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Submission + - Gmail lets you unsend email (tgdaily.com)

Submitted by SpuriousLogic
SpuriousLogic writes: A Google post unveils a new service, "Google Unsend" which allows users to unsend e-mails they don't want delivered within a five second window. Though the product does seem to have more validity than Twitter Premier services April Fool's Day is approaching, so I question the products authenticity. In fact, it has actually given me Déjà vu. Remember "Gmail Custom Time"?
Censorship

Submission + - Aussie blacklist revealed, blocked company pissed (computerworld.com.au) 1

Submitted by
mask.of.sanity
mask.of.sanity writes: "Australia's secretive Internet filter blacklist held by its communications watchdog has been leaked, revealing the government has understated the amount of banned Web pages by more than 1000.

Multiple legitimate businesses and Web sites have been banned including two bus companies, online poker sites, multiple Wikipedia entries, Google and Yahoo group pages, a dental surgery and a tour operator.

Betfair, a billion-dollar business blocked by the blacklist, CEO Andrew Twaits was furious the government has potentially annexed tens of millions of dollars in revenue after its Betfair.com gambling site was blacklisted.

The blacklists were reportedly leaked by a Web filter operator to wikileaks which has published the full list of banned URLs.

Outraged privacy advocates say the government has effectively lied about the amount of URLs included in the blacklists, totalling more than 2300, and the type of content which it would ban.

The leak follows a series attacks on the watchdog in which irate users successfully lobbied for web sites to be banned, only to be threatened with an $11,000 fine for publishing the link contained in the PR response. It was also revealed the watchdog can ban Web sites at a whim, with no accountability."
The Internet

Submission + - Australian ACMA blacklist on Wikileaks

Submitted by
An anonymous reader writes: As reported in the Australian Press, the blacklist compiled by the ACMA seems to have been posted on Wikileaks.

Many Australians have been fiercely opposing the imposition of mandatory ISP level censorship for some time. Please note that many of the sites are not safe to access depending on your location. The list includes Christian sites, a dentist, a tour operator, wikileaks pages, gambling and euthenasia related sites. This follows the leaking of the blacklists from several other countries. There is no confirmation that this is the current blacklist and there is some mention that censorware vendor filter lists may have been included. The list contains 2395 sites. ACMA said its blacklist, as at November 2008 that the list included only 1370 sites.
Censorship

Submission + - Australian secret blacklist leaked 1

Submitted by dysprosia
dysprosia writes: The Australian secret blacklist has been leaked at Wikileaks. There are some "interesting" choices on the list, as the Sydney Morning Herald story suggests, "...about half of the sites on the list are not related to child porn and include a slew of online poker sites, YouTube links, regular gay and straight porn sites, Wikipedia entries, euthanasia sites, websites of fringe religions such as satanic sites, fetish sites, Christian sites, the website of a tour operator and even a Queensland dentist." Not to mention goat.cx, a picture of a suggestive pumpkin...

Comment I don't trust this... (Score 1, Insightful) 119

by XaviorPenguin (#27246921) Attached to: Choruss Pitching Bait and Switch On P2P Music Tax
...as far as I can throw a CD and I can throw one pretty far. I just got to remember where I put mine at, I seemed to have "misplaced" them...WAIT, they are on my computer.

Back to topic. I don't trust this at all. Sure, the EFF is a great group but sometimes they get their ideals all in a mess much like this one. I just hope they aren't getting any monetary value from supporting this claim that it is a "promising new approach."

Either way, it sounds like people will still be sued, just by different individuals.
The Internet

Submission + - Activists use Wikipedia to test Aussie net censors (itnews.com.au)

Submitted by pnorth
pnorth writes: Editors at Wikipedia have removed a link to a blacklisted web site that sat uncontested for over 24 hours in the main body of the Australian regulator's own Wikipedia entry. The link, which directs readers to a site containing graphic imagery of aborted foetuses, was inserted into ACMA's Wikipedia entry by a campaigner against Internet filtering to determine whether Australia's communications regulator had a double-standard when it came to censoring web content. The very same link motivated the regulator to serve Aussie broadband forum Whirlpool's hosting company with a 'link deletion notice' and the threat of an $11,000 fine. Last night, the link became the subject of "warring" between several Wikipedia administrators in the lead up to it's removal, with administrators saying they didn't want to be used to prove a point.
The Internet

