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Comment Slides are sanitized (Score 3, Informative) 134

by prxp (#32803178) Attached to: ATM Vendors Threaten, Stop Research Presentation
According to TFA:

Even though this is not the first time that ATM vendors prevented a security researcher to publicly disclose findings about flaws in their devices at a conference, this instance is really surprising, since Chiesa held this same presentation at a couple of security conferences already, and the slides he employed are also available online.

The thing is these slides are sanitized, the details of the ATM attack were removed.

Does anybody know where to find a non-sanitized version?
Google

Submission + - SPAM: Google AdSense to ban non-Google email addresses?

Submitted by
destinyland
destinyland writes: "Google is requiring its 10 million AdSense users to open a new "Google account" or change their email address if they're not using Gmail. Why? To make it convenient for them "to use other Google products" (and provide "enhanced" security) according to the new AdSense login screen. Last year Google increased their ad revenue by 44%, to over $2.6 billion. This makes them the fastest-growing media company in America, and apparently they're now hoping to encourage 10 million publishers to try Google's other online services."
Link to Original Source
Books

Submission + - Amazon Pays $4,000,000 for J.K. Rowling Manuscript 1

Submitted by
theodp
theodp writes: "If Technology Evangelist was displeased with Amazon's dicey calculation of savings based upon a comparison of $9.99 Kindle e-book prices to NYT best-seller hardcopy list prices, imagine if the e-tailer had the chance to tout Kindle savings of 99.9998% based on the $4 million Amazon paid for The Beedle of the Bard, a 157-page handmade book of five wizarding fairy tales penned by Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling. Unfortunately, a Kindle offering doesn't appear to be in the cards — according to the terms of the charity auction, the 'buyer may not publish or reproduce this work or any extract from it,' although Amazon is making plot spoilers and photos available. In a nicely-timed coincidence, the book — which fetched the highest price ever paid at auction for a contemporary literary manuscript — went on pre-auction exhibition in NYC around the same time Amazon execs were in town for the Kindle launch. In October, Amazon's CFO told analysts that Harry Potter sales were good for revenue but bad for gross margins."
The Internet

Submission + - Former Wikimedia COO "was convicted felon"

Submitted by MutantEnemy
MutantEnemy writes: After banging on at Wikipedia for pretty frivolous reasons, The Register finally has something serious to say: they allege that the former Chief Operating Officer of the Wikimedia Foundation was a convicted felon. Jimbo Wales, "spiritual leader" of the project, has discussed this matter on the Foundation mailing list, denied that anyone in the Foundation knew about this until The Register broke its story, and promised to personally pay for any losses in the (as he sees it, unlikely) event that said COO stole anything.
Government

Submission + - Brazilian voting machines will switch to Linux (globo.com)

Submitted by doti
doti writes: "The intention is to facilitate the audit of the operating system from stakeholders on to ensure that all systems are reliable and secure, reduce the costs of acquiring new electronic ballot boxes because of the use of an operating system is free, and have a single operating system to simplify and reduce the cost of developing, testing and approval of the systems of the electronic ballot boxes."

Here's the original story, and the Google translation.
Windows

Submission + - World's smallest Windows XP system? (windowsfordevices.com)

Submitted by nerdyH
nerdyH writes: An Asian PC manufacturer is readying what it claims will be the world's smallest XP system. The Icop eBox-4300 measures 4.5 x 4.5 x 1.4 inches, has a 500MHz x86-compatible Via processor, and supports up to 1GB or RAM. In fairness, the recently updated OQO appears to be a smidge-let teensier in volume and heft — but costs up to 10 times more, depending on spec.
Slashback

Submission + - Common Slashdot Acronyms? (or CSA)

Submitted by cbart387
cbart387 writes: I come to slashdot because it usually has a good mesh of news. However, one of the offputting things is the amount of acronyms used. I'm not refering to the technical acronyms, I know it comes with the territory of computer science. Rather I mean the Aim-like acronyms.

My question is, If the slashdot users could provide common acronyms used on this site? It would help my understanding (and I'm sure others).
Space

Submission + - Time dimension about to become space-like (arxivblog.com)

Submitted by
KentuckyFC
KentuckyFC writes: "The Universe is about to flip from having three dimensions of space and one of time to having four dimensions of space. That's the conclusion of a group of Spanish astrophysicists who have calculated that observers inside such a Universe would see it expanding and accelerating away from them just before the flip (abstract, full paper pdf on the physics arXiv). The curious thing is that this accelerated expansion is exactly what astronomers have been seeing in the last few years and been unable to explain."
The Media

Submission + - US Spies Penetrate Al Qaeda's Intranet, Until.....

Submitted by ahess247
ahess247 writes: The New York Sun today has an interesting story detailing how U.S. intelligence agencies had penetrated a network of computers they called "The Obelisk" which served as the distribution channel for video messages from Osama Bin-Laden and Ayman Al-Zawahiri, but which was also used for routine communications and administrative messages to lower-level operatives around the world. But they lost this revealing look into the terrorist network's communications and operations after a Sept. 7 video message was leaked to ABC News. The leak revealed that the network used to distribute the video had been penetrated by US Spies, who watched helplessly in real time as the entire system was shut down. Said one anonymous officer: "We saw the whole thing shut down because of this leak," the official said. "We lost an important keyhole into the enemy."
The Media

Submission + - More girls than boys in the Aractic (guardian.co.uk)

Submitted by
flexi7
flexi7 writes: "There is a recent article by the guardian that is discussing strange birth rate statistics in the Arctic area (Greenland, Canada & Rusia). Quoting from the article, "Twice as many girls as boys are being born in some Arctic villages because of high levels of man-made chemicals in the blood of pregnant women, according to scientists from the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (Amap)".

To be honest, I am confused whether to classify this as good news or bad news.

This is the link to the article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/gender/story/0,,2167005,00.html"
Windows

Stealthy Windows Update Raises Serious Concerns 362

Posted by Zonk from the for-your-own-good dept.
UniversalVM writes "What is the single biggest issue that bothers open source advocates about proprietary software? It is probably the ability of the vendor to pull stunts like Microsoft's recent stealth software update and subsequent downplaying of any concerns. Their weak explanation seems to be a great exercise in circular logic: 'Had we failed to update the service automatically, users would not have been able to successfully check for updates and, in turn, users would not have had updates installed automatically or received expected notifications.' News.com is reporting that all of the updated files on both XP and Vista appears to be in windows update itself. This is information that was independently uncovered by users and still not released by Microsoft."
Software

Submission + - Breathalyzer source code revealed (duiblog.com)

Submitted by Nonillion
Nonillion writes: New Jersey attorney Evan M. Levow was finally able to get an order from the Supreme Court of New Jersey forcing the manufacturer of the popular Draeger AlcoTest 7110 to reveal the source code. Levow turned the code over to experts, Base One Technologies, to anaylze. Initially, Base One found that, contrary to Draeger's protestations that the code was proprietary, the code consisted mostly of general algorithms: "That is, the code is not really unique or proprietary." In other words, the "trade secrets" claim which manufacturers were hiding behind was completely without merit.

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