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German Police Arrest Admin of Tor Anonymity Server 428

Posted by Zonk from the good-guys-never-win dept.
An anonymous reader writes "In a recent blog posting, a German operator of a Tor anonymous proxy server revealed that he was arrested by German police officers at the end of July. Showing up at his house at midnight on a Sunday night, police cuffed and arrested him in front of his wife and seized his equipment. In a display of both bitter irony and incompetence, the police did not take or shut-down the Tor server responsible for the traffic they were interested in, which was located in a data center, over 500km away. In the last year, Germany has passed a draconian new anti-security research law and raided seven different data centers to seize Tor servers. While back in 2003, A German court ordered the developers of a different anonymity network to build a back-door into their system."
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Submission + - Can open source games make money? 2

Submitted by rucs_hack
rucs_hack writes: I'm trying to code a multi platform online game, and I've been involved in discussions on the viability of open source as a model for a games development house. I'm unconvinced as to its viability, after all, I'm thinking business here. I want to make money, but I'm also well aware of the power of the open source community. I'm a fan of open source, but I see no examples of profitable businesses emerging in the gaming sphere. I don't have many people around with good understanding of game development and open source business models, so I throw the question open to the slashdot crowd, can a commercially viable game company be founded on the principles and practice of open source?
The Almighty Buck

Submission + - The World's Most Polluted Sites

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Hugh Pickens
Hugh Pickens writes: "Blacksmith Institute has just published their annual list of the world's most polluted sites. Sumqayit in Azerbaijan leads the list with its toxic legacy of heavy metal, oil and chemical contamination from its days as a center of chemical production with local Azeris suffering cancer rates 22 to 51 percent higher than their countrymen "As much as 120,000 tons of harmful emissions were released [in Sumqayit] on an annual basis, including mercury," says Richard Fuller, founder of Blacksmith. "There are huge untreated dumps of industrial sludge." Blacksmith compiles their list by comparing the toxicity of the contamination, the likelihood of it getting into humans and the number of people affected. An article from Scientific American says that despite the massive pollution, it would be relatively easy and cheap to clean up the most dangerous hazards at these contaminated sites. For example, it would cost just $15,000 to save an estimated 350 lives by simply digging up radioactive contaminated soil from the Mayak plutonium facility that had been deposited on the shore of the Techa River in the Russian town of Muslyomova. Similar cost-effective efforts are underway across the globe. "For about $200, the cost of a refrigerator, we are able to save someone's life," Fuller says."
Editorial

Submission + - When Was The Exact Day Slashdot Jumped The Shark? (oreillynet.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: by Noah Gift in Opinion from O'Reilly OnLamp Blog: "I remember in the early 2000's, Slashdot was THE geek website, but something has changed and it appears they have lost the magic. ...I find their stories trite, boring and dare I say, irrelevant to IT? What is your best bet to the cause of their demise?

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