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Comment Re:Transparent Aluminum... (Score 1) 265

by mc_secular on Tuesday June 24, 2008 @11:09AM (#23917287) Attached to: Bizarre Properties of Glass Allow Creation of "Metallic Glass"

Also, there has been recent progress towards creating aluminum salts that may yield another pathway to transparent aluminum (in addition to the Aluminum oxynitride and Al(2)O(3) pathways already mentioned.)

Submission + - Stealing passwords using TOR (derangedsecurity.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 11, 2007 @10:15AM

An anonymous reader writes: Remember that guy who published email passwords of 100 embassies? He reveals how he's done that. He used "Five ToR exit nodes ... equipped with our own packet-sniffer focused entirely on POP3 and IMAP traffic using a keyword-filter". Futhermore he states that government agencies in the US, Russia and around Asia are hosting TOR exit nodes and might be doing the same thing right now. This is supported by Heise Security who observed that the number of exit nodes in China grew from less than five to 77 in the last year — and guess who is operating TOR exit nodes in China.

Submission + - Florida-Sized Area of Arctic Sea Ice Melts (blogspot.com)

Submitted by

Mike Kuykendall

on Tuesday September 11, 2007 @08:46AM

Mike Kuykendall writes: "A 69,000 square mile-sized area has melted in the Arctic- scientists are increasingly concerned with how rapidly sea ice is receding."

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