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Criminal Charges Filed Against AT&T iPad Attacker 122

Posted by CmdrTaco from the someone-will-be-sad dept.
Batblue writes "The US Department of Justice will file criminal charges against the alleged attackers who copied personal information from the AT&T network of approximately 120,000 iPad users, the US Attorney's Office, District of New Jersey announced Monday. Daniel Spitler will be charged in US District Court in New Jersey with one count of conspiracy to access a computer without authorization and one count of fraud. Andrew Auernheimer will be charged with the same counts at the US Western District Court of Arkansas, which is in Fayetteville. Auernheimer made headlines last June when he discovered that AT&T's website was disclosing the e-mail addresses and the unique ICC-ID numbers of multiple iPad owners. Claiming that he wanted to help AT&T improve its security, he wrote a computer script to extract the data from AT&T and then went public with the information. AT&T said that nobody from Auernheimer's hacking group contacted them about the flaw."
Sci-Fi

Texas Supreme Court Cites Mr. Spock 345

Posted by samzenpus from the logical-ruling dept.
An anonymous reader writes "We always knew that Spock was wise and would probably make a pretty good judge, so perhaps it's a good thing to see the Texas Supreme Court citing Spock in a recent ruling, noting his wisdom in stating that 'the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.'"

Comment Can you hear that? (Score 5, Interesting) 200

by Torinir (#33696094) Attached to: UK Anti-Piracy Firm E-mails Reveal Cavalier Attitude Toward Legal Threats
It's the sound of the copyright lobby having another heart attack.

When will the governments of the world finally say "Enough is enough" to these clowns?

It's not like all this litigation and threats are profitable or anything. I believe /. had an article on the fact that RIAA spent $16m to recover $391,000 in 2008. It was worse in 2007, when they spent $21m and only recovered $516,000. I know it's been all over the place at various points. Add in the frivolous lawsuits, DDoS attacks and harassment of uninvolved individuals, and the whole copyright lobby looks like an organized crime syndicate.
The Almighty Buck

UK Anti-Piracy Firm E-mails Reveal Cavalier Attitude Toward Legal Threats 200

Posted by timothy from the who-would-have-thought dept.
Khyber writes "A recent DDoS attack against a UK-based anti-pirating firm, ACS:Law, has resulted in a large backup archive of the server contents being made available for download, [and this archive] is now being hosted by the Pirate Bay. Within this archive are e-mails from Andrew Crossley basically admitting that he is running a scam job, sending out thousands of frivolous legal threats on the premise that a percentage pay up immediately to avoid legal hassles."

Submission + - Modern Warfare 2 shock: No servers or mods for PC (on.net) 2

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Call of Duty community manager Rob Bowling, also known as 'fourzerotwo', has confirmed in a podcast that the PC version of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 will not support user-created mods. Worse, it will not support dedicated servers. PC gamers will have to suffer peer-to-peer connections, just like their console-owning cousins.

Mr. Bowling could offer no defence for this move, and simply stated that: "The team's focusing on having it very equal on every platform" and "We're doing a lot of work on the back end."

Previous PC versions of CoD have supported dedicated servers. Their absence will apparently make the game "much more accessible to the PC community as a whole."

You can listen to the podcast here; skip forward to around the 1:41 mark for the awful truth...

Check out our follow up story here, where Dice throws its two cents into the debate, as well as details about how you can have your say.

Petition: http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?dedis4mw

Comment IW/Activision are shooting themselves in the foot. (Score 1) 1

by Torinir (#29790993) Attached to: Infinity Ward Sells Out
No dedicated server = dead game.

It didn't work for Pariah and it didn't work for OFP:DR, so what makes IW/Activision think it'll work for them?!?

By the way, this has hit just about every gaming news site and it's been almost a total uproar by the PC gaming community. Almost 50k people have signed a petition in under 48 hours, and many have followed through by canceling their preorders for CoD:MW2 for PC.

Submission + - Infinity Ward Sells Out (couchcampus.com) 1

Submitted by Phaethon360
Phaethon360 writes: Infinity Ward's community manager, Robert Bowling (aka FourZeroTwo) dropped a bomb on PC gamers this weekend. He revealed Infinity Ward's intentions to take total control of the PC community with their new matchmaking service, IWNet. The message was clear: there won't be dedicated servers in Modern Warfare 2.
Medicine

Submission + - Quebec doctors want euthenasia legalized. (www.cbc.ca)

Submitted by
tomhudson
tomhudson writes: "Earlier today, the Quebec federation of medical specialists released a poll that found that, not only did 75% of all doctors want euthanasia legalized, but that the vast majority of specialists already practice it.

"The president of the federation of medical specialists, Dr. Gaetan Barrette, said doctors already see some form of euthanasia in the course of their work. "Eighty one per cent of doctors do see the practice of euthanasia given the circumstances in their practice," Barrette said. "They hear their patients, they see their patients, asking for it."

Barrette says the debate over euthanasia is similar to the one 20 years surrounding legal access to abortion. A recent Angus Reid poll found that 77 per cent of Quebecers support the move to legalize euthanasia.

In TV interviews, Barrette said that the most frequent request by families currently is cessation of treatment and the administration of lots of sedatives. Seeing as this has been going on for at least 20 years, we really do need to put in a legal framework that protects both the doctor and the patient."

Submission + - SPAM: GM recalls 10'119 Pontiac Vibes due cold wather br

Submitted by SBRFC
SBRFC writes: Although Pontiac now is officially dead, GM still is recalling 10'119 Pontiac Vibe hatchback due cold winter brake Issues. Brake vacuum components may freeze in very low temperatures. Those 10'119 Vibes currently are registered in 19 northern states.

Vibes in warmer states are no recalled, because they are enough hot.

Toyota Matrix could be recalled too, which was built on same platform with Vibe.
Link to Original Source
Privacy

Submission + - Avoid Messy Breakups by Locking Down Your Web Life (lifehacker.com)

Submitted by SciNye
SciNye writes: Seeing your just-separated ex with a new fling on Facebook? Painful. Seeing that they've run through your Gmail? Devastating. Ars Technica suggests a well-considered checklist of changes to make to your online accounts in the wake of a severed relationship.
Games

Submission + - "Buy the game for whatever you think it's worth" (kotaku.com)

Submitted by ropak
ropak writes: I'm happy to forward news about what indie video game development company, 2D Boy, announced on kotaku today:
"World of Goo turns one-year-old today, and 2D Boy celebrates by letting you buy the PC, Mac, and Linux version of the game for whatever you think it's worth — even a penny!"
I'm going to buy it (linux version of course!) when 2dboy.com will be online again, how about you?

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