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Submission + - South Korean police raids Google's office (oneindia.in)

Submitted by qwerty8ytrewq
qwerty8ytrewq writes: On Tuesday, Aug 10, Korean National Police Agency raided the office and seized hard drives and other documents related to data collected using Street View Cars.
"We have been investigating Google Korea on suspicion of unauthorized collection and storage of data on unspecified internet users from wi-fi networks," reported Korean National Police Agency in a statement.
Software

Submission + - The future of the web without Flash - will it be f (opera.com) 4

Submitted by AuxLV
AuxLV writes: We've seen a lot of great HTML5 demos and now many people believe that HTML5 is our savior from Flash and will make our browsing faster and more pleasant once all the lagging Flash banners disappear. The problem? Banners themselves won't disappear — they will become HTML5-powered. And today you can get your web-future-sneak-peek fix. While HTML5 is great it will not auto-magically save us from lame banner creators and performance issues.

Comment 8.7 of 10 stars. that track needs camber though! (Score 1) 90

by qwerty8ytrewq (#33148502) Attached to: <em>Wipeout</em> Recreated With an RC Car
the track desperately needs

camber

then the cart could really stick to the corners and crank some speed. this thing has heaps of potential. especially as the karts could have weapons, speed control, be modded like crazy. and the whole thing could be run o'er the good ol' net... Arr, I predict some underground gambling to be done. screw rooster fighting, this is the next big thing. my kart is going to be made from epoxy lego for sure! respect to the work and spirit of fun that has gone in there! the wharehouse site is very cool too.

Submission + - Google banned my /. email. (google.com) 1

Submitted by Odetta2012
Odetta2012 writes: This weekend, Gmail locked me out of my Odetta2012 account.I went to Google Help, who stated with no additional explanation that this email had been disabled.
Google did allow me to tell my side of it: The Odetta account exists mainly as a repository for IT digests. And Odetta is the email that allows me to blog here.
There is nothing remotely non-TOS about Odetta, but Google states that it doesn't have to have any reason to deactivate any person's account.
I have nine units of college classes starting in three weeks, all in CSIT. All students are being assigned a special gmail through the school. If someone at Google has a bad day, having the approved email cut off without warning might hurt one's grade.

Comment This proves the stars are not evenly distributed? (Score 2, Interesting) 119

by qwerty8ytrewq (#33099998) Attached to: Antarctic Experiment Finds Puzzling Distribution of Cosmic Rays
As far as I can tell from reading the article, this proves that cosmic rays distribution does not follow a truly random pattern as they hit earth. Given that these rays originate from stars/nova/events and these events are not randomly distributed in the universe, why is this a surprise? I can only guess someone has theorised that if the universe is infinitely big, then the cosmic ray distribution should tend towards perfect (infinite) randomness. Can anyone shed light on the theory that this finding is diproving? links? This could also prove that the earth is travelling fast through rays, so it impacts more in the direction it moves, presumably the scientists have allowed for this too....
Cellphones

Submission + - Hacker builds $1,500 cell-phone tapping device (wired.com)

Submitted by suraj.sun
suraj.sun writes: A security researcher created a $1,500 cell phone base station kit (including a laptop and two RF antennas) that tricks cell phones into routing their outbound calls through his device, allowing someone to intercept even encrypted calls in the clear. Most of the price is for the laptop he used to operate the system.

The device tricks the phones into disabling encryption and records call details and content before they are routed on their proper way through voice-over-IP.

The low-cost, home-brewed device, developed by researcher Chris Paget, mimics more expensive devices already used by intelligence and law enforcement agencies — called IMSI catchers — that can capture phone ID data and content. The devices essentially spoof a legitimate GSM tower and entice cell phones to send them data by emitting a signal that's stronger than legitimate towers in the area.

Encrypted calls are not protected from interception because the rogue tower can simply turn it off. Although the GSM specifications say that a phone should pop up a warning when it connects to a station that does not have encryption, SIM cards disable that setting so that alerts are not displayed. Even though the GSM spec requires it, this is a deliberate choice on the cell phone makers, Paget said.

Wired: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/07/intercepting-cell-phone-calls/
Encryption

Submission + - Wikileaks uploads encrypted insurance file (wikileaks.org)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: It looks like the threats for Wikileaks and its founder(s) are serious. They have uploaded a encrypted file called "insurance file" in their Afghan War Diary page.

Submission + - Verizon Changing Users Router Passwords 2

Submitted by
Kohenkatz
Kohenkatz writes: "I have Verizon FIOS at home and my Verizon-supplied Actiontec router had the password "password1" that the tech assigned to it when he set it up three years ago. I received an email from Verizon that said "we have identified that your router still had a password of either password1 or admin1 and we have changed it to your serial number." I checked and it actually had been changed. I believe this to be in response to the Black Hat presentation (http://it.slashdot.org/story/10/07/16/122259/Millions-of-Home-Routers-Are-Hackable) about the hackability of home routers. I am upset about this because Verizon should not have any way to get into my router and change the settings, especially because I own the router, not them! I looked in the router's settings and I see port 4567 goes to the router and is labeled "Verizon FIOS Service". Is this port for anything useful other than Verizon changing settings on my router? What security measures does Verizon have to protect that port from unauthorized access?"

Comment The reverse-looker factor (Score 2, Informative) 163

by qwerty8ytrewq (#33056802) Attached to: 100 Million Facebook Pages Leaked On Torrent Site
the news here perhaps isthat the marketing script-kiddies now have the data in a form they can go to spam-town with. Not really a leak, but an accessible-format conversion. I look forward to the statistics being crunched in amusing ways... % of "female" people who have the words "sex" and "city" and "2" and "terrible" in their data...98%

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