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Honeywell To Sell Miami-Dade Police a Surveillance Drone 253

Posted by Soulskill from the setting-trends dept.
AHuxley writes "The Miami-Dade Police Department recently finalized a deal to buy a 20-pound drone from defense firm Honeywell. The drone can fly for 40 minutes, reach heights of 10,500 feet and cruise in the air at 46 miles an hour. As the Miami-Dade Police Department has recently made a lot of budget cuts, the funding may have come from a federal grant. An eye in the sky like over Iraq and Afghanistan may soon be looking down over South Florida 'to keep people safe.' Honeywell has applied to the FAA for clearance to fly the drone in urban areas."
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Submission + - Doorways on Non-default Ports of Hacked Servers (unmaskparasites.com) 1

Submitted by UnmaskParasites
UnmaskParasites writes: To drive traffic to their online stores, software pirates hack reputable legitimate websites injecting hidden spammy links and creating doorway pages. Google's search results are seriously poisoned by such doorways. Negligence of webmasters of compromised sites makes this scheme viable — doorways remain unnoticed for years. Not so long ago, hackers began to re-configure Apache on compromised servers to make them serve doorway pages off of non-default ports, still taking advantage of using established domain names.

Submission + - Lieberman et al. Introduce anti-Wikileaks bill (wired.com) 1

Submitted by Amorymeltzer
Amorymeltzer writes: Sens. John Ensign (R-Nev.), Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Scott Brown (R-Mass.) introduced a bill Thursday aimed at stopping WikiLeaks by making it illegal to publish the names of military or intelligence community informants. ( http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/131885-senators-unveil-anti-wikileaks-legislation ) Leaking information is already a crime, but the proposed SHIELD Act (somebody watched Iron Man 2 recently) would go after publishers of information. Sen. Ensign (recently cleared http://www.8newsnow.com/story/13597653/breaking-news-sen-john-ensign-cleared-by-justice-department) claimed Assange was making US sources "death targets" for Al Qaeda. Of course, since criminal laws can't be retroactive, this will have no bearing on current Wikileaks activity.

Submission + - Love it or hate it, we must defend Wikileaks (computerworlduk.com)

Submitted by
WebMink
WebMink writes: "Whether you approve of Wikileaks or not (and the author clearly isn't a fan), the weakness it exposes in web and cloud service provision and the reaction it will provoke from legislators must concern us all. Despite the writer's distaste for Wikileaks (and The Pirate Bay) themselves, the article calls on us to defend their ability to exist against the coming onslaught of Internet-toxic legislation."

Submission + - Assange now accused of 'Sex by Surprise' (slate.com) 2

Submitted by kaptink
kaptink writes: In the ever increasingly bizzar allegations that Julian Assange commited rape in Sweden, it now turns out that Assange didn't rape anyone and the prosecution know and accept this. Instead they charge with something called "sex by surprise," which reportedly carries a $715 fine. According to Assange's London attorney, Mark Stephens, prosecutors have yet to explain the charges or meet with the WikiLeaks chief to discuss them, which he's agreed to do. "Whatever 'sex by surprise' is, it's only an offense in Sweden, not in the U.K. or the U.S. or even Ibiza," Stephens fumed. "I feel as if I'm in a surreal Swedish movie being threatened by bizarre trolls."

Submission + - Britain Resists Extraditing Hacker Gary McKinnon (globalpost.com)

Submitted by dinoyum
dinoyum writes: The basic facts of the McKinnon case are not in dispute. In 2001 and 2002, Gary McKinnon, a computer programmer from Glasgow, accessed NASA and Defense Department computers on more than 90 occasions. The United States claims he hacked his way into the systems, rendered one naval computer inoperable for several days, and copied files from others, causing $800,000 dollars worth of damage. McKinnon claims he hacked into nothing. He gained entry into bits of the system without using a password. Indeed, he left messages after his visits pointing out how lousy the Defense Department security systems were. . . McKinnon's mother, Janis Sharp, made a compelling public case expressing fear for her son's life if he was transferred to an American prison. He suffers from Asperger's Syndrome, an autistic spectrum disorder, and also depression. She has organized a successful online information campaign.
Wireless Networking

Submission + - Droid 2 allegedly explodes, bloodies man (networkworld.com) 1

Submitted by alphadogg
alphadogg writes: A north Texas man reported Thursday that his Motorola Droid 2 smartphone exploded next to his ear as he was ending a call, resulting in a bloodied face and a trip to the hospital.

Fortunately, no hearing loss occurred, according to a report by WFAA-TV in Dallas/Forth Worth. http://www.wfaa.com/news/health/Man-hospitalized-after-phone--111203854.html And yes, the phone was actually still working after the incident.

The man said he heard a loud pop from his just two-day-old phone and then felt blood running down his face as a result of the shattered glass covering, according to the report. He received four stitches at the hospital.

Motorola issued a statement that it will reach out to the customer and investigate the incident thoroughly.
Google

Submission + - Official Google Voice App Approved for iOS (wifitalk.ca)

Submitted by silverpig
silverpig writes: Apple has finally approved the official Google Voice app for iOS. After 16 months of being in app-review limbo, the app is finally here, but only for users in the US, and not for iPod Touch users. An interesting use for the app would be to use it as a dialing front end on an iPod touch in concert with a VOIP service, but it seems like this isn't an option for now.

It seems like non-US users can get the app if they have a US iTunes account. You can create a US iTunes account without a credit card by following this Apple article.

Comment Sad State of the US (Score 1) 394

by DigiWood (#31859658) Attached to: Entertainment Industry's Dystopia of the Future

The US used to be a technological super power. Now the US is all about suing everyone into submission. I have friends from abroad that won't travel to the US because of the draconian process they have to go through to enter the country. TSA agents taking high tech electronics. Invasive searches and questioning. All for what? A false sense of security. The TSA rent-a-cops didn't stop the guy over Christmas 2009. The passengers of the flight did. And having government officials police copyright is laughable. How can they tell what is legit and what is not? This will just make air travel that much more irrelevant. I will be taking a train when travelling from now on. I don't travel outside the US, so that will work for me. Yeah it takes more time. Oh well.

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