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Submission + - Saddam Hussein executed

Submitted by Ice Wewe on Saturday December 30, 2006 @09:44AM

Ice Wewe writes: The BBC is reporting that Iraq's former dictator Saddam Hussein was hung. Saddam was found guilty of the 1982 killings of 148 Shias.

Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has been executed by hanging at a secure facility in northern Baghdad for crimes against humanity. Iraqi TV said the execution took place just before 0600 local time (0300GMT). A representative of the prime minister and a Sunni Muslim cleric were present.

Read the whole story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6218485.stm

Submission + - U3 Software

Submitted by

Mad Jamison

on Saturday December 30, 2006 @09:12AM

Mad Jamison writes: "I'm interested in purchasing a USB Drive with Migo synchronization software. I've owned the Migo Smart Watch for over a year and it does a great job. Now I want to upgrade to a drive with more capacity (2-4 GB), and take advantage of the new U3 programs that are being packaged on many USB drives. But I know nothing about U3, what is available, or how good the U3 software is. I'm particularly interested in security. One of the U3 applications offers password management. Does this make the USB device more or less secure. Another offers encryption. Is it any good? Where can I get up to speed on U3? Thanks."

Submission + - U.S. Censoring ThePirateBay?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 29, 2006 @02:25PM

An anonymous reader writes: I just tried to go to the bittorrent site, "thepiratebay.org", and timed out, repeatedly.

Now this isn't unusual in itself, but since I reside in the U.S., I got to wondering.

Proxied through "TOR" and thepiratebay came up just fine. No proxy, still no connect.

tcptraceroute to thepiratebay times out.
tcptraceroute to the node immediately before thepiratebay works fine.

All symptoms are that the U.S. is censoring access. Is anyone else experiencing this?

Anonymized for obvious reasons!

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