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Security

Submission + - Blackberry "spy" software released

Noryungi writes: "Maybe the French were onto something after all. It turns out that there is a software able to spy on Blackberries, and record voice conversations and all messages (emails or SMS text message) that transit through the portable devices. Of course, the software has to be installed by the owner of the Blackberry, but it would not be surprising to find out that someone has found a way to silently auto-install that software on RIM devices."
Red Hat Software

Submission + - OpenBSD founder slams OLPC, Red Hat, Marvell

Noryungi writes: Theo DeRaadt, the founder of OpenBSD, has made public an email sent to OLPC and Red Hat. In this email, he strongly condemns the willingness of both Red Hat and OLPC, who signed an NDA with Marvell in order to user this company's WiFi chips in the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) project. Choice quote: "It is clear that your choices are not about opening up Marvell, but simply commercially expedient and hurtful to our common cause [open source]."
It's funny.  Laugh.

Submission + - Giant insects invading Germany

Noryungi writes: It seems the alien invasion of the Earth has just started! Giant insects have been spotted roaming the German countryside!! Let the "I, for one, welcome our new giant insectoid overlords!" joke contest begin!
United States

Submission + - No one is in charge of finding Bin Laden

Noryungi writes: Well, it's been 5 years since 9/11, and it seems no one, in the US Government, is tasked with finding Bin Laden.

Choice quote:
Today, however, no one person is in charge of the overall hunt for bin Laden with the authority to direct covert CIA operations to collect intelligence and to dispatch JSOC units. Some counterterrorism officials find this absurd. "There's nobody in the United States government whose job it is to find Osama bin Laden!" one frustrated counterterrorism official shouted. "Nobody!"


Remember: this is five years after 9/11. The incompetence of the current United States administration never ceases to amaze me.

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