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Submission + - Geeks against Jihad (commentarymagazine.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 02, 2007 @05:29PM

An anonymous reader writes: Thomas X. Hammes is a retired Marine colonel and the author of a well-regarded work on modern war: The Sling and the Stone: On War in the 21st Century . He is also a fellow participant in an online discussion forum on military affairs called the Warlord Loop. (I) was so taken with one of his recent postings on how to battle jihadists on the Internet (a major venue for Islamist organizing and proselytizing) that I asked him if he would adapt it for contentions readers. He kindly agreed.

Submission + - Anti-Hacker Companies

Submitted by

Jason Mark

on Wednesday May 30, 2007 @08:47AM

Jason Mark writes: "A client of mine's website was hacked last week, and a few pages were changed to Russian (I *think*). This week, they got a call from a supposedly reputable "anti-hacker monitoring service", which struck me as suspicious. Has anyone had similar experiences, and if so what company called you afterwards? Is there a trend here? NOTE FOR EDITORS: I'm not *quite* sure about the categories... sorry if this is the wrong one. Also, the name of the company that called my client was www.scanalert.com, BUT I purposely didn't mention it because if it IS a coincidence, I don't want to hurt an innocent company with a potentially bad Slashdot story, ya know? Thanks,"

Submission + - Firefox Add-Ons Are A New Vector For Crackers

Submitted by wiredog on Wednesday May 30, 2007 @08:45AM

wiredog writes: From The Washington Post's Security Fix blog, an entry on the ways in which Firefox add-ons, especially ones such as Google Toolbar, can be used to crack the security of a system.

Submission + - New processors from AMD

Submitted by Johnny21J on Wednesday May 30, 2007 @08:42AM

Johnny21J writes: http://www.u-trade.org/news/computers/new-processo rs-from-amd_50.html

Submission + - Court:: breaking copy protection permissible

Submitted by

Erik Norgaard

on Wednesday May 30, 2007 @08:16AM

Erik Norgaard writes: "ArsTechnica reports that the district court of Helsinki, Finland, has ruled that CSS is not an effective copy protection mechanism. The EU copyright directive prohibits the creation and distribution of code that can circumvent effective copyright protection schemes. The court have found that CSS is ineffective. No other court have previously tried to interpret the term "effective technological protection"."

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