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Submission + - Pirate Bay servers at Museum in Sweden (tekniskamuseet.se)

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Perty
Perty writes: "The National Museum of Science and Technology in Stockholm/Sweden have bought one of the seized servers from The Pirate Bay raid in 2006 and is now on display.

A Google translation of the pressrelease today:

Technical Museum exhibits a data server from The Pirate Bay.The server started in 2004 and had the task of connecting different computers on the Internet in conjunction with file sharing. In May 2006 seized the server of the county crime in Stockholm. In January 2008 the server returned to The Pirate Bay, and in February 2009 was acquired by the Technical Museum.

- "This technical gadget must go to a museum! It has great symbolic value because it demonstrated a major problem or a great opportunity" says Nils Olander, quartermaster of the Technical Museum.

The server can from today be seen in Sweden's Hall at the Technical Museum.

Technical Museum collects objects that reflect the technology of human life The museum's task is to study technical change, as well as the visibility of these and not to avoid controversial phenomena.

Swedish pressrelease:
http://www.tekniskamuseet.se/templates/PressPage.aspx?id=24660

Google translation of pressrelease:
http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tekniskamuseet.se%2Ftemplates%2FPressPage.aspx%3Fid%3D24660&sl=sv&tl=en

Pictures of the server:
http://www.tekniskamuseet.se/templates/PressImageListingPage.aspx?id=24661"

Comment Wait, what? (Score 1) 1

by Scott Scott (#27588415) Attached to: 23 Security Fixes Just Released: Experts Astounded

Most security experts are startled at the number of threats this patch addresses.

Ur, no. One person representing a company that sells security solutions said he was amazed. One does not mean most.

What will amaze me is if this patch works properly without breaking anything. What will really amaze me is if Microsoft continues to deal with actual security threats.
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Submission + - 23 Security Fixes Just Released: Experts Astounded 1

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nandemoari
nandemoari writes: "Microsoft's Patch Tuesday came and went yesterday, bringing 23 fixes for a number of issues with its popular Office programs Excel and Word. At least several of these have been marked critical and most users should certainly consider the download. Most security experts are startled at the number of threats this patch addresses. "We were astonished to see how many zero-days are in [this past Tuesday's] release," said Wolfgang Kandek, Qualys' CTO. "For the IT guys, that means their window has just shrunk to zero to get these things fixed.""

Comment Re:And he had to fight for it? (Score 1) 7

by Scott Scott (#27583449) Attached to: Atheist Wins Right To Have Baptism Removed
Just one more thing wrong in the church annals. It's too bad that the church records are so heavily relied upon for genealogy, statistical research, and for certain clergy members to decide which politician needs to be chided publicly for not doing everything in accordance with what they want. Since when is removing a baptism record any different from an annulment, anyway?
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Submission + - YouTube Halts Uploads & Comments in Korea (appscout.com)

Submitted by adeelarshad82
adeelarshad82 writes: YouTube users in Korea are no longer able to upload new videos or comment on existing ones. The changes come in response to a the country's recent Cyber Defamation Law. Enacting on April 1st, the law requires users of all sites with more than 100,000 uniques a day to provide real names and national ID numbers, in order to curb anonymous comments.
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Submission + - Goatse Mail To Spammer Ends In Police Citation 2

Submitted by Dave
Dave writes: Locally, we have a happy hour event for Information Technology professionals to meet up and have a few drinks. Each month, it is hosted at a different location, and each month a different business sponsors the beer. As part of this event, there is an e-mail sign up for the actual happy hour mailing list to receive information about where the next event takes place and who is sponsoring it. The business where the event took place happened to take their own copy of this list and used it to start e-mailing me about their non-related promotions (Super Bowl, Mardi Gras, etc).

I replied nicely the first time with a title of 'UNSUBSCRIBE', the full original message (including the header showing which e-mail address the message was sent to), and quotes from the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 which says that there must be a clear unsubscribe mechanism (which there was not), and that requests must be honored within 10 days. This past week, I received more promotional materials and replied with an attached image of goatse.

I was contacted today by an officer in reference to "Unlawful Use Of Computerized Communication Systems". I was told that this could be prosecuted under state criminal law but that "since I had cooperated and returned the officer's phone call", I will instead be issued a municipal citation (locally adopted state law, references the same exact legal code 947.0125) for $300.

I fully plan on going to my court date to contest the citation on principle, but I thought maybe some other slashdotters might have had similar experiences or may be able to provide me with some basis on which to fight this.

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