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Submission + - CarrierIQ makes mainstream news front page (cnn.com)

Submitted by Pat Attack
Pat Attack writes: Today, CarrierIQ, the spyware we have all come to know in the Slashdot community, has made it's way onto the CNN front page. CNN Money reports what we already know. Christopher Soghoian, a cyberprivacy researcher and fellow at human rights organization Open Society is quoted in the article. 'Carrier IQ doesn't seem as nefarious as incompetent, but that may not be enough to allay the legitimate concerns of the public,' he said. 'There would be huge issues if this data were transmitted to a carrier, but even if not, it presents huge concerns. This would be a gold mine for a hacker.'
Does this new public awareness put pressures on the Wireless Overlords to remove the software?

Submission + - Religion embraced by atheist scientists with child (sciencedaily.com)

Submitted by cloakedpegasus
cloakedpegasus writes: "Some atheist scientists with children embrace religious traditions for social and personal reasons, according to research from Rice University and the University at Buffalo — The State University of New York (SUNY)." Also "...some atheist scientists want their children to know about different religions so their children can make informed decisions about their own religious preferences." " A grant from the John Templeton Foundation and funding from Rice supported the research."
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Submission + - Microsoft allowed to continue $8.5 Billion Skype (foxbusiness.com)

Submitted by the simurgh
the simurgh writes: microsft has won U.S. antitrust approval to buy the Internet phone service Skype, the Federal Trade Commission said in a website posting Friday.

Microsoft announced in May it was buying Skype for $8.5 billion, its biggest-ever acquisition, placing a rich bet on mobile and the Internet to try and best rivals such as Google Inc.

The approval was announced in a listing of deal approvals that comes out several times a week.
Microsoft's interest in the money-losing, but popular service highlights a need to gain new customers for its Windows and Office software.
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Submission + - EFF Publishes Study on Browser Fingerprinting (eff.org)

Submitted by Rubinstien
Rubinstien writes: The Electronic Frontier Foundation investigated the degree to which modern web browsers are susceptible to "device fingerprinting" via version and configuration information transmitted to websites. They implemented one possible algorithm, and collected from a large sample of browsers visiting their test site, http://panopticlick.eff.org/ . According to the PDF describing the study, browsers that supported Flash
or Java on average supplied at least 18.8 bits of identifying information, and 94.2% of those browsers were uniquely identifiable in their sample. My own browser was uniquely identifiable from both the list of plugins and available fonts, among 1,557,962 browsers tested so far.

Comment External firewire drive (Score 1) 680

by cloakedpegasus (#34945596) Attached to: How Do You Store Your Personal Photos?
External firewire drive duh. If you are that much into digital photography I assume you use picture management software, possibly? Many don't support pictures on a NAS, or are simply too slow when dealing with large amounts of huge RAW files. As for backup, you can keep pictures on the NAS, it's just if you prefer to edit and manage your photos then you will need to use an external drive.

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