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Submission + - NSA Story Leads To First: Spy Vs Spy Guys On Mad Magazine Cover w/ Obama (politico.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Timeless as ever, the usual gang of idiots at Mad Magazine will be poking fun at President Obama and the NSA reports Politico, "Think there’s nothing funny about the federal government invading your privacy? Check out the next issue of MAD magazine. Its latest issue, on newsstands Aug. 28, features President Barack Obama overseeing the magazine’s Spy vs. Spy characters as they sharpen their best eavesdropping devices. (For loyal MAD magazine fans, this is the first time that Spy vs. Spy has been featured as main cover characters.)"

Submission + - Researchers Demo Exploits Bypassing Windows 8 Secure Boot (itworld.com)

itwbennett writes: Researchers demonstrated at Black Hat this week two attacks that bypassed Secure Boot in order to install a UEFI bootkit — boot rootkit — on affected computers. The first exploit works because certain vendors do not properly protect their firmware, allowing an attacker to modify the code responsible for enforcing Secure Boot, said researcher Yuriy Bulygin, who works at McAfee. The second exploit demonstrated by the researchers can run in user mode, which means that an attacker would only need to gain code execution rights on the system by exploiting a vulnerability in a regular application like Java, Adobe Flash, Microsoft Office or others. In both cases, the exploits are possible not because of vulnerabilities in Secure Boot itself, but because of UEFI implementation errors made by platform vendors.

Comment Re:megatons != megatonnes of TNT (Score 1) 128

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonne
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_ton
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ton

Interesting read. I did not know that a ton (in the US) does not weigh the same as a tonne or a ton (in UK), though they are all measures of weight. Both can also be used for measure of energy through equivalence with a mass of TNT.

    Fascinating language English is.

Comment DMCA Safe-Harbor (Score 1) 418

Does this exclude ISP's from DMCA Safe-Harbor?

17 USC 512
(a) Transitory Digital Network Communications.
(2) the transmission, routing, provision of connections, or storage is carried out through an automatic technical process without selection of the material by the service provider

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