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Submission + - Samsung's comparison of Galaxy S to iPhone (scribd.com)

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david.emery
david.emery writes: "In a document from the ongoing Samsung/Apple trial, provided in both English translation and Korean original, Samsung engineers provided a detailed comparison of user interface features in their phone against the iPhone. In almost all cases, the recommendation was to adopt the iPhone's approach.

Among other observations, this shows how much work goes into defining the Apple iPhone user experience."
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft, Toyota to collaborate on smart cars (cnn.com)

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david.emery
david.emery writes: ""Microsoft and Toyota on Wednesday announced a $12 million partnership through which the companies will create an advanced digital information and communication system for the Japanese automaker's cars." Apparently it also includes connections to Microsoft's Cloud ("Azure") servers."

Submission + - BOA under DDOS attack?

Submitted by david.emery
david.emery writes: At 1800 Eastern, 28 Feb, response from www.bankofamerica.com ranged from 'very poor' to 'tcp timeout'

Submission + - Another insider critique of Wikileaks (cnn.com)

Submitted by david.emery
david.emery writes: WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange went from being "imaginative, energetic (and) brilliant" to a "paranoid, power-hungry, megalomaniac," a former colleague charges in a new book out Thursday. Further we read: Domscheit-Berg "damaged" WikiLeaks infrastructure and "stole material," WikiLeaks said Wednesday, and the website said it is taking legal action against him-- though Domscheit-Berg denied that. (I'm not clear on what it would mean to 'steal material' from something like WikiLeaks...)

Submission + - Assange on risks of informants (dailymail.co.uk)

Submitted by david.emery
david.emery writes: From the story: The title said he told international reporters: 'Well, they're informants so, if they get killed, they've got it coming to them. They deserve it.' The book continues: 'There was, for a moment, silence around the table.' The allegations were made in a new book published today by the Guardian timed to coincide with another title released by the New York Times. It also reveals that Assange was so worried that he was being followed by U.S. intelligence services that he disguised himself as a woman, it has been revealed.

Submission + - CNet Analysis on RIAA-Tenenbaum - appealbait? (cnet.com)

Submitted by david.emery
david.emery writes: CNet's Greg Sandoval provides his analysis/spin on the Tenenbaum decision reducing statutory damages. Among other items, it claims the Tenenbaum decision will make negotiating settlements harder, and is likely to be appealed with an assertion that the judge exceeded her authority. As seems to be typical in these cases, the litigation can go on and on until one side drops out through exhaustion.
Iphone

Submission + - Affidavit for 'lost' iPhone unsealed (wired.com)

Submitted by david.emery
david.emery writes: Wired.com has obtained and published a copy of the search warrant for Jason Chen. This details some pretty funky behavior on the part of Brian Hogan (iPhone finder), such as tossing flash cards into the bushes, dropping off computers at churches, and some snarky emails from Brian Lam to Steve Jobs. This adds more detail to what increasingly looks like anything but 'innocent behavior' in this case. Regardless of what you think about publishing photos of the iPhone, it's really hard to view this behavior as "someone trying to return a lost item."

Submission + - Signatures for a zero-day webserver hack?

Submitted by david.emery
david.emery writes: I'm seeing the following in my server logs:

[Tue Feb 09 02:55:33 2010] [error] [client 96.244.84.154] Invalid method in request \x95\xba\xbc\x9f\xe3\xcd\xef\x959\xe1^@\x9fq\xa8

[Tue Feb 09 08:13:21 2010] [error] [client 24.211.249.162] Invalid method in request I\xfa\x9f\xf7FEq\xa14c\xd6\x82$\x89\x97z\xfbR<\xbb\xe0-\xb0\x7f=;z\xe3:\x0e\xc7\xd8\x92\x04\xc6C\xb9\xa5\xe0\xee\xc9\xfc\x84

Sure looks like some sort of "maliciously crafted" string to me. Anyone else seeing this? What is this targeted to?

OS X

Submission + - Intego issues 'Year in Mac Security' malware repor (intego.com)

Submitted by david.emery
david.emery writes: MacOS and iPhones that haven't been jailbroken fare pretty well (although vulnerabilities exist, there's not been a lot of exploitation). Apple does come in for criticism for 'time to fix' known vulnerabilities. Jailbroken iPhones are a mess. The biggest risk to Macs are Trojan Horses, often from pirated software.

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