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Submission + - IETF Fixes SSL Security Vulnerability (eweek.com)

Submitted by scurtis
scurtis writes: The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has finished work on a fix to a vulnerability in the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol. The vulnerability partially invalidates the SSL lock and allows attacks that compromise sites that use SSL for security – including banking sites, and back-office systems that use web services-based protocols. The issue was first uncovered in August by Steve Dispensa and Marsh Ray, who work for two-factor authentication provider PhoneFactor.
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Fermilab Not Dead Yet, Discovers Rare Single Top Quark 194

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the emphasis-on-the-operating dept.
Several sources are reporting that in spite of LHC hype, Fermilab's Tevatron has produced another feat for scientific discovery. Currently the world's most powerful operating particle accelerator, the Tevatron has allowed researchers to observe a rare single Top Quark. "Previously, top quarks had only been observed when produced by the strong nuclear force. That interaction leads to the production of pairs of top quarks. The production of single top quarks, which involves the weak nuclear force and is harder to identify experimentally, has now been observed, almost 14 years to the day of the top quark discovery in 1995."
Microsoft

The Real Reason For Microsoft's TomTom Lawsuit 408

Posted by CmdrTaco from the get-your-conspiracy-on dept.
Glyn Moody writes "We now know that Microsoft's lawsuit isn't just against TomTom, but against Linux too: but what exactly is Microsoft hoping to achieve? Samba's Jeremy Allison has a fascinating theory: 'What people are missing about this is the either/or choice that Microsoft is giving Tom Tom. It isn't a case of cross-license and everything is ok. If Tom Tom or any other company cross licenses patents then by section 7 of GPLv2 (for the Linux kernel) they lose the rights to redistribute the kernel *at all*. Make no mistake, this is intended to force Tom Tom to violate the GPL, or change to Microsoft embedded software.' Maybe embedded Linux is starting to get too popular."

Comment How is that evil in the long run? (Score 4, Insightful) 659

by wyoung76 (#26604665) Attached to: Bill Gates' Plan To Destroy Music, Note By Note
If we get access to install any new operating system that we desire, and to use the PS3 for whatever reason we want, then how can that be bad?

If Sony is circumventing the tariffs by being "forced" into making the PS3 more open (and I use that term guardedly), then we still benefit a LOT more than by owning an Xbox360.

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