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Submission + - Open Source Drugs

Submitted by citfor on Tuesday April 17, 2007 @10:08AM

citfor writes: An article by the BBC about the low availability of HIV drugs got me thinking, "We have open source software. Why couldn't we have open source drugs?" We've heard complaints about the drug companies being greedy. We've also heard celebrities say they want to commit resources to AIDS in Africa, Parkinsons, etc. I'd like to hear from the Slashdot community, greedy companies trying to interfere aside, is this technically feasible?

Submission + - Third Annual Underhanded C Contest now Online

Submitted by

Xcott Craver

on Tuesday April 17, 2007 @10:03AM

Xcott Craver writes: "The Underhanded C Contest (new site!) is a security contest to write simple, readable, innocent-looking C programs that conceal malicious behavior. This year's challenge is to write an encryption/decryption program that produces weak ciphertext some small percentage of the time. As always, the goal is writing malicious code that looks perfectly innocent under informal inspection of the source. The prize is a gift certificate to ThinkGeek."

Submission + - Browser based cryptography is coming of age

Submitted by

Marco Barulli

on Tuesday April 17, 2007 @08:41AM

Marco Barulli writes: "A Javascript library of cryptographic primitives has been recently released by Clipperz under a BSD license. The Clipperz Crypto Library presently includes the following algorithms: SRP authentication protocol, SHA2 hash functions, AES symmetric encryption and Fortuna PRNG. Clipperz launched an online password manager to promote the "zero-knowledge" paradigm for web applications. A new breed of web apps where the provider is simply in charge of delivering the Ajax application to the user's browser and then storing user's data in an encrypted form on its servers. Users can submit confidential information into their browsers, but data are locally encrypted by the browser itself before being uploaded. This paradigm could be used for a wide range of applications: a personal finance manager, a confidential to-do list, patient records for physicians, ... Is the world ready for browser based cryptography? Can we trust "zero-knowledge" applications?"

Submission + - Bill Gates Memo on using ACPI against Linux

Submitted by Ariastis on Friday April 13, 2007 @08:12AM

Ariastis writes: Bill Gates, in an internal memo, explained how he saw in ACPI an option to go against Linux in his traditional monopolistic way (PDF Warning) Currently used as an element of proof in an antitrust trial.

Submission + - Hold Your Wee for a Wii Contestant Dies

Submitted by

theodp

on Sunday January 14, 2007 @01:27PM

theodp writes: "A 28-year-old woman found dead hours after taking part in a radio station's water drinking contest died of water intoxication, the Sacramento coroner's office said. The winner of KDND (ironically, The END) 107.9's Hold Your Wee for a Wii contest was promised a Nintendo Wii video game system."

Submission + - Do today's quiet SFF computers support GNU/Linux?

Submitted by traderwill on Saturday January 13, 2007 @09:01PM

traderwill writes: I'm an older man who got into the Linux/FOSS "hobby" well into my retirement 10 years ago.
I like it but it's time to upgrade my original desktop tower with a completely new system.
The process has been frustrating because the local stores don't sell Linux systems, and I'm having trouble finding the right answer online. After a week, my questions at the different hardware forums are basically unanswered. I like the modern day SFF computers because they're very quiet and easy to move for long weekends and trips. I just want a computer like that with all the expected ports (USB, Parallel, Card Reader), CD/DVD drive, good sound. Even Linux-supported systems turn out to have no support for onboard sound, etc. Why is this turning out to be an impossible task? Can anyone suggest a model or a Linux-friendly SFF vendor? Whatever it is has to be supported 100% by GNU/Linux/FOSS, of course.

Submission + - One Dweeb's Phishing Trip

Submitted by

sharkscott

on Saturday January 13, 2007 @04:35PM

sharkscott writes: "An LXer reader shared his experiences in tracking down just exectly where a phishing e-mail came from.

"On January 11th, I received an email to my Yahoo! account with the subject "Activate Your Account Now". The sender was "service@paypal.com". The gist of the HTML email was that my account with PayPal would be terminated if I didn't act now to re-activate it. I don't have an account with PayPal, so it was obviously a phishing email with me as one of the targeted phish. Normally, I simply ignore this sort of email, because they are so lame.

But this one was different — in examining the email, most of the links actually linked back to paypal. Except one. http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/78391/index.h tml"

Submission + - Beryl Project hacked

Submitted by Thos on Saturday January 13, 2007 @09:42AM

Thos writes: On January 2nd, 2007 Beryl was the victim of an online attack directed at our MySQL server. This attack removed most entries for the past several weeks and will cost countless hours in repair and recovery. Logs of the attack have been salvaged and analyzed, and the likely origin of the attack identified. More info here.

Submission + - Apple sued over "iPhone"

Submitted by chalkyj on Thursday January 11, 2007 @05:40AM

chalkyj writes: The BBC are reporting that Apple are being sued by Cisco who claim to own the rights to the "iPhone" trademark.

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