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Comment Re:Instance creation? (Score 3, Informative) 52

by emcron on Monday December 14, 2009 @11:36PM (#30439960) Attached to: Amazon Introduces Bidding For EC2 Compute Time

It's not a matter of getting custom quotes -- they just want to know what you're intended use is going to be. The price tiers (I believe) remain the same. It's a basic check to try to limit malicious users who would spawn thousands of instances for spam or other nefarious purposes.

Submission + - Texas Instruments Signing Keys Broken (wikileaks.org)

Submitted by

emcron

on Sunday September 27, 2009 @11:28PM

emcron writes: "Texas Instruments' calculators use RSA digital signatures to authenticate any updates to their operating system. Unfortunately, their signing keys are too short: 512-bits. Earlier this month, a collaborative effort factored the moduli and published the private keys. Texas Instruments responded by threatening websites that published the keys with the DMCA, but it's too late. (via Schneier)."

Submission + - Comcast Starts Typosquatting Domain Names

Submitted by emcron on Saturday July 11, 2009 @01:09PM

emcron writes: Calling it a service to "help high-speed Internet customers get where they want to go," Comcast has announced that it will be redirecting mistyped domain names to its own sites. Comcast says its redirected landing pages for non-existent domains will have search services provided by Yahoo. Hoping to avoid lawsuits similar to those filed against other ISPs who've implemented DNS typo redirecting, Comcast says it will provide users a way to opt-out of the service on the new landing pages.

Submission + - Comcast DNS redirection launched in trial markets (dslreports.com)

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Thursday July 09, 2009 @01:56PM

Anonymous Coward writes: "Comcast has finally launched its DNS Redirector service in trial markets (Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas, Utah, and Washington state), and has submit a working draft of the technology to the IETF for review.

Comcast customers can opt-out from the service by providing their account username and cable modem MAC address. Customers in trial areas using "old" Comcast DNS servers, or non-Comcast DNS servers, should not be affected by this.

This deployment comes after many previous ISPs, like DSLExtreme, were forced to pull the plug on such efforts as a result of customer disapproval/retaliation. Some may remember when VeriSign tried this back in 2003, where it also failed."

Comment Re:Here's the full version (Score 1) 147

by emcron on Monday May 04, 2009 @01:07AM (#27812595) Attached to: Looking Back At the Other Kind of Virus

Parent is spam link.

Submission + - Report slams FCC for leaks to companies (komotv.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 03, 2007 @03:10AM

An anonymous reader writes: The Federal Communications Commission leaks confidential information to some companies and trade groups with business before the agency while leaving consumer advocates and the public in the dark, congressional investigators have found. The Government Accountability Office said the agency tips off some people about what items are about to be voted on, which gives them an unfair lobbying advantage. "This imbalance of information is not the intended result of the Communications Act and it runs contrary to the principles of transparency and equal opportunity for participation established by law and to FCC's own rules that govern rulemaking," the report said.

Submission + - CastleCops DDoS Attacker Indicted (castlecops.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 03, 2007 @01:42AM

An anonymous reader writes: CastleCops.com became the target of a DDoS last February, which peaked at 969 Mbps. US Attorney Office allege Greg King, 21, of Fairfield California is responsible for the attack on CastleCops in the 12 page indictment. King is facing 4 counts of "Transmission of code to cause damage to a protected computer" he faces a maximum sentence of ten years imprisonment and a $250,000 fine.

Submission + - VBootkit Bypasses Vista's Code Signing Mechanisms

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 03, 2007 @06:07PM

An anonymous reader writes: At the Black Hat Conference in Amsterdam, security experts from India demonstrated a special boot loader that gets around Vista's code signing mechanisms. Indian security experts Nitin and Vipin Kumar of NV labs have developed a program called the VBootkit that launches from a CD and boots Vista, making "on the fly" changes in memory and in files being read. In a demonstration, the "boot kit" managed to run with kernel privileges and issue system rights to a CMD shell when running on Vista, even without a Microsoft signature. Bruce Schneier reminds us that this is not theoretical; VBootkit is actual code that demonstrates the exploit.

Comment Re:Shh! Don't spoil the secret! (Score 5, Insightful) 372

by emcron on Sunday December 03, 2006 @08:10PM (#17093838) Attached to: Windows Live and Privacy

Um, no. If you're on a public street, it's fair game. What you're thinking of only applies to using someone's likeness or celebrity without consent to imply that a specific person is endorsing a product. You don't think that every local news station in the US has to compensate people milling about in the background of their news video, do you? If you're on public property you can take whatever pictures you want and commercialize them in nearly any fashion.

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