40332233
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avxo writes:
According to an article on the New Zealand Herald, Kim Dotcom claims that his team has evidence showing that the Department of Homeland Security served a search warrant on Megaupload in 2010, forcing it to preserve pirated movies. According to Mr. Dotcom those preserved movies are the center of the latest legal battle. He added: “[t]he FBI used the fact the files were still in the account of the ... user to get the warrant to seize our own domains. This is outrageous.”
6384577
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avxo writes:
This boy managed to get through security and fly without showing any kind of ID using his mother's credit card to buy a ticket in her name. Despite the hubbub about the TSA requiring approved IDs, to verify identity and cross-check names against secret lists and how all that is supposed to make us more secure, the TSA's own bloggers are trying to spin this as some kind of success since "no dangerous items made it on the plane." Makes perfect sense, no?
5059005
submission
avxo writes:
Bruce Schneier covers a new cryptanalytic related-key attack on AES that is better than brute force with a complexity of 2^119. According to an e-mail by the authors: 'We also expect that a careful analysis may reduce the complexities. As a preliminary result, we think that the complexity of the attack on AES-256 can be lowered from 2^119 to about 2^110.5 data and time. We believe that these results may shed a new light on the design of the key-schedules of block ciphers, but they pose no immediate threat for the real world applications that use AES.'
1718933
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avxo writes:
The new MacBook is, by most accounts, a sleek machine and pretty fast for a laptop. Except when you run Windows in BootCamp, that is. Because then, if you try to listen to any audio, all you will get is horrible skips. While this sounds like something that should be Microsoft's fault, the guy behind the Windows driver for the PS3EYE camera decided to do some debugging, and not only figured the root cause out, but instead of waiting for Apple to fix this in the next version of the BootCamp drivers, simply decided to release the fix himself!
If only he could fix Vista...
