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In Texas, SpyRecon is Wire Tapping 0

Submitted by underpar on Tuesday November 13 2007, @08:02AM

underpar writes ""Shawn Macleod wanted to know where his estranged wife was going on the Internet and what she was writing in e-mails, investigators said, so he secretly installed a program called SpyRecon on her computer that sent him electronic logs with the sites she had visited and messages she had sent. His spying resulted in a four-year prison sentence.""

Minimig: Amiga on FPGA with GPL'd verilog code-> 0

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akkartik

on Thursday August 02 2007, @06:43PM

akkartik writes "Minimig stands for Mini Amiga. Minimig is an FPGA-based re-implementation of the original Amiga 500 hardware. In it's current form, Minimig is a single PCB measuring only 12*12cm which makes it the smallest "Amiga" ever made and the first new "Amiga" in almost 14 years!"
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'Sidejacking ' On WiFi 0

Submitted by ancientribe on Thursday August 02 2007, @05:52PM

ancientribe writes "As if you need another reason not to use WiFi unprotected, here's one: a researcher has released a tool that lets hackers "sidejack" your machine and access your Web accounts. Called Hamster, the tool basically clones the victim's cookies by sniffing their session IDs and controlling their Website accounts.

http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=130 692&WT.svl=news1_2"