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An Israeli Electronic/Cyber Strike Could End Iran,->

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MarkWhittington
MarkWhittington writes "If and when (and it is increasingly seeming like the latter) Israel attacks Iran, the first sign will not consist of explosions rising from Iranian nuclear and missile sites. Instead the first sign of an attack will be Iran's power and communications going down.

In effect, Iran as it exists today will die, not with a bang, but with a whimper as the lights go out and as the phones go silent. Israel has developed a sophisticated electronic and cyber war force that would take down Iran's power grid and phone system in the first moments of an attack. Welcome to the 21st Century way of waging war, which in one way could be as devastating as a nuclear attack."
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Encryption

Full disk encryption is too good, says US intellig-> 4

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MrSeb
MrSeb writes "A new research paper, titled "The growing impact of full disk encryption on digital forensics," illustrates the difficulty that CSI teams have in obtaining enough digital data to build a solid case against criminals. According to the researchers, one of which is a member of US-CERT — the US government's primary defense against internet and digital threats — there are three main problems with full disk encryption (FDE): First, evidence-gathering goons can turn off the computer (for transportation) without realizing it's encrypted, and thus can't get back at the data (unless the arrestee gives up his password, which he doesn't have to do); second, if the analysis team doesn't know that the disk is encrypted, it can waste hours trying to read something that's ultimately unreadable; and finally, in the case of hardware-level disk encryption, tampering with the device can trigger self-destruction of the data. The paper does go on to suggest some ways to ameliorate these issues, but ultimately the researchers aren't hopeful: "Research is needed to develop new techniques and technology for breaking or bypassing full disk encryption.""
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You know you don't have 4G?->

Submitted by joshgnosis
joshgnosis writes "The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has clarified a confusing press release from December 2010, that many interpreted as meaning that LTE, HSPA+ and WiMax technologies could now be considered as being "4G".

According to the ITU, it is aware that companies are calling their technology 4G, but it is not considered true 4G, which remains undefined at this point."
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Google+ 'hangout' doesn't prompt for webcam access-> 6

Submitted by MikeUW
MikeUW writes "So I've had a G+ account for a couple days now...just for kicks, I tried the tool to 'create a hangout'. A window pops open displaying my webcam feed, and from there I can start 'hanging' out and wait for one of my two friends to join.

In doing so, at no point did the web browser (Chrome) prompt me to allow access to the webcam or mic. This makes me wonder...if Google can do it, anyone can, and not everyone has the best of intentions.

I don't see anything in Chrome's settings that would allow me to determine if webcams are automatically allowed...a quick search hasn't turned up anything obvious. I'm not the most tech savvy user, but I'm also not that dumb either. If I don't know how to prevent this, how could the majority of web users (e.g., my parents who are far less tech savvy than me)."
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