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Submission + - Favorite Fictional Company?

Submitted by m0rphin3 on Wednesday January 24, 2007 @09:32AM

m0rphin3 writes: -Cyberdyne Systems
-InGen
-Tyrell Corporation
-Maas Biotek
-Umbrella Corporation
-Weyland-Yutani
-CHOAM
-Omni Consumer Products
-Central Services
-BiffCo

A Competition To Replace SHA-1 159

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday January 24, 2007 @09:10AM from the securing-government-bits dept.

SHA who? writes "In light of recent attacks on SHA-1, NIST is preparing for a competition to augment and revise the current Secure Hash Standard. The public competition will be run much like the development process for the Advance Encryption Standard, and is expected to take 3 years. As a first step, NIST is publishing draft minimum acceptability requirements, submission requirements, and evaluation criteria for candidate algorithms, and requests public comment by April 27, 2007. NIST has ordered Federal agencies to stop using SHA-1 and instead to use the SHA-2 family of hash functions."

Submission + - Swedish bill to sniff internet traffic presented

Submitted by

swehack

on Wednesday January 24, 2007 @07:47AM

swehack writes: "The Swedish defense minister today presented a bill(Swedish) to let FRA(National Defence Radio Establishment) listen to all internet and radio traffic sent over Swedish borders. Internet service providers will be forced to allow access to their border points where FRA will be allowed to filter for certain search patterns. The search patterns the FRA will filter traffic for will be decided by the FRA. The swedish minister of defense, Mikael Odenberg, noted that the bill only applies to outsie threats, information transferred between two swedes will not be used."

Feed CIA Gets in Your Face(book) (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed on Wednesday January 24, 2007 @07:12AM

Want a job in intelligence, recruiting secret sources and working undercover in exotic overseas locations? Head over to the CIA's Facebook page. By Chaddus Bruce.

Feed Hillary: The Privacy Candidate? (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed on Wednesday January 24, 2007 @07:12AM

Internet privacy advocates hail presidential contender Hillary Clinton for proposing drastic reforms of U.S. privacy laws. But skeptics say she's biting off more than she can chew. By Sarah Lai Stirland.

Submission + - BBC To Host Multi-OS Debate

Submitted by Bananatree3 on Wednesday January 24, 2007 @05:51AM

Bananatree3 writes: BBC is currently seeking submissions from all you Microsoft Windows, Mac and Linux devotees "in 100 words or less, why you are such a supporter of your chosen operating system and what features you love about it". They will then select one user of each platform to go head to head in a debate that will be part of the BBC's Microsoft Vista launch coverage on January 30th.

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