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Submission + - The truth about Google Chrome using Spy Studio. (nektra.com)

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An anonymous reader writes: http://blog.nektra.com/main/2008/10/15/the-truth-about-google-chrome-using-spy-studio/ Everyone has a lot of questions about Chrome. Some people say that it is spyware because each and every character you enter is sent to Google but is it? Who is correct? What kind of information is really traveling between Chrome and Google? What data about you is being sent to the web? Is it true that Google's browser sends details about everything you do? Is it an unsafe browser? What happens behind Incognito mode? Spying on Google Chrome with Spystudio we can monitor exactly what is transmitted between Google and your desktop whilst running chrome.
Science

Oldest Skeleton In New World Discovered 485

Posted by CmdrTaco from the god-is-burying-tests-again dept.
Death Metal Maniac writes "Dubbed Eva de Naharon, or Eve of Naharon, the female skeleton has been dated at 13,600 years old. If that age is accurate, the skeleton along with three others found in underwater caves along the Caribbean coast of the Yucatán Peninsula could provide new clues to how the Americas were first populated. The skeletons' skulls hint that the people may not be of northern Asian descent, which would contradict the dominant theory of New World settlement. 'The shape of the skulls has led us to believe that Eva and the others have more of an affinity with people from South Asia than North Asia,' González explained."
Programming

Theo de Raadt On Relicensing BSD Code 613

Posted by kdawson from the read-the-berne-convention dept.
iBSD writes "KernelTrap has an interesting article in which Theo de Raadt discusses the legal implications of the recent relicensing of OpenBSD's BSD-licensed Atheros driver under the GPL. De Raadt says, 'it has been like pulling teeth since (most) Linux wireless guys and the SFLC do not wish to admit fault. I think that the Linux wireless guys should really think hard about this problem, how they look, and the legal risks they place upon the future of their source code bodies.' He stressed that the theory that BSD code can simply be relicensed to the GPL without making significant changes to the code is false, adding, 'in their zeal to get the code under their own license, some of these Linux wireless developers have broken copyright law repeatedly. But to even get to the point where they broke copyright law, they had to bypass a whole series of ethical considerations too.'"
Bug

Bring Down Internet Explorer In Six Words 239

Posted by kdawson from the don't-you-think-she-looks-tired dept.
Marcion writes "Some handy Japanese guy called Hamachiya discovered a bug in Internet Explorer. Under certain conditions, an asterisk when used as a wildcard can crash IE as soon as the user attempts to go to another page." The article claims the "five HTML tags and a CSS declaration" crash IE7 as well as IE6, but I couldn't get IE7 to fail. This page says that as of June, IE6 was at about 37% market share and IE7 under 20%.

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