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Submission + - Net routing system 'based on gossip' (computerworld.com.au)

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angry tapir
angry tapir writes: "IT managers are under threat from routing systems that are providing easy access for fraudsters, the chief scientist of the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC) has claimed. Speaking at the AusCERT conference on the Gold Coast, Geoff Huston said even with the implementation of IPV6, routers are not secure. "How much of today’s routing system is lies?... even with IPV6, this is still a problem," he said."

Comment Re:Misleading Statistics. (Score 1) 638

by blau (#35922078) Attached to: Mac Users More Liberal Than Windows Users

We're trying to slant a news story for a predesired outcome here that conservatives are idiot windows users!!!

You're an idiot. The numbers which GP posted do nothing to disprove this.
Of course there are more liberal PC users. There are twice as many PC users as Mac users.
The numbers for non-liberals are (% of sample population): 33.3% non-liberal PC users and 10.5% non-liberal Mac users.
Japan

Submission + - Japan Raises Nuke Plant crisis severity to "7" (japantoday.com)

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darkonc
darkonc writes: "Early Tuesday in Japan, the government decided to raise the severity level of the accident to the maximum 7 on an international scale, up from the current 5 and matching that of the 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe. The government declared the level 7 emergency because it is now estimated that the crippled plant was emitting over 10,000 terabecquerels of radioactivity for a number of hours at the height of the nuclear incident.

Previously, on Monday, the government had expanded the evacuation zone around the plant to include at least 6 cities up to 60KM away from the plant. These cities, outside of the current 20-30KM evacuation area, are now expected to exceed the 20 millisieverts/year limit on residual radiation established by International Commission on Radiological Protection and the International Atomic Energy Agency in the case of an emergency."
Android

Submission + - Motorola To Ditch Android, Revive ARM Partnership? (itproportal.com)

Submitted by siliconbits
siliconbits writes: It looks as if Motorola Mobility, could be mulling plans to build an alternative to Google's mobile platform. Several independent sources have confirmed that the mobile phone company is working on a web-based mobile operating system to, as one observer put it, have more control on its own destiny. There's another piece in that puzzle; Motorola Mobility could take even more ownership of its destiny by reviving its ARM license as it depends at the moment on TI and Nvidia to provide with the SoCs that power its products; Motorola did produce ARM system on chips in the past.

Submission + - My $200 Laptop Can Beat Your $500 Table (pcworld.com) 2

Submitted by Roblimo
Roblimo writes: Yes, we know tablets like the iPad are the wave of the future and that PCs and laptops are dead. But some of us see tablets as laptops with their keyboards missing and a few hundred bucks tacked onto the price.
Apple

Submission + - Court okays Steve Jobs deposition in iTunes case (edibleapple.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: It seems like forever ago, but it really wasn’t until April 2009 that Apple began offering iTunes downloads free from the shackles of DRM. Prior to that, downloaded songs were only playable on iPods, effectively tying consumers who used iTunes for music downloads to Apple hardware.

Antitrust lawsuits ensued, and while some claims were dropped, the rest were consolidated and rage on. Now, US Magistrate Judge Howard R. Lloyd has given the the prosecution the go-ahead to conduct a limited deposition of Apple CEO Steve Jobs about his role in refusing to license FairPlay to RealNetworks.

Submission + - WikiLeaks cash-for-votes exposé rocks Indian (bbc.co.uk) 1

Submitted by mage7
mage7 writes: While the world's attention seems to be focused on the events unfolding in Japan and the Middle-east, Indian headlines are being dominated by the latest WikiLeaks' revelations.
The newly leaked cable (dated 17 July 2008) suggests that India's ruling Congress party bribed MPs, in order to secure their votes for a controversial nuclear deal between India and the US. Among other details, It describes how a senior Congress aide showed a US embassy official "chests of cash" allegedly containing about $25 million to pay off MPs ahead of the vote. Another Congress insider told a US official about how the Minister of Commerce and Industry formerly "could only offer small planes as bribes.....now he can pay for votes with jets."
Security

Submission + - Cars hacked into by Bluetooth (elektor.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Researchers were able to control everything in a car from the car's brakes to its door locks to its computerized dashboard displays by accessing the onboard computer through GM's OnStar and Ford's Sync, as well as through the Bluetooth connections intended for making hands-free phone calls.

- Could they do it at the cars in queue at the traffic light ?
Botnet

Submission + - Microsoft conducts massive botnet takedown action (wsj.com)

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h4rm0ny
h4rm0ny writes: "Yesterday, Microsoft, in co-operation with Federal agents, conducted what the Wall Street Journal described as "sweeping legal attacks" as they enterered facilities in Kansas City, Scranton, Pa, Denver, Dallas, Chicago, Seattle and and Columbus, Ohio to seize alleged "command and control" machines for the Rustock botnet — described as the largest source of Spam in the World.

The operation is intended to "decapitate" the botnet, preventing the sezied machines from sending orders to suborned PCs around the world."
Security

Submission + - Researchers Say Hijackable Bug Infects 30% Of Webs (forbes.com)

Submitted by embyte
embyte writes: The security world has long seen the Web as a buggy, infected tangle of sites vulnerable to hacks like cross-site scripting and SQL injection. Now a group of researchers has dug into a Web security problem that’s lesser-known and by some measures more dangerous, and they’ve found that it applies to as many as three in ten sites.
The Internet

Submission + - Thai Criminal Court: FTP users are SysAdmins (prachatai.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Having an access to FTP (File Transfer Protocol) service means you are a system administrator, therefore liable for criminal charge for any content presented on the website, whether you are the poster or not — according to Article 15 of Computer-related Crime Act. We learned this from Thai Criminal Court, on a ruling of a web designer of an anti-government political website. He was sentenced to 13 years in jail.

It's so cool to know that web designers who have access to FTP (how can they upload flashy animated GIFs without one?) are now all system administrators. And, according to the ruling's rational, even *anonymous* FTP users can be system administrators. We all now have a free ticket to jail :)
The Courts

Submission + - Copyright Wiretaps are Hollywood's "PATRIOT (arstechnica.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Ars is reporting that the CCIA is calling the copyright wiretaps requested by the IP Czar 'Hollywood's PATRIOT Act'. For those who don't remember, IP Czar Victoria Espinel recently wrote a report calling for more charges of felony copyright infringement under the NET Act, as well as felony charges for illegal web streaming, authorization for the use of wiretaps in going after copyright infringement cases, and several other measures. In short, this means that the copyright cops are coming online.

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