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Submission + - Personal data left in Excel sheet on web server

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Alex Dekker

on Friday April 27, 2007 @06:56PM

Alex Dekker writes: "The UK's National Health Service IT program [the catchily-named 'NPfIT'] has come under fire recently for horrific cost overruns [£12.4 billion and counting] and massive under-performance. Not satisfied with that however, they've decided to leave an Excel sheet with large amounts of personal data in a publically accessible directory on a web server. Given that this was on the day that the man in charge of NPfIT, Richard Granger, told the Commons Health Select Committee that "no system can be 100% secure", one wonders if his minions took this as a direct order"

Submission + - How Does One Combat Spam?

Submitted by on Tuesday February 06, 2007 @05:15PM

An anonymous reader writes: Hey Slashdot crowd, I was curious if anyone has any suggestions on offensively dealing with spam. For a couple years I've been fairly lucky — I haven't really been smacked with spam, maybe one spam e-mail a day or so — but recently I've been getting up to 50 junk e-mails per day on most of my addresses. I don't want to change my e-mail address nor my personal domain because of these idiots, so that's out of the question. My e-mail client does a decent job of cleaning it up and putting it in the Junk mail folder, but are there any offensive measures you guys take against a spammer?

Is there any organization or some sort of united front where I may send my junk e-mail to so it can be analyzed or dealt with? Really, anything at all that can be done so I feel like I'm making a difference instead of just bending over and taking it?

Submission + - Alan Cox files patent for DRM

Submitted by

booooh

on Sunday January 14, 2007 @05:08PM

booooh writes: "Alan Cox has filed a patent for DRM (Digital Rights Management).
http://www.freshpatents.com/Rights-management-syst em-dt20050623ptan20050138406.php

A rights management system monitors and controls use of a computer program to prevent use that is not in compliance with acceptable terms.

The nice things about this are:

According to Red Hat's patent pledge they will not license this technology if the patent is granted, but rather will probably sue to avoid others using it.

It can probably be applied to the DRM that is in Vista...

see more details at: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread .php?p=2574359"

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