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Submission + - Australia cracked US combat aircraft codes (news.com.au)

Submitted by SpamSlapper on Thursday September 20, 2007 @03:20AM

SpamSlapper writes: FORMER defence minister Kim Beazley has told how Australia cracked top-secret American combat aircraft codes to enable the shooting down of enemy aircraft in the 1980s. The radar on Australia's Hornets could not identify most potentially hostile aircraft in the region, but dispite many requests, the codes were not provided, so "In the end we spied on them and we extracted the codes ourselves". The Americans knew what the Australians were doing and were intrigued by the progress they made.

Submission + - NBC Joins ABC in Allowing Free Show Downloads (gizmodo.com)

Submitted by reabbotted on Wednesday September 19, 2007 @03:21PM

reabbotted writes: From Gizmodo, "NBC just announced free DRM'ed downloads of popular shows like Heroes, Conan, The Office, 30 Rock and the Bionic Woman that will last a week. Windows now, but upgrades such as Mac compatibility, HD, and portable player support coming soon." Do they finally get it?

Jobs' Next Fight — Dealing With iPhone Hackers 341

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday September 19, 2007 @01:34PM from the or-you-could-just-open-it-up dept.

An anonymous reader writes "With Steve Jobs' recent announcement of his intention to fight off the independent iPhone developers, the question worth asking is: How will Apple try to defeat the hackers: Software updates, or lawsuits? Will Apple risk losing its most frequently (ab)used legal tool, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, in order to try and punish the developers of the iPhone unlocking tools? This CNET article explores the legal issues involved in this, which make it perfectly legal to reverse engineer your own iPhone, but illegal to share your circumventing source code with others."

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