Submission + - CP80.org Wants More Pull With ICANN (theregister.co.uk)

Submitted by
dysmey
dysmey writes: "The Register reports that CP80.org, the anti-pornography group led by SCO chairman Ralph Yarro, is petitioning ICANN to permit "the formation of a new 'Cybersafety Constituency'" which, if granted, would pull ICANN into the CP80.org goal of banning pornography from httpd port 80. ICANN has opened the proposal for comments, with the comment period ending April 5th."
Businesses

Submission + - Sun in talks to be acquired by IBM. (nytimes.com)

Submitted by
gandhi_2
gandhi_2 writes: "Sun Microsystems soared in European trading after a report that it was in talks to be acquired by I.B.M.

The Wall Street Journal, quoting "people familiar with the matter," reported Wednesday that International Business Machines was in talks to buy the company for at least $6.5 billion in cash, a premium of more than 100 percent over the company's closing share price Tuesday. Officials of Sun and IBM could not immediately be reached for comment. Story here."
Mozilla

Submission + - Mobile Firefox Hits Beta1 Available for Nokia N810 (gizmodo.com)

Submitted by JagsLive
JagsLive writes: A walkthrough of Fennec (mobile Firefox) beta release 1.The Firefox Mobile, a.k.a. Fennec, just hit Beta 1, and can be downloaded right now for any Nokia N810 internet tablet. No "real" phones can use this yet.

The video above takes you through the walkthrough of Beta 1 and gives you a good roundup of some of the more notable features. The most promising feature in our opinion, just like the best feature on the desktop version of Firefox, is the add-on support. There's already a couple extensions available.

Mozilla : http://www.mozilla.org/projects/fennec/1.0b1/releasenotes/

Gizmodo : http://i.gizmodo.com/5172917/mobile-firefox-hits-beta-1-available-for-nokia-n810
It's funny. Laugh.

Submission + - Flying rocks named after RMS, Torvalds, GNU, Linux (wikipedia.org)

Submitted by
christian.einfeldt
christian.einfeldt writes: "Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, who once referred to the GNU-Linux operating system as a 'cancer' and who might be hoping that Microsoft's recent lawsuit against TomTom might help wipe the GNU-Linux 'cancer' off the face of the Earth, will be chagrined to learn that GNU-Linux has instead been immortalized in the heavens. It turns out that Richard Stallman, Linus Torvalds, GNU, and the Linux kernel have all been acknowledged for their contributions to science by having asteroids named after them. The eponymous asteroids are, respectively, 9882_Stallman, 9793_Torvalds, 9965_GNU, and 9885_Linux."

Comment Dinosaurs, quite possibly... (Score 0) 1038

by XaviorPenguin (#27181141) Attached to: US Adults Fail Basic Science Literacy
To Quote the article:
"...and over 40% think dinosaurs and humans cavorted together like in some sort of 'Land Of The Lost' episode."

If you believe the Bible, which I do, you can see that in Job chapter 40 verses 15 to 24, a possible dinosaur that Job called the behemoth walked with Man and was able to describe what it looked like. Also, in Job 41, the entire Chapter Job talks about the Leviathan. Just a heads up.
Security

Submission + - JBIG2Decode PDF Vulnerability Auto-Exploited (beskerming.com)

Submitted by
SkiifGeek
SkiifGeek writes: "With Adobe's patch for the JBIG2Decode vulnerability due in a few days time, new methods to target the vulnerability have been discovered that make it far riskier than previously thought. Didier Stevens recently showed the world how it is possible to exploit the vulnerability without the user actually opening an affected file, now he has discovered a way that allows for completely automated exploitation that results in anything up to a Local System account without any user interaction at all and only relies upon basic Windows components and Acrobat Reader elements.

There are some mitigating factors that limit the overall risk of this new discovery, but it does also highlight that merely uninstalling the Reader will not protect you from exploitation and does raise the possibility that other tools will access the vulnerable components and thus be vectors for attack."

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