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Real-LIfe Distributed-Snooping Web Game To Launch In Britain 419

Posted by timothy from the no-room-for-abuse-there dept.
corerunner writes "A new internet game is about to be launched which allows 'super snooper' players to plug into the nation's CCTV cameras and report on members of the public committing crimes. The 'Internet Eyes' service involves players scouring thousands of CCTV cameras installed in shops, businesses and town centres across Britain looking for law-breakers. Players who help catch the most criminals each month will win cash prizes up to £1,000."

Comment Re:Bricked Consoles? (Score 1) 438

by Amnenth (#29672385) Attached to: Sony Sued Over Bricked PS3s

That's pretty handy, actually. Still I'd rather not update mine until the update itself has a zero chance of bricking my unit. Even if it IS free, that's time where the wii itself is left unusable. (And I'm far from the only person who wants to use this one in particular.)
The Courts

US Wants UK Hacker To Pay To Fix Holes He Exposed 403

Posted by kdawson from the on-second-thought-make-it-a-kryptonite dept.
bossanovalithium writes "Gary McKinnon, whose tribulations we have followed for several years now, is the UK hacker trying to escape extradition to the US. It appears he is expected to foot the bill for the US Government patching holes his breaching uncovered — to the tune of $700,000. It's not really the norm for someone to pay for exploits to be patched — damages fixed, yes, but this is a very different thing." The article paraphrases Eugene Spafford as saying that the victim of a cybercrime should not take the blame. "If someone broke a door to rob a store, he said, it was usual to charge them the cost of the door." Isn't the McKinnon case more like charging him to buy the lock that had been missing when he walked in?
Security

Submission + - Major Advertising Network Compromised (google.com) 1

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An anonymous reader writes: EyeWonder, a major advertising network, appears to have been compromised today. Its website currently states that it is "down for maintenance", and Google is currently classifying all eyewonder.com search results as being harmful. Both Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome use Google's malware detection service, so users of these browsers may encounter malware warnings on a variety of websites that use EyeWonder.
Cellphones

Submission + - GPS-Located, Scannable Coupons Coming To iPhone (hothardware.com) 1

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MojoKid
MojoKid writes: "Njection who already provides speed trap alerts on the iPhone via a free app, is launching a new GPS-based coupon service in July. Basically just drive by or enter a store with a deal and the coupon will show up in the app via GPS location services. The cashier can then scan the barcode directly from the iPhone screen to give the discount. The Njection app is free, so say goodbye to newspaper insert flyers. NMobile also claims to be developing the app for Windows Mobile, Android, Blackberry and Palm devices."

Comment Re:DRM (Score 1) 649

by Amnenth (#27435691) Attached to: Obamas Give Queen Elizabeth an iPod

Although you'd have to use twice as much disk to do it, you can both sync the content to the iPod and store a second copy of everything in a sensible directory structure that could be easily copied off to a new machine, as well.

And yes, there are tools to retrieve things from the libraries of non-iPhone/iTouch 'pods as well, though I don't know any myself.

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