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by BosstonesOwn (#43064605) Attached to: Can Valve's 'Bossless' Company Model Work Elsewhere?

There is a real need for dedicated IT staff.Especially if your building customers environments.

I'd hate to say it but I have seen this first hand. Firstly security is ignored, and secondly there has to e a level of over site.

Im a systems admin for a fortune 500 and in charge of security, you don't even know how many times "staff" have setup a replica of the customers environment and missed the security aspect or even forgot huge parts of the environment or even misconfigured half of it and we could not replicate bugs. My team goes in and notices this stuff off the bat.

There needs to be dedicated staff because core infrastructure should not be pieced together, It should be engineered, when not properly engineered and just thrown together based on what people want.... This usually ends up ina giant mess, which dedicated staff are called in to unravel and repair.

EU

+ - EU's Neelie Kroes Says ACTA Is Doomed ->

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judgecorp
judgecorp writes "Europe's Commissioner for the Digital Agenda Neelie Kroes has stated that ACTA is doomed. The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement was widely protested but can only come into force if it is passed by all EU member states. Kroes now says she wants to make the Internet safe but will have to do this without the benefit of ACTA."
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Google

+ - Oracle Vs Google: The issue of copyrighting ideas->

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "The issue of Oracle challenging Google on the use of Java APIs may, on the surface, appear to be a case of IT corporate establishing themselves on a common turf. However, the implications of these digital corporate wars are serious. The ongoing battle is for Oracle to gain complete control on Java programming language and for Google to establish that the components of the Java language it has used were already in the open source domain.
In fact, the Java programming language that Oracle is seeking to gain complete control over was not even developed by it. Oracle has technically gained copyrights on Java APIs through its acquisition of Sun Microsystems, in 2010, the original developers of Java."

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+ - Syrian regime uses Skype to fire Trojan at opposition activists->

Submitted by concertina226
concertina226 writes "Further evidence has emerged that the Syrian Government is targeting opposition activists using a well-known remote access Trojan distributed through bogus Skype calls.

A blog this week by Mikko Hypponen of antivirus company F-Secure describes receiving the hard drive image of a Syrian dissident’s PC which turned out to have been infected with the widely-available ‘Xtreme RAT’, a backdoor tool for remotely controlling and accessing PCs."

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Piracy

+ - The holes in a News Corp/NDS pay TV pirate's defence->

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Presto Vivace
Presto Vivace writes "In response to the recent allegations of pay TV piracy on Frontline, Panorama, and the Australian Financial Review, News Corp/NDS has said that they have consistently been vindicated by the courts. However, in relation to the Echostar case there are significant holes in their defense. For example, much of Echostar's most compelling evidence was excluded by the statue of limitations, and the jury never got to hear it.

In interviews with the BBC Panorama program and emails with the Financial Review, Oliver Kömmerling said that when he downloaded the Canal Plus file on DR7, it showed up on his computer directory as having been created at exactly the same time as the identical Canal Plus file that the NDS Black Hat team created in Haifa nine months before – July 6, 1998, at 15 seconds past 4pm.

There are 23 million seconds in a year. Two identical files, the only ones not held by Canal Plus. What are the odds that they would be created at exactly the same moment?

There is additional evidence that Tarnovsky posted the Nargra hack on the internet, if additional evidence is needed:

In the 2009 interview, Tarnovsky denied putting any code on the internet. However, he told the Financial Review that he had “played around” with the EchoStar Nagra code – in fact, he had made it work better. “Sometimes I see through the algorithms, like, and stuff. Like the cypher in the Nagra chip. They had some shift going on at the beginning and the end. And I totally realised, well, wait a second, I can go the reverse, I can skip it, remove it, and just shift the other way. And I totally removed like – I don’t know how many clock cycles of their code. And their algorithm was like – 20, 15 times faster.”

A Swiss hacker, Jan Saggiori, later testified that two days after the Canal Plus file appeared on the DR7 website in March 1999, Tarnovsky sent him a file with part of the system code for the smartcard used by EchoStar.

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Science

+ - Microsubmarines May Help Clean Up Oil Spills->

Submitted by Zothecula
Zothecula writes "If anything good came out of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, it was that it got people thinking about technologies for cleaning up future spills. While things like magnetic soap, nanosponges, and autonomous robots are all in the works, a group of scientists recently announced the results of their research into another possibility – oil droplet-gathering microsubmarines."
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United States

+ - Mississippi Teens Jailed After Video Recording Police Investigation From Balcony->

Submitted by suraj.sun
suraj.sun writes "Two Mississippi teenagers were arrested after video recording a police investigation from their balcony Tuesday. Pearl Police, who charged up the stairs to arrest the teens and burst through their apartment door without a warrant after a shooting took place in the parking lot below, charged the teens with disorderly conduct. Terrell Madison and his twin sister Shanell were jailed for several hours before they were released. Police returned their phone but kept their SIM card, which is unlawful to do without a subpoena.

According to WLBT, "The Colony Park Apartment resident said she and her twin brother Terrell were on their apartment balcony when Tuesday's tragic police shooting unfolded. But she said minutes later they were being manhandled by officers after they saw her brother recording the scene with his cell phone. "The police came up here after they took his phone. They slammed him down and arrested him, and I'm like 'Why are y'all arresting him', and then they grabbed me and slammed me also and arrested me," said Shanell Madison. She said they didn't know why they were targeted in their own home.""

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+ - The 86 million invisible unemployed->

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RADLJKHKFF
RADLJKHKFF writes "A person is counted as part of the labor force if they have a job or have looked for one in the last four weeks. Only about 64% of Americans over the age of 16 currently fall into that category, according to the Labor Department. That's the lowest labor force participation rate since 1984. Last year there were 86 million people who didn't have a job and weren't consistently looking for one, according to Labor Department data."
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Censorship

+ - Pirate Bay, IsoHunt blocked in India->

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unmole
unmole writes "It seems that India's Department of Telecom has instructed ISP's to block popular torrent trackers like the Pirate Bay and IsoHunt. Visitors now see a page (Screenshot: http://bayimg.com/PaoFFaaDg) informing that "This site has been blocked as per instructions from Department of Telecom (DOT) .", with no additional details. The Department of Telecom has not made any public announcement to this effect. This comes months after "an Indian court gave the green signal for prosecuting social networking sites (http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/01/14/1257223/india-oks-censoring-facebook-google-microsoft-yahoo)."
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+ - Alan Turing papers on code breaking released by GCHQ->

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peetm
peetm writes "Two 70-year-old papers by Alan Turing on the theory of code breaking have been released by the government's communications headquarters, GCHQ.

It is believed Turing wrote the papers while at Bletchley Park working on breaking German Enigma codes.

A GCHQ mathematician said the fact that the contents had been restricted "shows what a tremendous importance it has in the foundations of our subject"."

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