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Submission + - Stephen Fry and DVD Jon back USB Sniffer Project (kickstarter.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 26, 2010 @04:52AM

An anonymous reader writes: bushing and pytey of the iPhone DevTeam and Team Twiizers have created a Kickstarter project to fund the build of an open-source/open-hardware high-speed USB protocol analyzer. The board features a high-speed USB 2.0 sniffer that will help with the reverse engineering of proprietary USB hardware, the project has gained the backing from two high-profile individuals Jon Lech Johansen (DVD Jon) and Actor and Comedian Stephen Fry

Comment Re:How does this differ from Truecrypt? (Score 4, Informative) 252

by bamf on Tuesday January 05, 2010 @02:57PM (#30658742) Attached to: Encryption Cracked On NIST-Certified Flash Drives

If you set up Truecrypt in portable-mode on a USB key so it acts like these off-the-shelf keys, then it needs administrator privileges to work. That's a big problem for a lot of people.

Comment Re:So only XP is out of luck? (Score 1) 442

by bamf on Monday December 28, 2009 @01:10PM (#30572774) Attached to: HDD Manufacturers Moving To 4096-Byte Sectors

Or as in our case, buy new PCs and load an XP image. I suspect there are a huge number of companies doing this. We've no fixed plans to go to Windows 7 any time soon.

Comment Oh god no... (Score 1) 1124

by bamf on Wednesday September 23, 2009 @03:36PM (#29520257) Attached to: Firefox To Replace Menus With Office Ribbon

...anything but the ribbon.

I still can't find anything I need in Office 2007, IMO the ribbon is the biggest backwards step in usability ever.

The New VA Health Plan Is Second Life 54

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday September 06, 2009 @11:01AM from the not-reincarnation dept.

theodp writes "Remember when Catbert informed Dilbert that the new company health plan is Google? In another case of life imitating Dilbert, combat veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder are being provided with a US Army-sponsored virtual world in Second Life (slideshow) to help deal with their condition. Developed by USC's Institute for Creative Technologies, it is hoped that the veterans-only virtual world Coming Home and its planned activities will promote conversations that can help reduce PTSD. The Avatar will see you now, Sergeant."

Comment Re:Think back 17 years (Score 4, Informative) 633

by bamf on Tuesday August 25, 2009 @06:07AM (#29183991) Attached to: Thanks For the ... Eight-Track, Uncle Alex

I still have music CDs that I purchased in the 1970's that are still usable :)

A pretty good trick since they weren't commercially available until late '82 :)

Pirate Bay Trial Ends In Jail Sentences 1870

Posted by timothy on Friday April 17, 2009 @07:10AM from the even-non-commercial-use dept.

myvirtualid writes "The Globe and Mail reports that the Pirate Bay defendants were each sentenced Friday to one year in jail. According to the article, 'Judge Tomas Norstrom told reporters that the court took into account that the site was "commercially driven" when it made the ruling. The defendants have denied any commercial motives behind the site.' The defendants said before the verdict that they would appeal if they were found guilty. 'Stay calm — Nothing will happen to TPB, us personally or file sharing whatsoever. This is just a theater for the media,' Mr. Sunde said Friday in a posting on social networking site Twitter." Update: 04/17 12:16 GMT by T : Several updates, below.

Governments Preparing To Bail Out DRAM Makers 494

Posted by timothy on Monday December 15, 2008 @05:14AM from the bailing-buckets-the-new-best-conference-swag dept.

An anonymous reader writes "DRAM makers are facing one of the worst downturns in their history and governments around the world are lining up to help companies through the mess. Taiwan, Germany and South Korea all appear poised to offer some assistance to their DRAM chip makers. The chip makers' problems are indicative of global woes. Easy lending terms and a bright view of the future prompted them to build too many new DRAM factories. Much of the new output was aimed at Microsoft's Windows Vista, which has higher memory requirements than XP."

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