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Employee "Disciplined" for Installing BitCoin Software on Federal Webservers-> 1

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Fluffeh
Fluffeh writes "Around a year ago, a person working for the ABC in Australia with the highest levels of access to systems got caught caught with his fingers on the CPU cycles. The staffer had installed BitCoin mining software on the systems used by the Australian broadcaster. While the story made a bit of a splash at the time, it was finally announced today that the staffer hadn't been sacked, but was merely being disciplined by his manager and having his access to systems restricted. All the stories seem a little vague as to what he actually installed however — on one side he installed the software on a public facing websever, and the ABC itself admits "As this software was for a short time embedded within pages on the ABC website, visitors to these pages may have been exposed to the Bitcoin software" and "the Coalition (current Opposition Parties) was planning on quizzing the ABC further about the issue, including filing a request for the code that would have been downloaded to users’ machines", but on the other side there is no mention of the staffer trying to seed a BitCoin mining botnet through the site, just that mining software had been installed."
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Journalists Targeted and Harassed by Chicago PD During NATO Protest->

Submitted by phx_zs
phx_zs writes "Numerous "citizen journalists" who have been streaming live video of the NATO and G8 meeting protests in Chicago have reported being followed, harassed, unlawfully detained and searched by the Chicago Police.
Video has surfaced showing one of these incidents occurring, during which the journalists say they were handcuffed, interrogated, and had their equipment destroyed."
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Comment: Re:It's stupid to compare to Facebook's profit (Score 1) 423

by NSN A392-99-964-5927 (#40052449) Attached to: Facebook IPO Stumbles Out of the Gate

I can understand you became voted as a Troll. 5. Most people would have voted you up with mod points if you did not refer to Zuckerberg as a geek. He is not a geek and never will he nor facebook. It was just and idea between friends which expanded. Since when does that make one a geek? Facebook is like Jamie Dimond of JP Morgan Chase.

I should shut up now before I start going on a corruption rant! :)

Comment: Take a leaf out my Special Forces manual (Score 1) 466

by NSN A392-99-964-5927 (#40052239) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Wrist Watch For the Tech Minded

The only watch to wear is a Suunto with a Black Storm Professional and my friends at RV near 42 commando do these http://www.rvops.co.uk/electronics-80/suunto-watches-26. If however you are in another country you can find an official supplier.

Besides having a Rolex Sub-Mariner with a beautiful Blue Dial etc that cost me over £12,000.00, it is only worn for "special occasions".

My advice is get a Black Storm Professional from GWS or Traser H3 internationally just google it.

It shall serve you well along with a Suunto!

United States

In Nothing We Trust 1

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Hugh Pickens writes
Hugh Pickens writes writes "Ron Fournier and Sophie Quinton write in the National Journal that seven in 10 Americans believe that the country is on the wrong track; eight in 10 are dissatisfied with the way the nation is being governed, only 23 percent have confidence in banks, and just 19 percent have confidence in big business. Less than half the population expresses “a great deal” of confidence in the public-school system or organized religion. “We have lost our gods,” says Laura Hansen. "We’ve lost it—that basic sense of trust and confidence—in everything.” Humans are coded to create communities, and communities beget institutions. What if, in the future, they don’t? People could disconnect, refocus inward, and turn away from their social contract. Already, many are losing trust. If society can’t promise benefits for joining it, its members may no longer feel bound to follow its rules. But history reminds us that America’s leaders can draw the nation together to solve problems. At a moment of gaping income inequality, when the country was turbulently transitioning from a farm economy to a factory one, President Theodore Roosevelt reminded Americans, “To us, as a people, it has been granted to lay the foundations of our national life.” At the height of the Great Depression, President Franklin Roosevelt chastised the business and political leaders who had led the country into ruin. “These dark days will be worth all they cost us if they teach us that our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men," said FDR. “Restoration calls, however, not for changes in ethics alone. This Nation asks for action, and action now.""
Desktops (Apple)

Mac Flashback attack began with Wordpress blogs->

Submitted by beaverdownunder
beaverdownunder writes "Alexander Gostev, head of the global research and analysis team at Kaspersky, says that “tens of thousands of sites powered by WordPress were compromised. How this happened is unclear. The main theories are that bloggers were using a vulnerable version of WordPress or they had installed the ToolsPack plug-in.”"
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Communications

Tethr puts disaster-zone worldwide connectivity into your backpack->

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shmorhay
shmorhay writes "Aaron Huslage, an experienced disaster-zone communications expert, has used the lessons learned from setting up wireless networks in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 to create an open-source communications hub packed in a waterproof Pelican box that will help first responders link to the outside world from within crisis zones. See the BBC news article at http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120413-communicating-in-a-crisis and see his application for funding at http://newschallenge.tumblr.com/post/19450685278/tethr-evolving-networks and also at http://angel.co/tethr ."
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Hardware

Terahertz CMOS video camera->

Submitted by zigfreed
zigfreed writes "From IEMN, STMicroelectronics, and the University of Wuppertal comes a 1024 pixel terahertz camera capable of 25fps. Fabricated on 65nm, it won't give a resolution good enough for the TSA but will allow new applications to be developed in the 0.6 to 1THz range."
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