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Submission + - UK Police Threaten Teenage Photojournalist (wordpress.com)

Submitted by IonOtter
IonOtter writes: In what seems to be a common occurrence, and now a costly one, Metropolitan Police in the UK still don't seem to be getting the message that assaulting photographers is a bad idea. UK press photographer Jules Matteson details the event in his blog, titled The Romford Incident. The incident has already been picked up by The Register, The Independent and the British Journal of Photography, which contains an official statement from the Metropolitan Police.

Submission + - Hack AT&T Voicemail With Android

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: It is shockingly easy to gain access to any AT&T customers voicemail using caller ID spoofing techniques. What's worse is that AT&T knows about it: http://www.wireless.att.com/learn/popups/voicemail-security.jsp

On your Android phone, download one of the two caller ID spoofing programs.
Input the number of your target as the destination number and then enter your targets phone number again as the spoofed caller ID.
Then connect your call.

If at any point your target allows your inbound call to touch their voicemail, you will be dropped into a random menu of their voicemail and eventually can drill up or down to get what you want. You can change greetings, erase messages, send voicemails out of the target account and much more.

How many politicians worried about Google WiFi Sniffing will want to know more about this?

Submission + - An Idea for opensource

Submitted by novar21
novar21 writes: Just a marketing idea to get open source software accepted: http://fossforce.com/2010/06/gpl-the-google-public-license/
Kid of makes sense... and seems reasonable. Just looking for other opinions, to predict the future is foolish, but could google really pull this off? Not sure GNU would mind the extra advertising, even if Google would slightly mis-represent the acronym. Could this be a free marketing opportunity?
Government

Submission + - Sen. Bond disses Internet "kill switch" bill (thehill.com)

Submitted by GovTechGuy
GovTechGuy writes: Sen. Kit Bond has introduced his own cybersecurity legislation with Sen. Orrin Hatch and he had some harsh words for a competing bill sponsored by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security. Bond said that bill, which has been criticized for allegedly giving the president a "kill switch" over the Internet, burdens the private sector with mandates and puts too much on the plate of the already overburdened Department of Homeland Security. His bill would create a new position in the Pentagon that reports directly to the President in charge of coordinating all civilian cybersecurity. Any private sector involvement would be voluntary and free from legal challenge, rather than mandated.

Submission + - FBI failed to break the encryption of hard drives (globo.com)

Submitted by benoliver
benoliver writes: Not even FBI was able to decrypt files of Daniel Dantas (Brazilian banker accused of "financial crimes" by the Brazilian justice). Hard drives were seized by the feds during Operation Satyagraha, in 2008. Information is protected by sophisticated encryption system. The hard drives seized by federal police at the apartment of banker Daniel Dantas, in Rio de Janeiro, during Operation Satyagraha. The operation began in July 2008. According to a report published on Friday (25) by the newspaper Folha de S. Paulo, after a year of unsuccessful attempts, the U.S. federal police returned the equipment to Brazil in April. According to the report, the fed only requested help from USA in early 2009, after experts from the National Institute of Criminology (INC) failed to decode the passwords on the hard drives. The government has no legal instrument to compel the manufacturer of the American encryption system or Dantas to give the access codes.

Submission + - MEP wants to eliminate anonymity on the internet (google.com)

Submitted by m94mni
m94mni writes: The European Parliament wants to monitor your internet searches for child porn offenders, as previously reported (http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/06/02/2317241/EU-To-Monitor-All-Internet-Searches). The declaration was adopted yesterday, and in an interview with the Swedish news outlet Europaportalen.se the Italian MEP Tiziano Motti behind declaration shares his views on internet and anonymity. In essence, Motti wants to completely eliminate anonymity on the internet. "Each upload of text, images or video clips must be tracable by the authorities", says Motti. This is in line with the secretive UN intitiative Q6/17, revealed two years ago (http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10040152-38.html). Is the decisive fight for anonymity on the internet coming closer?
Movies

Submission + - Movie studio finally sees the light on rentals (techcrunch.com)

Submitted by Griller_GT
Griller_GT writes: After months of conducting studies about the effects of delays on sales of DVDs, "Paramount Pictures has agreed to provide its movies to Redbox on the same day they go on sale." noting that "Those people who want to rent are going to figure out ways to rent," he said, "and us restricting them from renting isn't going to turn it into a purchase." Gee, who would have though of that? :)

Comment Your doing it wrong - for the 10th time! (Score 0, Flamebait) 172

by richrumble (#31547462) Attached to: ISC Releases the First Look At BIND 10
How do you sleep knowing DJB is out there and you can't compare? How can this be your 10th version with no hope of being better at writing DNS code. Swallow your pride, and start with a known good code base, you know like DJB, then cock it up... you are bind after all... that's what you guys do, and that you ARE good at. Every week, every month for years, decades, it's another bind security alert. Bind is the only code that I know of that is the exception to the saying "you can't make a silk purse out of a sows ear"... you can if there is no ear left, is there any original code in b9? Back to the drawing board wasn't far enough... jesus christ. Are interns the only ones allowed to code? Are you getting M$ rejects? I don't understand, do the opposite of what you think you should do, and maybe you have some decent code there, ask people on the street if this this and this are a good idea... ask your grand parents, filp coins... something other than what you do day in and day out fuck! -rich

