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Comment Re:Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Ac (Score 1) 236

As far as I can tell, their system tracks using radio signals, and intercepting radio signals is specifically excluded from this provision

Your quote may be right, but your interpretation is incorrect.
"intercepting radio signals is specifically excluded" only applies to "a system, or series of systems, for carrying communications solely by means of radiocommunication".

A cell phone uses a "telecommunications network" that does not consist of "communications solely by means of radiocommunication", since a cell phone network includes the regular phone system, including exchanges, etc.

The exclusion given above would apply to things like ham radios, walkie-talkies, etc.

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RIM Server Crash Leaves Millions Without BBM 191

Several readers have sent word that "tens of millions of BlackBerry users in Europe, the Middle East and Africa have been unable to receive or send emails and messages through their phones, following an outage at the server systems of parent company Research In Motion." RIM has confirmed that they're aware of the problem and working to restore service. A former RIM employee said to The Guardian, "They didn't start looking at scalability until about 2007, when they had around 8M active devices. The attitude was, 'We're going to grow and grow but making sure our infrastructure can support it isn't a priority.' They have their own clunky infrastructure to do something that you don't really need a clunky infrastructure to do anymore."

Comment Re:I've cracked it! (Score 1) 466

There appear to be a TON of clues in this document to help break it:

1. Repetition: "5E" or "SE". Plenty of times.
2. Numbers appear to be plain text. Three consecutive lines have 71, 74, 75 followed by the same four characters.
3. Apostrophes and hyphens. Not all of these would be literal, but they are major clues.

Plus, he has been using this "encryption" for years. The code is certainly something he could do in his head as he writes.

Comment Re:Yawn (Score 1) 145

There is not a single reason to "only lend one digital" copy out at a time, other than to force some insane business model down the throats of people

There is this little thing call copyright law. It has to do with the RIGHT to COPY something. They have a right to loan out their single copy, but not more than one.

Comment Re:Now FIXED (Score 1) 165

The XSS attack should now be fully patched and no longer exploitable. Thanks, those reporting it.

about 1 hour ago via web
Retweeted by 100+ people

So, they tweeted that they had fixed a bug preventing unintended retweeting, and 100+ people have retweeted it?

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