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Comment Sound Like a Money Laundering Scheme? (Score 5, Interesting) 412

by InitZero on Tuesday June 21, 2011 @04:55PM (#36519564) Attached to: Paying Hacker Extortion

So you say a mid-sized company paid a $100,000 extortion? That money with 'poof', right? Untraceable, right? Call me the suspicious sort but are we sure this is extortion and not embezzlement?

Cheers,
Matt

Aussie City Braces For Worst Flood In 118 Years 214

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday January 11, 2011 @10:03AM from the good-luck-down-there dept.

aesoteric writes "As parts of the Australian state of Queensland either experience or prepare for the worst floods to ravage the state in over 100 years, Australia's techies have taken it upon themselves to keep communications services on as the crisis unfolds. One man is mirroring flood information from a faltering Brisbane City Council website, and others have opened WiFi channels in their neighbourhood whilst mobile signal gets choked. But there is major damage to telco networks — at least one major fibre link has been severed by flood waters, telephone exchanges have been knocked offline and cell towers put on battery or generator back-up (or offline altogether). On a sombre note, the floods have claimed 10 lives, including children, and 78 people are still missing after facing a torrent of water up to 8 metres (26 feet) high."

Make-A-Wish Builds A Millennium Falcon Fort For Boy 94

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday June 23, 2010 @02:06PM from the it's-fast-enough-for-you-old-man dept.

Thanks to the Make-A-Wish Foundation and a production crew from Little Mountain Productions, a 9-year-old is getting the best fort ever. The crew is making him a Star Wars-themed fort with a gigantic Millennium Falcon with solar-powered LED interior and exterior lighting to sit on top. No word on how fast it can make the Kessel run, but lets hope the kid gets a long trip.

Comment Most Data Isn't Worth Encrypting (Score 1) 660

by InitZero on Monday January 18, 2010 @12:44PM (#30809178) Attached to: What's Holding Back Encryption?

Most data traveling in the clear has little value. What value it has may be momentary. A week from now, it is worthless.

Heck, most encrypted data has little value. The fact of the matter is most data is worthless junk.

I was the backup administrator for a Fortune 500 company's branch office of 1,500 users. I have a pretty good idea of what data existed because I was responsible for keeping it safe. Of the terabytes upon terabytes of data sitting in the archive, I could have put the worth-encrypting sensitive company information on a USB thumb-drive. There was really that little of it floating around.

So, the reason most data isn't encrypted is that there really is no reason for its encryption.

Cheers,
Matt

Wii Hardware Upgrade Won't Happen Soon 325

Posted by Soulskill on Friday January 15, 2010 @03:52AM from the can't-show-ugly-mario-in-hd dept.

As high-definition graphics become more and more entrenched in this generation of game consoles, Nintendo has had to deal with constant speculation about a new version of the Wii that would increase its capabilities. Today, Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime bluntly denied that a hardware revision was imminent, saying, "We are confident the Wii home entertainment console has a very long life in front of it." He added, "In terms of what the future holds, we've gone on record to say that the next step for Nintendo in home consoles will not be to simply make it HD, but to add more and more capability, and we'll do that when we've totally tapped out all of the experiences for the existing Wii. And we're nowhere near doing that yet."

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