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Hardware Hacking

Submission + - hacking through broadband over powerline

Submitted by
Lloyd Dettering
Lloyd Dettering writes: "My 5 PCs have been hacked by someone on the behalf of the Canadian Depository for Securities, a private company, owned, according to their website, cds.ca (this info might not be stated on their website any longer, but the info is available from "Intercorporate Ownership" published by Statistics Canada), by major banks, the Toronto Stock Exchange and the Investment Dealers Association of Canada (many of whose members have been involved in boiler-room stock scams in the past). Reason? I had my spreadsheet, containing financial data on all listed Canadian companies converted into a database for publishing on the Internet, available to all investors. For a very small fee, which would allow me to hire others to continue the work of the data input (so I could turn my attention to other things), the retail investor would be able to compare up to 50 stocks at a time. They don't want this service to be initiated as investors would then be able, after selecting the best stock for their needs, to use the services of discount brokers. First, they placed viruses, spyware and even a rootkit on my PC when I continued to download files (which are public files but on which they claim 'joint-ownership' with the Canadian Securities Administrators, the members of which are the heads of the various Provincial and Territorial Commissions across Canada. I asked their resident moron, David Scott, who made this claim of ownership, how could they own the files when they stated on their website, sedar.com, that the filers are responsible for any errors). I ceased trying to download any files from sedar.com but whenever I try downloading files from the SEC's website, sec.gov, they interrupt my Automatic Downloader, stopping it and later allowing it to restart after the program has reported 'cannot download file' for over 60 files. My 2 phones have also been wiretapped by these scum. They even placed viruses on files I'd downloaded from the SEC's website to make it appear that I'd downloaded the files with viruses from sec.gov, which the SEC has assured me the viruses didn't and wouldn't come from them (I'd never had this problem before with any files downloaded from sec.gov). I've been unable to get any help from any police agency in Canada (I had a meeting with an R.C.M.P. sergeant who only came to the meeting to lie his head off) nor from any of the elected representatives in either the Federal government in Ottawa or the Provincial government in Toronto. I'm sure they all know what's going on but the Liberals and Conservatives get their campaign finances from these people and turn a blind eye to their illegal activities. The O.P.P. (Ontario Provincial Police) cannot help me, even though they have the expertise, as they have first to be invited by the local Keystone Kops, the Niagara Regional Police Service (N.R.P.S.) and, although I requested this O.P.P. invitation several months ago from N.R.P.S. Chief, Wendy Southall, a figurehead installed to make those who really run N.R.P.S. look 'progressive', I am yet to receive any response from her. My home was even broken into (and copies of the letters I'd sent to the MPs and MPPs stolen. My Transaction Register which contains a record of all my deposits, withdrawals and purchases was also stolen. Perhaps they wanted to see what I'd done with the money I'd received from refinancing my home. Hire a lawyer maybe? David Scott, a 24K moron, had told me, when I told him I'd take the matter to court, that they, CDS Inc., didn't want to go to court but wouldn't allow me access to the files on sedar.com either) by these scum on March 27th, 2006 but the Ontario Civilian Commission on Police Services has agreed with N.R.P.S. that my complaint is 'frivolous'. According to a survey by some United Nations body, Canada is supposed to be the 'best place in the world to live'. But it's well-known that the U.N. is full of corruption. Perhaps someone was bribed to make this claim. After all, we have thousands of highly qualified immigrants, lured to this country, who can only find low-paying jobs beneath their abilities. Yesterday's "Toronto Star" ran an article on this. Small wonder that when Canada's Constitution was 'repatriated' there was a huge celebration in Ottawa as we can no longer appeal to the Privy Council in the United Kingdom and the politicians and their friends can do whatever they like with, and to, us. The Ontario government even passed a 'threshold' law which states that if you're injured in an automobile accident there would be a $15,000 'deductible' from any damages you're awarded. Presumably, pain, something subjective to a sufferer, can be quantified and priced. This allows the lawyers to intimidate victims even though there's a law on intimidation in the Criminal Code. But the U.N., that farcical body, has stamped Canada as 'the best country in the world to live in'.

