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Submission + - 700mb of Media Defender e-mails leaked (torrentfreak.com)

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Lonin
Lonin writes: "It appears Media Defender, the company behind the supposed honeypot trap video sharing website MiiVi.com, and friend to the MPAA, is going to have a very bad week. Some 700mb of e-mails, some as recent as September '07, were leaked onto the net and are being uploaded to various torrent sites as we speak. The e-mails have only been skimmed so far, but it appears to show the inner workings of a company dedicated to lying and entrapping people in the name of copyright. This should be interesting."
Power

Submission + - Inflatable, Affordable Electric Car (pesn.com) 3

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Sterling Allan
Sterling Allan writes: "XP Vehicles(TM) announced on Thursday that it's Whisper(TM) electric car is being developed for online direct ship distribution at sub $5000.00 price-points. This would be the world's first crash-proof, long range, flat-pack vehicle. A baffled pressure tube system provides the supporting and protective structure of the vehicle, making it so safe that the engineers for the Whisper are confident you can drive it off a 25-foot cliff without serious injury to its passengers."
Censorship

Submission + - How to silence free speech silently (washingtonpost.com) 1

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quizzicus
quizzicus writes: "The Washington Post writes today about a sensitive White House document detailing how to screen for, silence, and remove protesters who show up at the President's public appearances. Obtained by an ACLU subpoena in the Rank v. Jenkins case, the Presidential Advance Manual (pdf) lays out strategies such as searching audience members at the door for hidden protest material, strategically placing "rally squads" throughout the crowd to intercept and shout down hecklers, and forcefully removing dissenters who cannot be squelched. The manual advises, however, that staff should "decide if the solution would cause more negative publicity than if the demonstrators were simply left alone.""
Communications

Submission + - Command and Control System for unmanned UAVs

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varmavarun
varmavarun writes: "Hi, I'm working on a command and control system for unmanned UAVs, and ground forces. I need to be able to control 2 ground robots, a UAV, and beacons. Now, each of these platform uses the BASIC Stamp 2.0. I wish to use 802.11b for my communications, and I basically wanted to know if it was possible to link up the BASIC stamp on each platform to a laptop using wi fi. Is it possible? If so, is any other hardware required?"
Security

Submission + - Point and click Gmail hacking at Black Hat (tgdaily.com)

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not5150
not5150 writes: "Using Gmail or most other webmail programs over an unsecured access points just got a bit more dangerous. At Black Hat, Robert Graham, CEO of errata security, showed how to capture and clone session cookies. He even hijacked a shocked attendee's Gmail account in the middle of his Black Hat speech."
United States

Submission + - Forensics Expert says Al-Qaeda Images Altered

Submitted by WerewolfOfVulcan
WerewolfOfVulcan writes: Wired reports that researcher Neal Krawetz revealed some veeeeeery interesting things about the Al-Qaeda images that our government loves to show off.

From the article: "Krawetz was also able to determine that the writing on the banner behind al-Zawahiri's head was added to the image afterward. In the second picture above showing the results of the error level analysis, the light clusters on the image indicate areas of the image that were added or changed. The subtitles and logos in the upper right and lower left corners (IntelCenter is an organization that monitors terrorist activity and As-Sahab is the video production branch of al Qaeda) were all added at the same time, while the banner writing was added at a different time, likely around the same time that al-Zawahiri was added, Krawetz says." Why would Al-Qaeda add an IntelCenter logo to their video? Why would IntelCenter add an Al-Qaeda logo? Methinks we have bigger fish to fry than Gonzo and his fired attorneys... }:-) The article contains links to Krawetz's presentation and the source code he used to analyze the photos.
Software

Submission + - a real telemarketer filter

Submitted by hate-those-telemarketers
hate-those-telemarketers writes: I just had one of those telemarketers call me despite being on the do-not-call list. There's still organizations that don't need to adhere to that list. Having googled the caller-id I came accross http://www.whocalled.us/ that seems to be a very comprehensive database of annoying caller-id's calling. What's even better is that in the "about" tab there's a script for asterisk to check all calls against that database. This is like a IP-list for spammers only for real telephony. Fantastic. I've implemented this and now I wish I weren't on the do-not-call list to see telemarketers deal with the very annoying Telemarket torture script that can be found on this site: http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+Telema rketer+Torture woo-hoo!!!
Privacy

