Mike Gleason - Slashdot User

Submission + - MediaDefender Source code leaked (torrentfreak.com)

Submitted by

chainLynx

on Tuesday September 25, 2007 @11:33AM

chainLynx writes: "In addition to MediaDefender's phone calls and emails, its source code has now been leaked. The MediaDefender-Defenders, the hacker group coordinating the leaks, thanks an anonymous MediaDefender employee for providing them with the information. Ed Felten provides a sobering post on his blog which reminds us that there will probably be a backlash with ordinary users as collateral damage. Nevertheless, Hackers:3 MediaDefender: 0."

Feed Phones on a Plane: FCC still says no (theregister.com)

From feed by registerfeed on Tuesday April 03, 2007 @08:32PM

Hurrah!

The FCC today called time on discussions to unban the use of cell phones onboard planes, prompting mass rejoicing from America's airline passengers.

Submission + - Has Windows Data Execution Protection(DEP) helped?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 03, 2007 @08:25PM

An anonymous reader writes: It has been about two and half years since Microsoft shipped XP Service Pack 2, which enabled software DEP and also supported the NX-bit for hardware-enforced DEP.

The software-enforced DEP was well known in 2004 for being part of the reason that SP2 was slower than SP1, especially on cache-limited CPUs. I myself have begun turning DEP off in the BOOT.INI file on older systems.

The question: Has DEP ever stopped anything, or is it just more useless overhead? I note that I haven't seen Microsoft mention DEP in any recent advisories and Windows continues to be exploited(like last weeks ANI Cursor bug) by system-level holes that DEP was supposed to catch.

Feed New Technology For Manufacturing Flexible Solar Cells (sciencedaily.com)

From feed by sdfeed on Tuesday April 03, 2007 @08:12PM

The University of Delaware's Institute of Energy Conversion has developed new technology for the manufacture of flexible solar cells, which could reduce the costs associated with the use of photovoltaic energy while at the same time expanding possible applications. The system, in which there has been commercial interest, enables the more efficient manufacture of the flexible solar cells in long sheets using roll-to-roll reactors, much like newsprint speeding through a press.

Submission + - Hackers release 250 pgs of 7th Harry Potter Book

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Tuesday April 03, 2007 @06:37PM

Anonymous Coward writes: "There is a torrent link on thepiratebay for a deathly hallows download. Contains the 1st 250 pages. by the time you get this it may be down, I don't kow, and I didn't download it myself. But my friend DID! and it IS real. Thought you'd like to be the first to post it on the web. It's a 1MB word document."

Submission + - why noone wants to work for apple security

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 03, 2007 @06:29PM

An anonymous reader writes: JF applied for a security job at apple that has been open since August 2005. He tells you why it has been open for so long in his blog: http://c9c3.blogspot.com/2007/04/apple-computers.h tml We all know that apple has no clue about security, but who knew it was this bad ?

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