, farewell
Auf Wiedersehen, adieu
(Zuckerburg)
What's new, what's new
To you and you and you

(chorus)
Who care, farewell
Au revoir, Auf Weidersehen

I'd like to stay
And play my first farmville
(talking to my boss) yes?
(boss) no!

(chorus)
So long, farewell
Auf Weidersehen, goodbye

I leave and heave
A sigh and say goodbye
Goodbye

I'm glad to go
I cannot tell a lie

I flit, I float
I fleetly flee, I fly

Your Privacy's gone
Back to Reality, so must I

(chorus)So long, farewell
Auf Weidersehen, goodbye
Goodbye
Goodbye
Goodbye

Goodbye

Submission + - ImageLogr Scrapes "Billions" of Images Illegally (thomashawk.com) 1

Submitted by PurpleCarrot
PurpleCarrot writes: In what must be one of the largest attempts to scrape images from the web, the site ImageLogr.com "claims to be scraping the entire 'free web' and seems to have hit Flickr especially hard, copying full-sized images of yours and mine to their own servers where they are hosting them without any attribution or links back to the original image in violation of all available licenses on Flickr." The site even contains the option to directly download images that ImageLogr has scraped. What makes this endeavor so amazing is that this isn't a case of "other people gave us millions of infringing images, help us remove the wrong one's" but one of "we took all the images on the webz, if we got one of yours, oops!" The former gets some protection from the DMCA, whereas the latter is blatant infringement. The site has caused a flurry of activity and has since shut off its site, being replaced with the following message: "Imagelogr.com is currently offline as we are improving the website. Due to copyright issues we are now changing some stuff around to make people happy. Please check back soon."

Submission + - Friday Freebies: Mafia Wars (goozernation.com)

Submitted by averyzoe
averyzoe writes: If you're on Facebook, chances are you've heard of Mafia Wars. Chances are also good you've hidden the incessant notifications from all your friends, asking for bodyguards and gifts and various other items. As annoying as all that can be, if you haven't given Mafia Wars a chance, you're missing out. This extremely popular game won a Webby Award in 2009 and has nearly 26 million accounts on Facebook alone. And guess what? It's not just on Facebook. Zynga, the company behind Mafia Wars and other popular games such as Farmville and Petville, also offers MAfia Wars on Sonico, Myspace, Yahoo!, and even has an iphone app.
Patents

Submission + - Are Trade Secrets and Trademarks the Future? (computerworlduk.com)

Submitted by Glyn Moody
Glyn Moody writes: The Internet's perfect copying machine makes the ideas behind copyright — now in its 301st year — largely irrelevant today: once a copy is online somewhere, it's impossible to take it down everywhere. Could the arrival of low-cost, high-quality desktop 3D printers do the same for patents, by enabling anyone to download and print off analogue objects? With copyright and patents nullified, what might manufacturing companies turn to in order to fight back against these perfect counterfeit versions? How about trade secrets and trademarks?

Comment Re: brilliant and dangerous? (Score 2, Interesting) 1134

by Dark Coder (#27212527) Attached to: Are Quirky Developers Brilliant Or Dangerous?

Try hiring ANY decent coder that works with my former boss's highly impossible deadlines.

I'm with previous parents. A good fire extinguisher (Asperger's) is handy to have. Deadline gets met, even though the end-result (support and maintenance) sucks.

Most start-ups are in it for a quick and lucrative exit strategy (post IPO-sale).

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