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Submission + - Puzzling Wikipedia edits on wrestler's murder (wikinews.org)

Submitted by glesga_kiss
glesga_kiss writes: An interesting article on wikinews points to edits of WWE Wrestler Chris Benoit's page on wikipedia suggesting foreknowledge of the murder. Edits from an IP in Connecticut, later followed by one from a wifi provider in Australia state that he cancelled an engagement due to the death of his wife. These were posted 13 hours prior to the polices discovery of the bodies after concerned family members asked the police to check up on him after erratic behaviour. A member of the Wikimedia Foundation has suggested that the IP address quite likely belongs to the WWE Headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut.
The Media

Submission + - Benoit Murder on Wikipedia Before Publicly Known?

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An anonymous reader writes: Fox News is reporting that the Wikipedia page for Chris Benoit was updated with information on his wife's death at least 13 hours before police found her body. According to Fox News, the IP where the edit came from is located in Stamford, CT, home of World Wrestling Entertainment.
Movies

Submission + - JJ Abrams' Star Trek Movie Footage Leaked!

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An anonymous reader writes: Ain't It Cool News just discovered some footage of JJ Abrams' new Star Trek movie (scroll past the Tholian Web footage) that was leaked onto YouTube. The footage shows Abrams is doing a very retro Star Trek with a cast of unknowns rather than the rumored big name stars. The most intriguing aspect of the videos, though, is the fact he's shooting with some sort of galactic basic language rather than English! I can only assume this was inspired by his friend Mel Gibson's use of native languages in his recent films.
The Internet

Submission + - GoDaddy responding to angry customers

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macboygrey
macboygrey writes: "Much to my surprise, I just received a phone call from "the office of the president" of GoDaddy. They were following up on an e-mail complaint I made regarding the recent take down of Seclists.org. The woman explained that they had to do this sort of thing in the case of security issues or child pornography. I was not reassured that I wouldn't be screwed if a user posted something on one of my sites that provoked the ire of a large corporation, even though she explained that the site owner had been notified and given plenty of time to respond. Has anyone else heard from GoDaddy? Did a handful of complaints via e-mail really make them that nervous?"
Security

Submission + - Virus from the FEDS...

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CheezWiz
CheezWiz writes: "We just started seeing Downloader.Trojan infections from the Federal Web Site: http://www.acf.hhs.gov/ . We have reproduced the results on three machines plus the original that alerted us to this. Upon visiting this site, the file ad1[1].htm appears in the Internet cache. It is identified by TrendMicro as js_agent.ggz — "This JavaScript may arrive on a system as part of another malware's installation routine. It may also be downloaded unknowingly by a user when visiting malicious Web sites. It is a component of an HTML downloader, which uses its functions for malicious purposes. Note that this JavaScript needs the HTML component in order to properly execute its routines. This malicious JavaScript is capable of opening Internet Explorer to download a possibly malicious file from a predefined URL. The said URL is specified in its HTML component file. " Symantec identifies it as Downloader.trojan... Anyone wish to help confirm this?"
Portables (Apple)

Submission + - MacBook Snaps Secret Photos Inside Apple Repair

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An anonymous reader writes: What happens when a user sends his MacBook in for repair with an Automater script to take a picture everytime the lid is opened? He gets photos posted to Flickr of the repair facility and some of the technicians. It seem it wasn't even intentional, as the user wrote the script and forgot about it before he sent it in for repairs. He only remembered when the photos started appearing in his Flickr account automatically.
Hardware Hacking

Submission + - Trusted Computing for Mac OS X

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Apple seems to have the ability to cause a big buzz about things, like EFI and TPM. Since Apple announced intel macs, theres been talk of their evil DRM and every so often hackers supposedly crack Apple's TPM keys. Still nobody has explained how Apple's TPM chips work in OS X. In a fascinating article Trusted Computing for Mac OS X Amit Singh finally dispells the myth about Apple's TCPA/TPM based DRM. Turns out theres no such DRM and Apple simply doesn't do anything with these chips. Singh has also released a GPL-ed open source TPM driver for Mac OS X, complete with an OS X port of the TrouSerS open source trusted computing software stack and provides a detailed guide for how you go about initializing your Intel Mac's TPM for your own use and how you perform your own cryptographic operations, data signing etc. And looks like the new MacPro and Rev2 MacBooks don't even have any TPM's.

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