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Bill Would Require ISPs, Wi-Fi Users To Keep Logs 857

Posted by kdawson on Friday February 20, 2009 @09:44AM from the boon-for-disk-makers dept.

suraj.sun notes CNet reporting on bills filed in the US House and Senate that would require all ISPs and operators of Wi-Fi hotspots — including home users — to maintain access logs for 2 years to aid in law enforcement. The bills were filed by Republicans, but the article notes that the idea of forcing data retention has been popular on both sides of the aisle over the years. "Republican politicians on Thursday called for a sweeping new federal law that... would impose unprecedented data retention requirements on a broad swath of Internet access providers and is certain to draw fire from businesses and privacy advocates. ... Each [bill] contains the same language: 'A provider of an electronic communication service or remote computing service shall retain for a period of at least two years all records or other information pertaining to the identity of a user of a temporarily assigned network address the service assigns to that user [i.e., DHCP].'"

Collided Satellite Debris Coming Down? 155

Posted by kdawson on Sunday February 15, 2009 @09:08PM from the boom-crash dept.

Jamie found this Bad Astronomy blog on the many reports beginning about 7 hours ago of one or more fireballs in the sky across Texas. That blog's proprietor first doubted that the phenomena could be due to the satellites that collided in orbit last week, but later left the possibility open. The National Weather Service for Jackson, KY put out an announcement about possible explosions and earthquakes across the area and blamed the defunct satellites. "These pieces of debris have been causing sonic booms...resulting in the vibrations being felt by some residents...as well as flashes of light across the sky. The cloud of debris is likely the result of the recent in orbit collision of two satellites on Tuesday...February 10th when Kosmos 2251 crashed into Iridium 33." An Austin TV station has more reports.

Submission + - Pirate Bay - Pirate Bus En Route

Submitted by

IDOXLR8

on Saturday February 14, 2009 @10:48AM

IDOXLR8 writes: "The Harvard Law students defending accused file-swapper Joel Tenenbaum are doing their best to turn his upcoming trial into a media event, but when it comes to pure spectacle, they have nothing on The Pirate Bay. They are referring to the event as a "spectrial," a combination of "spectacle" and "trial." They have also set up a site where you can track their current location, complete with journal entries. The trial begins next Monday and comes complete with a live audio feed and Twitter translations."

Submission + - Falling into the Vista Trap

Submitted by iB1 on Friday March 02, 2007 @06:45AM

iB1 writes: Business editor of the BBC Tim Weber has an interesting tale of woe about his experience of upgrading from XP to Vista. Although it appears that the initial upgrade went without a hitch, it was the frustrating realisation that a substantial number of his peripherals did not and would never work with Vista that tipped him over the edge.

Submission + - Is Vista a trap?

Submitted by logube on Friday March 02, 2007 @06:23AM

logube writes: BBC has an article about installing Vista in your existing desktop. Written by Tim Weber, a self-confessed "sucker for technology", this article is a good introduction to the pain and extra money required to get on the latest product of the evil empire. See how you can spend an extra 130 british pounds, and still have no working webcam!

Submission + - Vista activation cracked by brute force

Submitted by Bengt on Friday March 02, 2007 @05:27AM

Bengt writes: The Inquirer has a story about a brute force Vista key activation crack.

From TFA: The crack is a glorified guesser, and with the speed of modern PCs and the number of outstanding keys, the 25-digit serials are within range. The biggest problem for MS? If this gets widespread, and I hope it will, people will start activating legit keys that are owned by other people.

There is really no differentiating between a legit copy with a manually typed in wrong key and a hack attempt. Sure MS can throttle this by limiting key attempts to one a minute or so on new software, but the older variants are already burnt to disk. The cat is out of the bag. The crack was first mentioned on the Keznews forums, a step by step How-to can be found HERE

Submission + - Linux users get Windows-free Dell & Lenovo lap

Submitted by

wehe

on Friday March 02, 2007 @04:42AM

wehe writes: "Two leading hardware vendors, Dell and Lenovo, are quietly selling laptops without preloaded Microsoft Windows to Linux customers who know where to look, says Lincoln Durey, CEO of EmperorLinux, an Atlanta reseller that customises, installs and supports Linux on the major-brand laptops it sells."

Comment National ID Cards (Score 2, Interesting) 1083

by IDOXLR8 on Friday May 06, 2005 @04:56PM (#12456782) Attached to: U.S. National Identity Cards All But Law

I'm one of the older /.'s that hardly post. I'm, appalled that the government that we elected is willing/going to ignore our constitutional right to privacy just to justify their short comings. Bush F***ed up and took our sons and daughters into a war that we should not be in. I know that my Karma will go down for posting this but... His(Bush) reason for invading Iraq was to rid them of MWD(Mass weapons of destructions) and therefore protecting us Americans from some sort of world domination scheme that... If you stand back and take an open minded look at the entire situation(Bush's Iraq War / Why are we targets for terrorists(Google It)) you might... and I say might...see how the USA is becoming exactly what we are at war for. Ok The Senate passes a bill... A bullshit bill... Do we have the same rights as we had before 9/11? Just because we have a shitty President does that mean that we have to rewrite the constitution? BTW Yes I'm one of the older /.'s and I live on Social Security and No... I do not want my right to privacy to be violated... The United States Of ... What Now?

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