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Submission + - LulzSec Carries The Deceptive Duo Torch (techzwn.com)

Submitted by jjp9999
jjp9999 writes: The campaign of cyberattacks launched by hacker group LulzSec is accomplishing what The Deceptive Duo was trying to do. The group was wreaking havoc on government websites in 2002, defacing and stealing vital information from critical sources including the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command and the Office of Secretary Defense. Their goal, however, was to force the government to close vulnerabilities before a malicious hacker got to them. In their statement today, LulzSec noted a similar effect to their attacks, pointing out that while they are making a lot of enemies, they are simply doing what countless hackers have already done, but making it public. In the process, they are exposing a system riddled with vulnerabilities.
The Internet

Submission + - ICANN to allow .brandname top-level domains (reuters.com)

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AndyAndyAndyAndy
AndyAndyAndyAndy writes: "Brand owners will soon be able to operate their own parts of the Web — such as .apple, .coke or .marlboro — if the biggest shake-up yet in how Internet domains are awarded is approved.
After years of preparation and wrangling, ICANN, the body that coordinates Internet names, is expected to approve the move at a special board meeting in Singapore on Monday.
Today, just 22 generic top-level domains (gTLDs) exist -- .com, .org and .info are a few examples — plus about 250 country-level domains like .uk or .cn. After the change, several hundred new gTLDs are expected to come into existence.
The move is seen as a big opportunity for brands to gain more control over their online presence and send visitors more directly to parts of their sites — and a danger for those who fail to take advantage."
Google

Submission + - Mozilla rejects WebP image format, Google adds it (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by icebraining
icebraining writes: Ars Technica looks at the recent rejection of WebP by the Mozilla Developer Joe Drew. "Building mainstream support for a new media format is challenging, especially when the advantages are ambiguous. WebM was attractive to some browser vendors because its royalty-free license arguably solved a real-world problem. According to critics, the advantages of WebP are illusory and don't offer sufficient advantages over JPEG to justify adoption of the new format. (...) "As the WebP image format exists currently, I won't accept a patch for it. If and when that changes, I'll happily re-evaluate my decision!" wrote Mozilla developer Joe Drew in a Bugzilla comment."

Submission + - Trolling climate change deniers amidst tragedies (washingtonpost.com) 2

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AndyAndyAndyAndy
AndyAndyAndyAndy writes: "Bill McKibben is a staunch proponent of doing something, anything about climate change and preserving the environment. He also found a way to get an extremely facetious op-ed article published in the NYT today.

In short, his work sums up each of the various natural calamities that have besieged the US this year, brushing each off as "isolated, unpredictable, discrete events." He concludes, "It’s very important to stay calm. If you got upset about any of this, you might forget how important it is not to disrupt the record profits of our fossil fuel companies."

As someone well-versed in the perils of climate change, I hate to see this kind of attitude toward the subject. It opens up reasonableness and scientific fact to counter-trolling and discounting of the very real and very important message."

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