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Submission + - Nevada Approves Driverless Car Legislation (fellowgeek.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Nevada has successfully managed to get some legislation in place to regulate driverless cars, making them the first state to do so. This is big, big news, as this could be the opening that Google needs to prove its vehicles are safe and reliable.

As this is the first time that driverless car legislation has ever been handled, Nevada had to figure out the specifics for how driverless cars would be regulated. What they have settled on is a bit conservative, but not bad for a first draft, though it does keep driverless vehicles for the rich, at the moment...

Submission + - Teambox goes closed source (teambox.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Starting from Teambox 4 given the huge success of open source, the Teambox team has now closed the source, only time will tell if this was a good strategic move. From the site "Teambox 4 is not available as an open-source download. We believe it would take at least a small team of full time developers and thousands of dollars a month in servers to get it running the way it's meant to run."

a slight contradiction to what one of the main developers Pablo Villalba promised last week on the community site: "The repo for Teambox 3 is still open, but Teambox 4 is a work in progress and we won't open anything until it's stable enough, which is still months away. There will a self-hosted install." http://teambox.com/projects/teambox/conversations/238501
DRM

Submission + - MineCraft Authentication servers trouble preventin

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: MineCraft authentication servers are currently experiencing problems which is preventing users who have premium accounts from logging into online servers. if this is not DRM when it breaks down, then what is it? just a few weeks before the 1.9 release doesn't look good for notch and mojang
Technology

Submission + - China Telecom breaks web apps by preforming MITM 1

Submitted by nihaopaul
nihaopaul writes: During chinese new year which ran the beginning of February China Telecom one of only a handful of Internet providers turn't on their new MITM advertising injection system. This is their second version, however it now interferes with all web traffic over port 80.

the code itself can be seen here: http://pastebin.mozilla.org/1049772

the interesting thing about this code is that the advertising servers are not switched on but in this example we see a hijack of mozilla.com. if you use noscript like i do in firefox this warns you of the attack but is not able to prevent it due to the MITM nature of the attack, if you have a list of sites that are able to bypass noscript and you live in china i suggest removing them for the time being.

Upon phoning china telecom on their hotline number "10000" they try to give you the run around and insist advertising exists on the web and that they are not interfering with the traffic, only once you start to argue with them and go up the food chain do you get somewhere, which they are willing to disable this "service". my questions to them were "why am i paying twice for a service, i pay for it the first time, then you force me to look at your advertisements on my personal sites?" no comment is the response but a technician will follow up..

However the downside is that any web apps pulling data from sites are also being interfered with causing malformed errors.

One operator from china telecom said "i don't see any problems when i'm at home" which i quickly replied to "sure, but you're probably using IE and being that this service hasn't been fully activated yet you wont notice"

The more exposure this gets the more chance that this wont make it past testing
Encryption

Submission + - Freedur VPN client exposes users

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: After investing why Freedur service ceased working inside the great firewall of china today i came across what i believe to be a "kick in the balls", a simple tcpdump reveals that the Freedur service client transmits login details containing identifying information such as email address and account password in clear form which retrieves its connection information. I believe this to be unacceptable for a service that promotes "ANONYMOUS SURFING" and "data ENCRYPTION 128bit" but yet transmit the shared key in plain text. here is what the dump contained http://freedur.pastebin.com/v44XY3A2
Yahoo!

Submission + - Yahoo! Mangles Mail to CNAMES

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An anonymous reader writes: Recently we discovered a flaw in the Yahoo! mail service, a customer reported that he could not deliver his emails to the mailing list or remote administrate them, he forwarded me a copy of the email so i could read the headers and the response error.

he was trying to email a list similar to listname@lists.hisdomain.com so he would send the requests to this but every time they would bounce, yahoo mail returned listname@lists.hisdomain.com as undeliverable. everyone else had no problems from gmail, hotmail, private, public emails just yahoo! i was baffled so i decided to sign up and send a test email. with inspecting the logs it appears that emails were going to listname@hisdomain.com even though they were sent to listname@lists.hisdomain.com and the error messages returned were from the to address.

ok not a problem, lets fire a support question with yahoo!.. well this is where it got interesting, the authentication just kept going in loops requesting me to enter my password over and over and over again to 'prove' i was not a robot.

stick with gmail, they might do evil but at least they work.

Submission + - New server setups proving atypical of the internet

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An anonymous reader writes: have you ever tried to relocate your own servers? i recently relocated my servers out of china to the states, one reason is the shifting internet laws such as what you can and cannot publish and the vague wording such as "media containing poses in a manner that could be sexual" and long delays for business in publishing sites (30day wait period to apply for the required government ICP license) then the forum license, both processes are a huge time consuming activity with 'authoritative' stages that can only be submitted from an IE browser, and, one account per domain! plus the new media distribution license requirements for anything that had moving pictures such as a flash movie or a movie.. as the story goes on, has anyone recently tried to setup a server and found that most emails will get rejected even though your ip addresses are clean, have PTR records for the reverse dns and so on? plenty of companies willing to sell you 'services' that deliver email to xxx sites. i thought i'd have a hard time 8 years ago with dirty Chinese ip addresses, but with US ip addresses its much worse! what steps have you taken and where is the best place to get a good reputation for new mail services?

Comment Re:Pay for Security w/o as much Hassle? (Score 2, Interesting) 75

by nihaopaul (#28556099) Attached to: TSA Asked to Ensure Safety Of Customer Data After Clear Closing

i have to agree, safety is the least of their concern, much more work is done to get into a chinese datacenter unescorted than to pass security at the airports, but this is world wide not just America. security at the airports is for show, many times i've forgotten to empty my bag before flying and found out i've got a multipurpose screwdriver set and once i forgot to take my dive knife out of my carry on. and went through 2 international and one domestic airport.
Mars

Mars Lander Faces Slow Death 212

Posted by Soulskill from the this-lander-will-self-destruct-in-five-months dept.
Riding with Robots writes "It's the beginning of the end for the Phoenix Mars Lander. As winter approaches in the Martian arctic, NASA says it's in a 'race against time and the elements' in its efforts to prolong the robotic spacecraft's life. Starting today, mission managers will begin to gradually shut the lander's systems down, hoping to conserve dwindling solar power and thereby extend the remaining systems' useful life. 'Originally scheduled to last 90 days, Phoenix has completed a fifth month of exploration in the Martian arctic. As expected, with the Martian northern hemisphere shifting from summer to fall, the lander is generating less power due to shorter days and fewer hours of sunlight reaching its solar panels. At the same time, the spacecraft requires more power to run several survival heaters that allow it to operate even as temperatures decline.'"

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