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Submission + - Geek Squad busted for Copying Customer's Porn (consumerist.com)

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josquint

on Friday July 06, 2007 @04:30PM

josquint writes: ""We took it to around a dozen Best Buy Geek Squads and asked them to perform simple tasks, like installing iTunes. Most places were fine, sometimes doing the job right on the counter, sometimes even for free. Then we caught one well-seasoned Geek Squad Agent copying personal and pornographic images and video from our computer to his company-issued thumb drive" Also see the Log files and the confession!.

It really makes you wonder what else is copied off customers' computers. Porn may be the least of their worries, when you consider personal, financial data or passwords stored on many people's computers."

Submission + - Govt to use Full Disk Encryption on ALL computers

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Saqib Ali

on Thursday December 28, 2006 @10:11AM

Saqib Ali writes: "To address the issue of data leaks from stolen or missing laptops, US Government is planning to use Full Disk Encryption (FDE) on all of the Government owned computers. On June 23, 2006 a Presidential Mandate was put in place requiring all agency laptops to fully encrypt data on the HDD. The US Government is currently conducting the largest single side-by-side comparison and competition for the selection of a Full Disk Encryption product. The selected product will be deployed on Millions of computers in the US federal government space. This implementation will end up being the largest single implementation ever, and all of the information regarding the competition is in the public domain. The evaluation will come to a end in 90 days. You can view all the vendors competing and list of requirements."

Submission + - Most important lines of code

Submitted by r_accorsi on Thursday December 28, 2006 @09:38AM

r_accorsi writes: It is certainly true that world's basic infrastructures would collapse in case computers shutdown unexpectedly, thereby putting the whole humanity in danger, at least in certain regions. As computers are to-date responsible for keeping such services (and after all ourselves) alive, code is the ultimative matter. I would like to know which (classes of) lines of code are the key for our survival.

Submission + - Robots crawl the tubes under the city.

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Johan Louwers

on Thursday December 28, 2006 @08:52AM

Johan Louwers writes: "Robots will crawl tubes in a short while to investigate power cables running in the tubes to make sure they are still undamaged or in need for a repair. The Robotic Cable Inspection System is developed by Alexander Mamishev a assistant professor of electrical engineering at the University of Washington. Making use infrared thermal analysis and acoustic partial discharge analysis the robot will be checking mile after mile of cable while crawling his way in the tubes."

Secret Gov't Documents Will be Declassified 12/31 301

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday December 28, 2006 @08:16AM from the but-not-a-minute-earlier dept.

mozzwald writes "This New Year's Eve, at midnight on the dot, hundreds of millions of pages of U.S. government secrets will be revealed. Or at least they'll no longer be official secrets — it may actually take months or more for the National Archives and Records Administration to make those pages available for public consumption."

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