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Submission + - Unlisted Number Address "Exploit" Revealed (vortex.com)

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Lauren Weinstein
Lauren Weinstein writes: "Greetings. After due consideration, some expert advice, and since the firm involved obviously feels that they're not doing anything wrong (will everyone else agree?), I've decided to release the details of the unlisted number to address lookup "exploit" that I've previously outlined in my blog. Specifics are at: Details of Unlisted Number Address "Exploit" Revealed"
Sci-Fi

Submission + - Deckard is a Replicant

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MufasaZX
MufasaZX writes: "While endless debate over weather Rick Deckard in Blade Runner is himself a replicant may be entertaining, on today's Fresh Air on NPR a new interview with Ridley Scott was aired, and the second question out of Terry Gross's mouth was 'is Deckard a replicant?' which RS replied with an absolute affirmative. There, done, end of debate. The audio stream of the interview is already online here."
Power

Submission + - Silicon Valley Startup ships $1 / Watt solar panel (andrewrondeau.com)

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GWBasic
GWBasic writes: "At $1 per Watt, the iTunes of Solar Energy Has Arrived A Silicon Valley start-up called Nanosolar shipped its first solar panels — priced at $1 a watt. That's the price at which solar energy gets cheaper than coal. While other companies have been focusing their efforts on increasing the efficiency of solar panels, Nanosolar took a different approach. It focused on manufacturing."
PC Games (Games)

Submission + - Blizzard Taking It To Gold Sellers and Buyers

Submitted by Samalie
Samalie writes: It appears Blizzard may finally be taking a fatal shot at IGE, providers of WoW Gold & Powerleveling.

The State of Florida has issued a subponea demanding pretty much everything IGE has on their own operations, as well as account/player names for everyone they've ever sold gold or services to.

Looks like the lamighty banstick may be coming out at Blizzard....but estimates are that upwards of 25% of their monthly paying customers have at one time bought gold. Will Blizzard really chop out 1/4 of their subscriber base?

Read the subponea here, and the full article here.
Security

Submission + - Safe and "Promiscuous" Web Browing--Too Ex (csoonline.com) 1

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Sarah S
Sarah S writes: "The application security researcher Jeremiah Grossman has told CSO magazine about the extreme measure he takes to stay safe online, which involves using two separate browsers: "One, which he calls the 'promiscuous' browser, is the one he uses for ordinary browsing. A second browser is used only for security-critical tasks such as online banking. When Grossman wants to do online banking, he closes his promiscous browser, opens the more prudish one, and does only what he has to do before closing it and going back to his insecure browser.""
Operating Systems

Submission + - Since when is Dell Gutsy Gibbon not Ubuntu? (itwire.com) 1

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davidmwilliams
davidmwilliams writes: "The news that Dell has now released Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) on its boxes (and about time too!) has been tempered somewhat by a potential storm of controversy caused by a couple of software packages that come bundled with the Dell Linux PCs. The two bundled packages happen to be proprietary software. Is this going to be a problem?"
Media (Apple)

Submission + - The Effect of iPhone SDK on the iPhone (cooltechzone.com)

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Techie
Techie writes: "As Apple preps a SDK for iPhone, what are its ramifications? How is it going to impact the iPhone? CoolTechZone.com's latest story answers that question and much more. "This is great news for iPhone users and software developers, but I can't help but wonder how exciting this will be once it actually sees the light of day. I mean, what is Apple's concept of an open iPhone? As I write this, there are countless people that are doing amazing things through hacks on the iPhone, but I have a hard time believing that anything Apple produces will be as open and freeing as previous efforts by the community of unofficial iPhone hackers."
Google

Submission + - Google's Orkut fights off worm attack (news.com)

Submitted by DeeQ
DeeQ writes: A computer worm has been spreading on Google's big-in-Brazil Orkut social network, according to a report on the Sounds from the Dungeon blog. The relatively harmless worm appears to use JavaScript and Flash code to create new scrapbook entries on profiles with a New Year's message in Portuguese before propagating to the victim's friends.It may have infected as many as 400,000 users, according to a post on a blog called "c0d3w12."

"It appears Google has responded quickly," writes a blogger on ValleyWag. "Too bad. If Google had let the worm rampage, maybe some American users might actually hear about Orkut for the first time."
Media

Submission + - Linux changing lives in San Francisco's skid row (sfsu.edu)

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christian.einfeldt
christian.einfeldt writes: "In San Francisco's skid row, some nonprofits earlier this month sponsored the first "Tenderloin Tech Day." The half-day workshop was open to anyone in the low-income neighborhood with a tech problem. CNET News.com's reporter, Kara Tsuboi, stopped by and chatted with people about their first Linux experiences in this entertaining and heart-warming video. (video warning). Event organizer say that they are planning more events to follow up on this successful workshop."
Privacy

Submission + - Judge:Man can't be forced to divulge passphrase (news.com) 2

Submitted by
mytrip
mytrip writes: "A federal judge in Vermont has ruled that prosecutors can't force a criminal defendant accused of having illegal images on his hard drive to divulge his PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) passphrase.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Jerome Niedermeier ruled that a man charged with transporting child pornography on his laptop across the Canadian border has a Fifth Amendment right not to turn over the passphrase to prosecutors. The Fifth Amendment protects the right to avoid self-incrimination.

Niedermeier tossed out a grand jury's subpoena that directed Sebastien Boucher to provide "any passwords" used with his Alienware laptop. "Compelling Boucher to enter the password forces him to produce evidence that could be used to incriminate him," the judge wrote in an order dated November 29 that went unnoticed until this week. "Producing the password, as if it were a key to a locked container, forces Boucher to produce the contents of his laptop."

Especially if this ruling is appealed, U.S. v. Boucher could become a landmark case. The question of whether a criminal defendant can be legally compelled to cough up his encryption passphrase remains an unsettled one, with law review articles for the last decade arguing the merits of either approach. (A U.S. Justice Department attorney wrote an article in 1996, for instance, titled "Compelled Production of Plaintext and Keys.")"
Mozilla

Submission + - Student given detention for using Firefox 3

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Several sites are reporting that a student has been given detention for using "Firefox.exe" to do his classwork. No, really. The student was in class, working on an assignment that necessitated using a browser. The teacher instructed him to stop using Firefox and to do his classwork, to which the student responded that he was doing his classwork using a "better" browser (it is unclear whether the computer was the student's own computer or not). The clueless teacher (who called the rogue program "Firefox.exe") ordered him to detention.

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