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Submission + - Microsoft owns up to Xbox Live pretexting

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jcatcw

on Sunday March 25, 2007 @10:28AM

jcatcw writes: "Reports of account theft on Xbox Live have been making the rounds of its member forums since at least December. Microsoft yesterday finally admitted that the service's support staff is at fault — victims of "pretexting." But Microsoft responded only after noted security researcher — Kevin Finisterre of "Month of Apple Bugs" fame — last week went public about how his account was hijacked."

Journal Journal: HBO documentary "Hacking Democracy" DVD is Released 2

Journal by TruthLaser on Saturday March 24, 2007 @09:41PM

The controversial HBO documentary "Hacking Democracy" DVD is released on Tuesday, March 27th, including footage never seen before. Filmed over three years this exposé follows the investigations of Black Box Voting and their team of citizen activists as they take on the electronic voting industry and target the Diebold corporation. The film reveals incendiary evidence from the trash cans of Texas to the ballot boxes of Ohio, exposing secrecy, votes in the trash, hackable software and electi

Submission + - How social search is shaking things up.

Submitted by John stevens on Saturday March 24, 2007 @07:53PM

John stevens writes: Recently, a new search engine 'Younanimous' has been getting alot of attention from bloggers and searchers alike. It functions by taking results from google, msn and yahoo and using the already sorted results, then applying a voting algorithm on top, to further sift through the results. Other notable features are Blacklisting, Alexa and Pagerank per query results and alot more. The question here is- Can you effectively sort through googles existing results and come up with more relative content, or are you just mashing up existing data?

Submission + - Is Google making a cell phone?

Submitted by Kuan Yew on Tuesday March 06, 2007 @11:44AM

Kuan Yew writes: Two months ago Engadget posted pictures of a device they dubbed the Google Switch, a device that was allegedly co-designed by Google and Samsung. Recently, a technologist-turned-entrepreneur called Simeon Simeonov continued the story by suggesting that Google's acquisition of mobile services like Reqwireless and Skia were further hints of a Google phone in development. The question remains, however, is Google really developing a cell phone or is this all part of the great Google hype machine?

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