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stevenjbaker writes:
Today, the UK Prime Minister's petitions site clocked up over 105,000 signatures against vehicle tracking for road pricing. It would be bad enough if they hadn't already looked at "Intelligent speed adaptation", similarly powered by sat nav...
UK "subjects" sign up here: http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/traveltax/
See how the petition dwarfs all others here: http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/list/open?sort=signers
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norm911 writes:
Think you write solid code? Secure code? You most likely don't. In the article entitled New Tricks for Old Dogs, an internationally recognized security expert performs acts of self-humiliation with a software security analyzer :)
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Englishuk writes:
Web users are being urged to upgrade their Adobe reader software as a security flaw is found in older versions of the program.
Millions of people use the reader software to view documents prepared in the popular PDF format.
Security researchers said malicious hackers exploiting the flaw could view victim's hard drives or use it to make phishing scams look more plausible.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6234181.stm
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john-da-luthrun writes:
A French court has ruled that Sony's CONNECT Store infringes French consumer law, reports the TechnoLlama IP blog. Under French law, it is illegal to tie the purchase of a service (such as downloading a music file) to the purchase of a another product, so Sony were held to be breaking the law by selling music files that required a Sony player in order to access them. The court also found that Sony had failed to inform customers that its ATRAC 3 files can only be played on Sony digital players. A similar case in France involving Apple's iTunes/iPod tie-in is ongoing.