Submission + - Do Not Call Registry gets wake-up call (networkworld.com) 2

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coondoggie
coondoggie writes: "If you signed up for the federal or your state's Do Not Call Registry a few years ago, you might want to thing about refreshing it. Pennsylvanians this week got a wake up call, so to speak from the state's Attorney General Tom Corbett who kicked off a public awareness campaign designed to remind people what many have forgotten or never knew — that the 2002 law set registrations to expire after five years. That is of course unless you want to start hearing from those telemarketers as you sit down to dinner. Corbett said about 2 million people signed up in the immediate aftermath of the law taking effect and those who do not act by Sept. 15 will have their numbers dropped from the registry on Nov. 1. The Pennsylvania action is a reminder that the National Do Not Call Registry has a five year life span as well. The Federal Trade Commission is set to being a nation campaign in Spring 2008 to remind all US citizens to refresh their federal Do Not Call Registry standing. http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/18066"
Announcements

Submission + - Automotive X-Prize Reveals First 31 Teams

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The Automotive XPRIZE announced yesterday the first 31 teams to have signed on for the competition to build 100 mpge (mile-per-gallon equivalent) automobiles. The list contains obvious contenders like electric bike vendor ZAP, electric truck peddler Phoenix Motorcars, Munich's überefficient Loremmo AG, and Elon Musk-backed Tesla Motors as well as Cornell University and a laundry list of other less well known names. There's even a team commited to an Open Source-like license. Notable is the total absence of any established manufacturer. Contrary to expectations of a Big Auto win, could the AXP be up for grabs?
Technology (Apple)

Submission + - Apple fanboys send death threat to Mac worm author

Submitted by StonyandCher
StonyandCher writes: The beef over news of a worm targeting Macs, and the identity of the researcher who claimed to have created the malware, took an even stranger turn Wednesday as death threats were allegedly posted to his or her blog, which was then reportedly hacked.

In a posting, InfoSec listed comments he refused to allow to be posted to the blog. Including this gem:

"I dare you to demonstrate this at Defcon you ***** Microsoftie. We will drag you out, put a bullet in you, and bury your body so deep it will take a nuclear blast to find your body." — Anonymous
Communications

Submission + - Mobile Ownership in the UK is 90% by Age 12 (eqo.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: There is an amazing figure on mobile use among youth cited in a report out of the UK. Is this figure even believable? I wouldn't have even thought 90% of parents would have the economic means to provide a phone to their kids.
Wireless Networking

Submission + - Nursing home uses WiFi tags to track old people

Submitted by StonyandCher
StonyandCher writes: PresCare, an aged-care provider in Queensland Australia, has implemented a RFID solution to monitor the location of its residents within its 38 bed complex.

From the article: "Residents wear rugged, waterproof RFID tags in the form of necklaces, or a removable or fixed wristbands which send alerts to networked phones, staff hand-held devices, and video monitors when abnormalities are detected, such as dementia residents leaving the premises, or if the tag's distress button is pushed."

The new solution can be configured to trigger alerts based on rules like off-limit zones, or a lack of patient movement over a set time period.
Education

Submission + - 12 IT skills that employers can't say no to

Submitted by StonyandCher
StonyandCher writes: Have you spoken with a high-tech recruiter or professor of computer science lately? According to observers across the country, the technology skills shortage that pundits were talking about a year ago is real.

The market for IT talent is hot, but only if you have the right skills. If you want to be part of the wave, take a look at what eight experts — including recruiters, curriculum developers, computer science professors and other industry observers — say are the hottest skills of the near future.
Privacy

Submission + - Web-based Anonymizer Discontinued

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RobertB-DC
RobertB-DC writes: "With no fanfare, and apparently no outcry from the privacy community, Anonymizer Inc. discontinued its web-based Private Surfing service effective June 20, 2007. No reason was given, either on the Anonymizer web site or on founder Lance Cottrell's privacy blog. Private Surfing customers are now required to download a anonymizing client that handles all TCP traffic, but the program is Windows-only (with Vista support still a work-in-progress). And of course it's closed-source, which means it has few advantages over several other alternatives."
Windows

Submission + - New $298 Wal-Mart PC with OO.org, no crapware (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by cristarol
cristarol writes: Wal-Mart has begun selling a $298 Everex IMPACT GC3502 PC. It comes with Windows Vista Home Basic and OpenOffice.org 2.2, as well as a complete lack of crapware: 'Users accustomed to being bombarded with trialware offers and seeing their would-be pristine Windows desktops littered with shortcuts to AOL and other applications will likely be pleased at their absence from the GC3502. "In creating the eco-friendly GC3602, our main focus was to build a no-compromise, back-to-school PC with all the software applications a typical student would require, without resorting to bundling frivolous trial versions or increasing prices 30 percent," said Everex product manager Eugene Chang.' The hardware is nothing to write home about: a 1.5GHz Via C7 with 1GB of RAM and integrated graphics, but as Ars points out, it should be more than capable of performing basic tasks.

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