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Comment Re:Starting with TWM, (Score 1) 432

by GC on Tuesday March 31, 2009 @07:52PM (#27410093) Attached to: I typically stick with the same desktop environment

Every now and then in all of this, I really just miss TWM and vaguely consider going back.

Oh - yes - I know exactly what you mean. I started with twm and then tvtwm and for the minimalist who just needs to get things done it was perfect (with the added advantage of the virtual sized desktop). Editing a .twmrc is probably beyond most these days... though anyone who has a nice conky setup will probably love it.

MD5 Proven Ineffective for App Signatures 117

Posted by Zonk on Sunday December 02, 2007 @07:31AM from the needs-a-bit-of-retooling dept.

prostoalex writes "Marc Stevens, Arjen K. Lenstra, and Benne de Weger have released their paper 'Vulnerability of software integrity and code signing applications to chosen-prefix collisions for MD5'. It describes a reproducible attack on MD5 algorithms to fake software signatures. Researchers start off with two simplistic Windows applications — HelloWorld.exe and GoodbyeWorld.exe, and apply a known prefix attack that makes md5() signatures for both of the applications identical. Researchers point out: 'For abusing a chosen-prefix collision on a software integrity protection or a code signing scheme, the attacker should be able to manipulate the files before they are being hashed and/or signed. This may mean that the attacker needs insider access to the party operating the trusted software integrity protection or code signing process.'"

Submission + - U.S. May Kidnap Wanted British Citizens

Submitted by

Frosty Piss

on Sunday December 02, 2007 @06:15AM

Frosty Piss writes: "
A lawyer for the U.S. government has told the British Court of Appeal in London that kidnapping foreign citizens is permissible under American law because the Supreme Court has sanctioned it, making it clear in a British court that the law applies to anyone, British or otherwise, suspected of a crime by Washington. The lawyer said that if a person was kidnapped by the U.S. authorities in another country and was brought back to face charges in America, no U.S. court could rule that the abduction was illegal and free him.

This is the first I've heard of this outrageous idea applied outside equally questionable "terrorist renditions". Many nations of the world may be surprised to learn the U.S. no longer believes in sovereignty."

Submission + - UK Inland Revenue lose discs with 15m bank records (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by

clickclickdrone

on Tuesday November 20, 2007 @10:52AM

clickclickdrone writes: "The UK Inland Revenue have apparantly lost disks containing 15m bank records. The Chairman has already resigned and parliament are to be told the details at 3PM. It is unknown at this point if the data was encrypted or exactly what details were included."

Submission + - UK Govt loses 15m unencrypted personal records. (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by

Gandalf_the_Beardy

on Tuesday November 20, 2007 @09:14AM

Gandalf_the_Beardy writes: "Confidential details of 15 million child benefit recipients are on a computer disc lost by HM Revenue and Customs, the BBC understands. The chairman of revenue and customs, Paul Gray, has resigned. Revenue and Customs says it does not believe the records — names, addresses and bank accounts — have fallen into the wrong hands."

Submission + - SCO Group Denies Its Demise Is Imminent

Submitted by Rob on Tuesday January 16, 2007 @10:20AM

Rob writes: The chief executive of controversial Unix vendor SCO Group Inc has written to its partners and customers in an attempt to reassure them that it is not about to go out of business. To paraphrase a line from Mr Twain, the rumors of our death have been greatly exaggerated, wrote Lindon, Utah-based SCO's Darl McBride in a letter that was recently filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. While McBride's letter did not mention any suggestions of its demise directly, it can be seen as a reference to recent claims made by Novell Inc in their ongoing battle of the Unix copyrights. Waltham, Massachusetts-based Novell recently declared in a court paper that SCO's bankruptcy was both "imminent" and "inevitable."

Submission + - Man badly burnt after mobile phone catches fire

Submitted by

ztransform

on Tuesday January 16, 2007 @08:29AM

ztransform writes: "According to this article a man in California has suffered burns to 50% of his body after a mobile phone he was carrying in a pocket caught fire.

The article states that authorities declined to name the phone's manufacturer and model. Imagine the value of shares in any named company following the many recent reports of laptop battery recalls."

