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Comment The MPAA Lawyers have never played this nice.. (Score 5, Interesting) 650

Howard Gantman, a spokesman for the Motion Picture Association of America, said he did not believe its member studios were aware of Mr. Strachman’s operation. His sole comment dripped with the difficulty of going after a 92-year-old widower supporting the troops. “We are grateful that the entertainment we produce can bring some enjoyment to them while they are away from home,” Mr. Gantman said.
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Submission + - Backdoor in RuggedOS systems: Infrastructure, military systems vulnerable (arstechnica.com)

FhnuZoag writes: Via Ars Technica ( http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/04/backdoor-in-mission-critical-hardware-threatens-power-traffic-control-systems.ars ): A backdoor has been found in Canadian based RuggedCom's 'Rugged Operating System', providing easy access to anyone with the devices's MAC address — something often publically displayed. Rugged OS is being used in a wide range of applications, including traffic control, power generation, and even US Navy bases. The backdoor was first found over a year ago, and RuggedCom have so far refused to patch out the exploit. (Original disclosure: http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2012-April/086652.html )

Submission + - The expulsion of MAC Addresses 4

devilsdean writes: What happens when we run out of MAC Addresses? IP v4 provides a 32 bit address, ip v6 provides a 128 bit address, while MAC provides a 48 bit address. MAC addresses are broken up into 24 bits for the OUI and 24 bits for the host. so that provides 2^24th unique mac addresses. If every client on the Internet must have a unique MAC address, what replaces MAC like IPv6 will replace IPv4.

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