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Submission + - CPS-3 Encryption Scheme Broken (exophase.com)

Submitted by

x3sphere

on Saturday June 09, 2007 @08:19PM

x3sphere writes: "It's taken awhile, ten years to be exact, but Andreas Naive has successfully managed to break the protection on Capcom's CPS-3 arcade system board. The CPS-3 powered less than a dozen arcade classics, including JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Red Earth, and Street Fighter III.

The security system of the CPS-3 was rather advanced for its time. Any tampering to the game's security cartridge would result in the decryption key being erased, thereby rendering the respective cartridge useless.

So, the decryption is broken, what does this all mean? In one word: Emulation. Now that the decryption task is done, the folks over at MAME have already started work on a CPS-3 emulator."

Submission + - Group says Google the worsr on privacy

Submitted by pcause on Saturday June 09, 2007 @07:32PM

pcause writes: According to this article in the Wall Street Journal (subscription required), a study by Privacy International. While Microsoft, AOL and Yahoo were included, none came close to Google, which was said to be "achieving status as an endemic threat to privacy".

Since Google business and revenue and enhanced by systematically violated your privacy, getting you to install spyware on your Desktop (yes, that is what the toolbar and Google Desktop), and tracking your every web action (why they want you to stay logged in), I guess they don't consider this behavior "evil". As a Privacy International person is quoted as saying, "Under the microscope, it turns out that Google is doing much more with our data than we ever imagined".

Shouldn't we all be concerned about the volume of information about us that Google collects and how they use and abuse it?

Submission + - FLOSS faster than upcoming BPEL4People standard

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 09, 2007 @07:21PM

An anonymous reader writes: It is soon going to be two years when IBM and SAP proposed their WS-BPEL Extension for People in a joint white paper together back in July 2005. Not that they abandoned their original idea of standardizing how to integrate people in BPEL processes: Indeed various companies already implemented their own solution in order to permit role based interaction of process stakeholders. While commercial ones have their proprietary realization for their respective BPEL engines, it is now partial and full open source companies like Active Endpoints or Intalio as well as academic projects that actually do set standards. After all, standards need to be open. Bringing independency to systems, it is nice to see how FLOSS projects — as in the example of BPEL4People — can take the initiative.

Submission + - Asus stuns Computex with $189 laptop (pcpro.co.uk)

Submitted by

slashthedot

on Saturday June 09, 2007 @04:05PM

slashthedot writes: "As if Intel's cheap laptop release last month wasn't enough, Asus sprang a surprise during Intel's Computex keynote today with the announcement of a $189 laptop.
The notebook uses a custom-written Linux operating system, measures roughly 120 x 100 x 30mm (WDH) and weighs only 900g, boots in 15 seconds from its solid-state hard disk. Asus chairman Jonney Shih claimed the 3ePC would be available in all areas of the world, not only developing nations.
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/114773/asus-stuns-comp utex-with-100-laptop.html"

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