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LiveJournal Says Users are Responsible for Content of Links 283

Many of you might remember the previous story about LiveJournal erroneously deleting hundreds of users as suspected paedophiles, spurred on by pressure from the group, Warriors for innocence. Since then, they've been taking action against users hosting material on their servers that they believe to be illegal. Today, LiveJournal management have demonstrated a serious lack of understanding in how the internet works, declaring that users are responsible for the content of the webpages that they link to in their blog entries. A user points out the obvious flaw: "I get ToS'd because the link's been redirected to a page full o' porn, even though context clearly shows that when I originally put up the link that it didn't actually land on a page of porn?" One wonders how such a long-established blogging company can be so ignorant about the nature of the world wide web.
Communications

Submission + - Nokia to replace 43 Million Batteries (bbc.co.uk)

mysqlbytes writes: According to a recent post on the BBC's website, Nokia has admitted to a problem in the BL-5C batteries made by Matsushita between December 2005 and November 2006. For some of us, it means longer battery life with a new lease of life. And for some of us, no more burnt legs :) See the article here, and you can check out the product advisory here: https://www.nokia.com/batteryreplacement/en/
Slashdot.org

Journal Journal: Microsoft AntiSpyware (BETA) quality...

An interesting article on adawarereport.com raises the question: How many people out there actually rely upon Microsoft AntiSpyware to keep their system safe? Personally on a daily basis i have seen quite a number of Trojans and other little critters slip unnoticed. So i end up using multiple scanners to pick up everything i can. A plethora such as adaware and spybot search and destroy might keep you
Operating Systems

Journal Journal: Sentinix abandoned

The Sentinix project has been abandoned. A very promising project run by Michel Blomgren of the Tigerteam.se. For you who have never heard of it, it was an all in one security and mail package in one, for mail it had: postfix spamassasin and mailscanner to name but a few and for monitoring it had: Nagios, Nagat, Snort, SnortCenter, ACID, Cacti, RRDTool, Nessus. I'll be sad to see this go, maybe someone could inherit it...
OS X

Journal Journal: Viruses for OS X

Mac users are secure in their environment for one main reason, they aren't running a Microsoft product! Most of the viruses are written to attack M$ products because like the rest of us they have a built up hatred to someone who can churn out bad software and have people buy it because they 'don't have a choice'. Mac's are based on BSD, in itself its secure. I'm sure security vunerabilites do exist but virus writers have an easier task exploiting something which every other virus writter out the

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