Submission + - Cell phone sets off fire, man charred

Submitted by superash on Tuesday January 16, 2007 @08:25AM

superash writes: Vallejo (California): "A cell phone apparently ignited in a man's pocket and started a fire that burned his hotel room and caused severe burns over half his body, fire department officials said.
Fifty-nine-year-old Luis Picaso was in stable condition on Monday with second- and third-degree burns to his upper body, back, right arm and right leg, Vallejo Fire Department assistant chief Kurt Henke said."

http://www.ibnlive.com/news/cell-phone-sets-off-fi re-man-charred/31317-11.html

There was a incident some time back where a laptop battery exploded endagering life of many in a high profile conference. Are the hardware manufacturers taking the common man for granted? Are these a result of low-cost production(outsourcing) ??

Submission + - Sealand bought by a Kazakh writer?

Submitted by

rm

on Tuesday January 16, 2007 @05:03AM

rm writes: "According to Russian-language news site CentrAsia (translation), a Kazakh writer Daniyar Ashimbaev, with support from unnamed Kazakh company, on 10-th January, had purchased Principality of Sealand. He plans to move to live there, despite that only 3 of 16 living rooms of Sealand's only platform are left intact after recent fire. Daniyar says his sponsors helped him to buy Sealand as an advertisement venture, and soon their trademark signs will be placed on billboards on top of Sealand's platform. The writer also said that he hopes to make Sealand a forepost of Kazakh culture on the west, and make Kazakh and Russian the official state languages of Sealand."

Submission + - BitThief BT Client Downloads Without Uploading

Submitted by

Smaran

on Thursday January 04, 2007 @06:52AM

Smaran writes: "BitThief is a BitTorrent client developed in Zurich, Switzerland that manages to download torrents without uploading at all. It constantly pretends to be a newly arrived peer that doesn't have any bits to upload. It also doesn't prioritise bits and takes whatever it can get. Torrentfreak writes that such a client could be extremely harmful to BitTorrent swarms and hopes that it will be quickly banned from trackers. Since it's written in Java, it can be launched on any platform."

Submission + - When celebrities speak on science

Submitted by

Timberwolf0122

on Wednesday January 03, 2007 @11:24AM

Timberwolf0122 writes: "Sense About Science has urged stars not to dip their toes into tricky scientific issues without checking their facts first. In the article on BBC News some examples are put forward of the dubious science uttered by celebrities — together with the views of its experts."

Submission + - FBI did nothing wrong at GTMO

Submitted by Twisted Willie on Wednesday January 03, 2007 @09:45AM

Twisted Willie writes: The FBI has done an internal investigation of possible misconduct by FBI agents in Guantanamo Bay. They found that no FBI personnel was quilty of anything, but they have released documents with the observations made by FBI agents. I wonder if witnessing a crime but doing nothing to stop it is also FBI policy.

Submission + - Risk Mitigation for Legacy Windows NT 4.0 Systems

Submitted by er45 on Wednesday January 03, 2007 @09:30AM

er45 writes: Arguably one of today's biggest risks for network security and compliance are lingering systems that are no longer supported by their vendors. The security flaws in these systems may have been widely known for years, as is the case with Windows NT 4.0. In this article, we'll examine the risks associated with continuing to run these systems as well as provide some countermeasures that can be used to mitigate these risks.

Submission + - Sign the UK Petition Against Software Patents

Submitted by

Joel Merrick

on Wednesday January 03, 2007 @08:00AM

Joel Merrick writes: "If you would like to voice your concern about software patents, head along to http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/softwarepatents/ and sign the petition. The deadline date for signatures is 20th February 2007 The online e-petition site is run by 10 Downing Street so, hopefully, should provide some worth."

Submission + - Drop In Spam Traffic

Submitted by ta_79fan on Wednesday January 03, 2007 @02:01AM

ta_79fan writes: Has anyone but me noticed a drop in the SPAM traffic since the outage in Asia from the earthquake? I've gone from blocking about 350 spams a day to about 40 or 50. Amazing. If that large of percentage of SPAMs are coming from Asian countries, should we just disconect them? Maybe we can get them to agree to fly right to be reconnected and follow the unwritten rules of decent internet usage. I can't tell you how pleasant it is to not have to block so many spams.

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