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Submission + - Phoenix Police Seize PC's of a Critical Blogger

logicassasin writes: From the article found here — http://carlosmiller.com/2009/04/02/phoenix-police-raid-home-of-blogger-whose-writing-is-highly-critical-of-them/

"In what should send a frightening chill down the spine of every blogger, writer, journalist and First Amendment advocate in the United States, Phoenix police raided the home of a blogger who has been highly critical of the department.

Jeff Pataky, who runs Bad Phoenix Cops, said the officers confiscated three computers, routers, modems, hard drives, memory cards and everything necessary to continue blogging.

The 41-year-old software engineer said they also confiscated numerous personal files and documents relating to a pending lawsuit he has against the department alleging harassment — which he says makes it obvious the raid was an act of retaliation."

Read an Arizona news article on the raid here: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2009/03/19/20090319copsblog0319.html

Comment Re:I was so excited, for like ten seconds (Score 1) 360

I want to type something like "add favourite 'my favourite recipes' in 'food links'" and "go back" and "favourite 'my favourite recipes'" and "new tab 'live.ca'" and "close all other tabs".

you can do all these from ubiquity... i'd say you check ubiquity first..

my opinion is that they shouldn't incorporate Taskfox in the default build, as some mentioned before they should stop adding bling-blings and improve firefox's performance... since moved to version 3 I feel like I've done a downgrade :|

Comment so what? (Score 4, Interesting) 145

ESETs ThreatSense technology (heuristically) recognizes all the variants... F-Secure did a conflicker removal tool in 27th of February...

And above all that I'm skeptic about the "delete all versions" phrase, because BidDefender as a (bloated) AV that it is, is pretty much signature based, and has very weak heuristic detection...

Comment developer point of view (Score 1) 240

  • Joomla! for blogging is like using a PC just for playing music.
  • Wordpress as a CMS solution is like using an iPOD for playing movies.

Sure Wordpress can do the job as a CMS, but when you'll need a higher degree of customization you'll need to digg into the code, where Joomla! might have already that feature somewhere in the administrative panel...

p.s. I know it wasn't the best analogy, but still...

Comment Re:Just don't (Score 1) 229

and you could also blame books like the above one... register_globals? for f***s sake we are using php 5 (Some of us at least) which has it turned off and books like this one put us back (at least) 8 years in time...

I think that the ones that wrote the books are security experts and due to the fact that in their last pentest (security audit) didn't find any xss/sql injection/rfi vulnerability they decided to "repair" the problem.
Worms

Submission + - Old School = Respect?

dblackshell writes: I recently read SOPHOS's Chicken Hack blog post, and I wondered if we should respect "such" worms? And by such I mean worms that spread just to show a message, make a statement or just for fame. An example of such a virus is the 'Eddie' virus written by Dark Avenger (it used to trash hdd also, but that's another story).

I wonder, would you better be zombified (infected with a bot) than infected by such a virus? I rather respect this worm (although hate those frigging typo's) than just poke on it (as Zoe Markham did at SophosLabs), because it reminds me of the times when VX's did it for fun and not profit.

And yes, Dark Avenger did get famous.

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