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Submission + - Dreamlab cracks wireless keyboard encryption (heise-security.co.uk)

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Felix
Felix writes: "Wireless keyboards and mice are becoming an increasingly common sight on desks. However, wireless hardware carries large hidden risks. Dreamlab Technologies has shown that it is possible to capture and decrypt keystrokes, meaning that user names, passwords, bank details or confidential correspondence can be very easily eavesdropped. Checkout http://www.dreamlab.net/ for further information."
The Courts

Submission + - Daylight Savings Time Puts Kid in Jail for 12 Days

Submitted by Jherek Carnelian
Jherek Carnelian writes: Cody Webb was jailed for calling in a bomb threat to his Hempstead Area high school (near Pittsburgh). He spent 12 days in lockup until the authorities realized that their caller-id log was off an hour because of the new Daylight Savings Time rules and that Cody had only called one hour prior to the actual bomb threat. Perhaps it took so long because of the principal's Catch-22 attitude about Cody's guilt — she said, 'Well, why should we believe you? You're a criminal. Criminals lie all the time.'
Announcements

Submission + - At Least 20 Dead in Virginia Tech Shooting

Submitted by StarvingSE
StarvingSE writes: Virginia Tech police state that at least 20 are dead in a campus shooting school officials are describing as a "monumental tragedy." From the article:

"Today the university was struck with a tragedy that we consider of monumental proportions," said university President Charles Steger. "The university is shocked and indeed horrified."

The attacks mark the worst school shooting incident since 1999 when Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris killed 12 students and a teacher before killing themselves at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado

This story is a little off-topic on a technology-related site, but I'm sure quite a few readers attend or are alumni of Virginia Tech.
The Almighty Buck

Submission + - With Chip Factories, China's Gain is India's Loss

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narramissic
narramissic writes: "According to a recent Gartner report, India's 'poor infrastructure' will likely prevent it from winning any chip factory projects from major companies this year. 'Intel's decision to move to China was driven mainly by China's superior infrastructure facilities, compared with those in India, and Intel's need to be closer to its customers in China and Japan, even though China's supply of semiconductor talent is considered to be weaker than India's,' said Gartner analyst Ramamoorthy in the report. From the article:

With the world's second largest population, India is battling to gain a foothold in manufacturing, which China dominates. In the semiconductor business, factory investments represent multi-billion dollar projects and thousands of technical jobs. Although there is no shortage of labor talent in the nation, chip production has not caught on as investors remain focused on the Pacific Rim.
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Security

Submission + - Can an iPod bring your company down?

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BobB
BobB writes: "The recent buzz about security threats posed by iPods to corporations has reinforced the need for IT managers to treat these devices like any other removable media that employees with malicious intent can use to extract sensitive data. Following the suggestion recently made by a security company that iPods be banned from the workplace until proper protection is in place, and the emergence of a proof-of-concept iPod virus, it would seem that iPods pose a particularly high risk to corporations that let employees wander into work with these devices strung to their ears. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/040907-ipod- company-security.html"

Feed Laptop thefts expose 40,000 Chicago teachers (theregister.com)

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Identity crisis

A thief walked into the headquarters of Chicage Public Schools (CPS) on Friday, April 6 and grabbed two laptops containing the names and social security numbers of 40,000 teachers. The CPS has released an image of the suspect captured by CCTV and is offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the thief or recovery of the data.

Feed Male Births: Decline In The US And Japan (sciencedaily.com)

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During the past 30 years, the number of male births has decreased each year in the US and Japan. The decline in births is equivalent to 135,000 fewer white males in the US and 127,000 fewer males in Japan over the past three decades and suggest that environmental factors are one explanation for these trends.
Media

Submission + - Drobo equals USB pseudo-RAID

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mcoko
mcoko writes: "I saw this little fella running at Photoshop World in Boston. Drobo is a USB hard drive enclosure that provides full mirrored protection in box. Basically you load it up with 2-4 hard drives of any size and it will mirror data across the drives. Once protection is achieved you can hot swap or loose any drive with out loosing data. If and when a drive is lost or removed the Drobo will re-mirror/reorganize the data to ensure that another drive can be lost. Of course the total storage does not equal that of the drives installed. A simple set of lights indicate when data is completely protected and you can risk loosing one drive. The lights indicate when you are running low on space and when you are not in a protected mode. Check out the community site to read some in depth discussions. Here are a few short reviews."
Privacy

Submission + - Hacker's Case May Add to Students' Privacy Rights

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Article in Inside Higher Ed says the legal loss of a hacker in federal appeals court may result in students at public universities having MORE privacy rights. The hacker lost, but federal appeals court also said he had (generally) a right to privacy on computer in his dorm room:
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/04/09/heck enkamp
Media

Submission + - Web art turned to plagiaristized gold.

Submitted by Moraiat
Moraiat writes: Plagiarism on the internet is tricky business. For some, it's quite profitable. Todd Goliath (Goldman) of David and Goliath Tees has had much of his art discovered to be copied, derived, or blatantly traced(SomethingAwful.com). Shmorky's (Dave Kelly) art was recognized as duplicated by Goliath and the outcry from the online community has been rapidly intensifying over the course of a day. The main story can be found on SomethingAwful's forum, progress is added as the story develops. The artwork in question, the original, and the overlay of it being visibly "traced" (Image) can be found, posted by the real artist, can be found on his forum post.
Other artists are joining Kelly in his plight, Goldman's been copying others' work for many years, only now someone is standing up to him. Goldman's art is self-proclaimed to be random, zany, stupid, and in your face. His self-biography can be seen here.
Bug

Submission + - The TurboTax Solution: Lie on your Tax Return

Submitted by
Reinhard
Reinhard writes: "Getting this message when trying to efile at turbotax.com?

Your Order Can't Be Processed Now. Please try again later.
No worries! Turbotax has a great solution:

Change the following personal information to some fictitious information: First Name, Last Name, Birth Date, Soc. Sec. No.
"
Education

Submission + - Gates to Senate: Education Reform Now

Submitted by
eldavojohn
eldavojohn writes: "Bill Gates appeared before the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions last week and called for education reform. "We simply cannot sustain an economy based on innovation unless our citizens are educated in math, science, and engineering," he said. "As a nation, we should start with this goal: Every child in the United States graduating from high school." From the article, "A federal study released last month found that about a third of high school students fail to take a standard-level curriculum of at least four credits of English and three credits each of social studies, math, and science. Another recent federal study found that 40 percent of high school seniors failed to perform at the basic level on a national math test. And on a national science test, half the twelfth-graders who took the test lacked basic skills.""

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