Comment Cloud Immunity - ClamAV (Score 1) 896

by richrumble (#31527182) Attached to: What Free Antivirus Do You Install On Windows?
ClamAV is using Amazons EC2 Cloud. Real-time (upon execution) scanning, scanning on install, and scanning on service startup, as well as removal/quarantine. You do have to be connected however for the hash and heuristics checks to work. But best practices are much better than any AV any day. Don't use IE, don't run as admin, it is that simple: http://richrumble.blogspot.com/2006/08/anti-admin-vs-anti-virus.html -rich
Handhelds

TI-Nspire Hack Enables User Programming 88

Posted by Soulskill from the done-and-done dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Texas Instruments' most recent, ARM-based series of graphing calculators, the TI-Nspire line, has long resisted users' efforts to run their own software. (Unlike other TI calculator models, which can be programmed either in BASIC, C, or assembly language, the Nspire only supports an extremely limited form of BASIC.) A bug in the Nspire's OS was recently discovered, however, which can be exploited to execute arbitrary machine code. Now the first version of a tool called Ndless has been released, enabling users, for the first time, to write and run their own C and assembly programs on the device. This opens up exciting new possibilities for these devices, which are extremely powerful compared to TI's other calculator offerings, but (thanks to the built-in software's limitations) have hitherto been largely ignored by the calculator programming community."
Businesses

Jimmy Wales' Theory of Failure 164

Posted by Soulskill from the citation-needed dept.
Hugh Pickens writes "The Tampa Tribune reports that Jimmy Wales recently spoke at the TEDx conference in Tampa about the three big failures he had before he started Wikipedia, and what he learned from them. In 1996 Wales started an Internet service to connect downtown lunchers with area restaurants. 'The result was failure,' says Wales. 'In 1996, restaurant owners looked at me like I was from Mars.' Next Wales started a search engine company called 3Apes. In three months, it was taken over by Chinese hackers and the project failed. Third was an online encyclopedia called Nupedia, a free encyclopedia created by paid experts. Wales spent $250,000 for writers to make 12 articles, and it failed. Finally, Wales had a 'really dumb idea,' a free encyclopedia written by anyone who wanted to contribute. That became Wikipedia, which is now one of the top 10 most-popular Web sites in the world. This leads to Wales' theories of failure: fail faster — if a project is doomed, shut it down quickly; don't tie your ego to any one project — if it stumbles, you'll be unable to move forward; real entrepreneurs fail; fail a lot but enjoy yourself along the way; if you handle these things well, 'you will succeed.'"

Submission + - Facebooks HipHop PHP initial release (google.com)

Submitted by richrumble
richrumble writes: After a slight delay in releasing because they needed to remove Facebook specific extentions, the source was made available this morning.

Today we've pushed an initial version of HipHop onto GitHub at http://github.com/facebook/hiphop-php. This source should build on CentOS 5.2 and Ubuntu 9.10. Any specific hard to find libraries are bundled where the license permits.
Remember that while we're running HipHop in production it might not yet be stable for you. You should be comfortable with this sort of software as it's the first public release.
Over the next week we'll work to remove the requirement of having a custom libcurl requirement and libevent if possible. Today's branch has a limited commit history, but we'll push out another branch next week with a restructured layout and it will become the branch to track moving forward.
Check out the wiki for documentation, starting with http://github.com/facebook/hiphop-php/wikis/building-and-installing and then http://github.com/facebook/hiphop-php/wikis/running-hiphop.

HipHop PHP was previously discussed here: http://slashdot.org/submission/1164350/Facebooks-HipHop-also-a-PHP-webserver
Google

Submission + - Google Donates $2 Million To Wikipedia (komonews.com)

Submitted by The Installer
The Installer writes: SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google Inc., the Internet's most profitable company, is giving $2 million to support Wikipedia, a volunteer-driven reference tool that has emerged as one of the Web's most-read sites.

The donation announced Wednesday matches the largest grant made so far to Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit group that oversees the 7-year-old Wikipedia. Ebay founder Pierre Omidyar also donated $2 million to Wikimedia six months ago through one of his investment arms.

The latest largesse has catapulted Wikimedia beyond its $10.6 million revenue target for its fiscal year ending in June. That goal had looked ambitious, given that it represented an increase of more than 20 percent from $8.7 million a year earlier.

But the worst recession since World War II evidently didn't dampen support for the Internet's most popular encyclopedia, which has more than 14 million entries written and edited by some 100,000 unpaid contributors in about 270 languages.

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