Ceribia - Slashdot User

Submission + - Hushmail giving 'The Man' your private PGP keys 1

Submitted by

teknopurge

on Friday November 16, 2007 @01:26PM

teknopurge writes: "Apparently Hushmail has been providing information to law enforcement behind the backs of their clients. Billed as secure email because of their use of PGP, Hushmail has been turning over private keys of users to the authorities on request. Yet another reason to use private hosting."

Submission + - Debian refuses to push timezone update for NZ DST (debian.org)

Submitted by Jasper Bryant-Greene on Saturday September 29, 2007 @11:09PM

Jasper Bryant-Greene writes: Although a tzdata release which includes New Zealand's recent DST changes (2007f) has been out for some time, Debian are refusing to push the update from testing into the current stable distribution, codenamed Etch, on the basis that "it's not a security bug". This means that unless New Zealand sysadmins install the package manually, pull the package from testing, or alter the timezone to "GMT-13" manually, all systems running Debian Etch in New Zealand currently have the incorrect time, as DST went into effect this morning. As the last comment in the bug report says, "even Microsoft are not this silly".

Submission + - Connecticut Wants to Restrict Social Networking

Submitted by csefft on Friday March 09, 2007 @08:18PM

csefft writes: According to the Hartford Courant, Connecticut became the latest state to want to restrict the use of MySpace and other social networking sites. The proposed bill would require that all such sites verify the identity and age of users, as well as get parent's permission for those under 18. Sites that failed to comply would be subject to a $5,000 per day fine. Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said of the proposition, "If we can put a man on the moon, we can verify age on the Internet," but quickly followed with the acknowledgement that there is no foolproof method.

Obviously another state's citizens need to be taught the truth of: "Whenever a politician starts talking about 'the children,' keep one eye on your wallet and the other on your liberty." — Anonymous

Feed State Might Make Pluto a Planet (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed on Friday March 09, 2007 @06:12PM

New Mexico's legislature expands its jurisdiction, mulling whether to return the slighted celestial body to its planetary status every time it passes overhead. By Robert Lemos.

Comment Side Note: (Score 3, Insightful) 586

by Ceribia on Sunday October 29, 2006 @08:10PM (#16636708) Attached to: Tackling Global Warming Cheaper Than Ignoring It

Also of some note is the fact that we are all going to die. ...but yeah, 5 percent, lets do something about that...

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