I don't know if this will ever get to slash.dot for publication as my mouse keeps eluding my control and errors keep appearing in this 'scoop'."
Privacy

Submission + - Direct marketing using airline bookings

Submitted by Overtone
Overtone writes: Air travelers have to give their real name to fly. New advertising startup Jetera has formed a business to exploit this. In their words "Jetera's patent-pending offering is based on the merging of airline passenger reservation information with consumer data provided by third parties to create a detailed record of the traveller very soon after a flight has been booked. The record will then be associated with one or more relevant groups of goods and services, triggering the dispatch to the traveller via various media of marketing and information content before, during and after the flight." This means direct mailing to your home and ads on the seatback screen in front of you. Jetera plans to launch with their first airline customer by the end of 2007. Ouch! Can a groundswell of slashdotters force them to offer a 5-year opt-out on their website?
OS X

Submission + - Leopard, Hi-Def, and DRM

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: With all the controversy about the horrors of Vista DRM on HD content, I have not heard a peep about playing HD content on OS X Leopard. Will Apple have to implement the same strict controls as Vista because the Studios "forced" them too? Steve stated Apple loves Blu-Ray, but what are the playback restrictions going to be?
Spam

Spam is Back With A Vengence 510

Posted by CmdrTaco from the bring-me-my-bazooka dept.
Ant writes "The Red Tape Chronicles reports that just last December (2006), the FTC published an optimistic state-of-spam report. It cites research indicating spam had leveled off or even dropped during the previous year. It now appears spammers had simply gone back to the drawing board. There's more spam now than ever before. In fact, there's twice as much spam now as opposed to this time last year. And the messages themselves are causing more trouble. About half of all spam sent now is "image spam," containing server-clogging pictures that are up to 10 times the size of traditional text spam. And most image spam is stock-related, pump-and-dump scams which can harm investors who don't even use e-mail. About one-third of all spam is stock spam now."
Power

How to Protect a Home When Away in Winter? 433

Posted by Zonk from the i-suggest-unseen-servant dept.
kidMike writes "I have just accepted a new job in another state, requiring me to relocate. I'm going to keep my house in New England. As I watch the winter storm problems and electrical outages across the country, how do Slashdotters protect their houses (or cabins) when they are away in the winter? Is there a device that will call me if the temp in the house drops below a certain level? How about a broken pipe flooding the house? How can I keep advised of problems happening hundreds of miles away? (There will still be broadband at the house.)"
Slashdot.org

Submission + - The Perfect General Lab

Submitted by
wdhowellsr
wdhowellsr writes: "I am currently setting up a lab that will need to provide me with the ability to test equipment for electronic systems from low voltage dc to super high voltage ac. I'm currently getting a Fluke 43b meter to be the primary testing equipment and will be wiring the entire lab to every possible variation of ac and dc voltage. My question to you is what would you consider the perfect lab not just for electronics but for computers, chemistry, and biology. I've tried to find resources on the web that would give me information regarding this but have been unable to find anything. Hold Nothing Back, William D. Howell"
Wii

Submission + - Interlink sues Nintendo on Wiimote

Submitted by
Patent-Monkey
Patent-Monkey writes: "Dvorak reports on his blog that Nintendo is being sued by Interlink on its Wiimote using US patent 6,850,221. Interlink has successfully partnered with Microsoft on XBox. While this may be stresful for Nintendo, Interlink's claims cover "a housing for location at least partly between a first finger and a thumb of a user's hand...a contoured step having a first face for generally providing a rest location for the first finger of the user's hand..."."
Google

Submission + - Google not in bed with CIA

Submitted by
shadowmage13
shadowmage13 writes: "Slashdot previously reported on claims that Google has secret involvement with the CIA. Opposing these claims that Google is "in bed" with the CIA, a blog post from Matt Cutts' blog says that the statements are completely untrue in the classic lighthearted Google defense fashion. How much reason is there to still worry or is it pretty clear that this blog post is true?"
Space

Submission + - NASA fears for Shuttle computers at year rollover

Submitted by dm6079
dm6079 writes: It appears that they've never had a shuttle in space on December 31. According to this NY Times article, the shuttle computer systems would have to be reset on January 1st. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/08/science/space/08 shutscrub.html?_r=1&oref=slogin They are rather hesitant to do that while the craft is in the middle of a mission. Are the systems that archaic or is NASA just hyper-paranoid ?
Supercomputing

Submission + - CPUShare pays for spare CPU cycles

Submitted by sylvainsf
sylvainsf writes: Beta project CPUShare [cpushare.com] is putting together a framework that pays users for spare CPU cycles much like Folding@Home. While details like whether this would even cover the increased energy costs of running the CPU at 100% haven't been determined, the concept is interesting and could provide a competitor for IBM's Blue Gene [ibm.com] capacity on demand services.
Microsoft

Submission + - 50% Of North American PCs Cannot Run Windows Vista

Submitted by
the_recipe_2k6
the_recipe_2k6 writes: "From http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2068351,00.as p

"About half of the average business PCs in North America are unable to meet the minimum requirements for Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system, while 94 percent do not meet the system requirements for Vista Premium."

Looks like the pretty aggresive numbers Redmond's putting forth (20% Vista adoption in 2007) might be hampered by a small problem... actually getting machines to *run* Vista."

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