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Submission + - Judge tells Apple to help FBI access San Bernardino shooters' iPhone (engadget.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: After a couple shot 14 people in San Bernardino, CA before being killed themselves on December 2nd, the authorities recovered a locked iPhone. Since then, the FBI has complained it is unable to break the device's encryption, in a case that it has implied supports its desire for tech companies to make sure it can always have a way in. Today the Associated Press reports that a US magistrate judge has directed Apple to help the FBI find a way in. There's no word on exactly which model of iPhone was recovered, but Apple has said that at least as of iOS 8 it does not have a way to bypass the passcode on a locked phone.

Comment Anti-Ad Block (Score 1) 528

by Errorcod3 (#50285583) Attached to: Study: Ad Blocker Use Jumps 41 Percent
Surprised it has not taken companies longer to deny content to the user if ad-block is detected.
I have seen several sites that have a paragraph where the ads have been blocked stating that they won't get money if you block their ads.
It is awesome to see the awareness and number of users utilizing ad blockers, however there will be a point when the sites will have to figure it out to force to you see advertisements.

*On another note - Black Mirror had a great episode on advertisements and making people pay to not watch them.

Submission + - How Boing Boing Handled an FBI Subpoena Over Its Tor Exit Node (boingboing.net)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Cory Doctorow has posted an account of what happened when tech culture blog Boing Boing got a federal subpoena over the Tor exit node the site had been running for years. They received the subpoena in June, and the FBI demanded all logs relating to the exit node: specifically, "subscriber records" and "user information" for everybody associated with the exit node's IP address. They were also asked to testify before a federal grand jury. While they were nervous at first, the story has a happy ending. Their lawyer sent a note back to the FBI agent in charge, explaining that the IP address in question was an exit node. The agent actually looked into Tor, realized no logs were available, and cancelled the request. Doctorow considers this encouraging for anyone who's thinking about opening a new exit node" "I'm not saying that everyone who gets a federal subpoena for running a Tor exit node will have this outcome, but the only Tor legal stories that rise to the public's attention are the horrific ones. Here's a counterexample: Fed asks us for our records, we say we don't have any, fed goes away."

Comment Re:Absolutely (Score 1) 80

by Errorcod3 (#50068259) Attached to: Facebook's New Data Center To Be Powered Entirely By Renewables

The power of bullshit never ceases to amaze!

At least they are not taking that phrase literally! A benefit of converting cow manure into renewable energy prevents harmful methane from reaching the atmosphere.

However it does seem to be a big advertisement campaign, which company can be 'green' and still make money off that process. The big companies won't truly make an effort to be environmentally conscious it would cost them too much.

Submission + - How the next US nuclear accident will happen (thebulletin.org)

Submitted by Lasrick
Lasrick writes: Anthropologist Hugh Gusterson analyzes safety at US nuclear facilities and finds a disaster waiting to happen due to an over-reliance on automated security technology and private contractors cutting corners to increase profits. Gusterson follows on the work of Eric Schlosser, Frank Munger, and Dan Zak in warning us of the serious problems at US nuclear facilities, both in the energy industry and in the nuclear security complex.

Submission + - Privately Owned Armored Trucks Raise Eyebrows After Dallas Attack

Submitted by HughPickens.com
HughPickens.com writes: Manny Fernandez writes in the NYT that the scores of military and police-style vans, trucks and cars offered for sale on Craigslist and eBay have raised concerns for some law enforcement officials particularly after the Dallas attack on a police headquarters but officials say the vehicles appear to be legal for the most part, so there is little they can do. Jeff Funicello, for example, is selling his black 1975 GMC armored truck on Craigslist. The body is armored, and the windows are bulletproof. It has sliding portholes to point rifles from and a sprinkler system inside. Long ago, it transported money, and it was once the target of a shootout in the 1980s. Of course, people have been driving reinforced cars long before the Dallas attack on a police headquarters. But the celebrities and executives who install bulletproof windows and other types of armor on their vehicles often do not want it noticed. Celebrity clients generally demand that the exteriors of their luxury armored vehicles look normal so they blend in. However those who buy and sell armored vans want people to look. And the popularity of apocalyptic movies and television shows has put a new twist and added a macabre cachet to such vehicles “This is America,” says Funicello. “I should be able to have a howitzer or a bazooka if I want one. If I wanted to buy a fire truck, I could.”

Submission + - Kaspersky Lab Reveals Cyberattack On Its Corporate Network

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: In early spring 2015, Kaspersky Lab detected a cyber-intrusion affecting several of its internal systems. Following this finding the company launched an intensive investigation, which led to the discovery of a new malware platform from one of the most skilled threat actors in the APT world: Duqu. The attack exploited zero-day vulnerabilities and after elevating privileges to domain administrator, the malware was spread in the network through MSI files. The attack didn’t leave behind any disk files or change system settings, making detection difficult. Upon discovery, Kaspersky Lab performed an initial security audit and analysis of the attack. The audit included source code verification and checking of the corporate infrastructure. Besides intellectual property theft, no additional indicators of malicious activity were detected.

Submission + - Congress Didn't Notice the FBI Creating a 'Small Air Force' for Surveillance (theatlantic.com)

Submitted by Errorcod3
Errorcod3 writes: Last week, Americans learned that even as the NSA collected information on their telephone and Internet behavior, the FBI was using fictitious companies to secretly operate what the AP called “a small air force with scores of low-flying planes across the country carrying video and, at times, cell phone surveillance technology.”

The news organization reported that surveillance flights may be more than a decade old, and identified “more than 100 flights since late April orbiting both major cities and rural areas.”

The merits of this program will now be debated.

What’s already clear, however, is the anti-democratic nature of keeping it hidden all these years. The U.S. is supposed to be governed by the people. Whether Americans want a federal law-enforcement agency using planes to conduct surveillance on vast swaths of the country is a question properly aired and debated.

It is for Americans to choose.

Instead, an executive branch that has grown alarmingly powerful since the September 11 terrorist attacks, or perhaps even before, imposed its preferred policy in secret. The vast majority of Americans were completely unaware of its choice.

Submission + - Top publishers to post news stories directly to Facebook timelines (thestack.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Facebook has today announced that it is launching a news feature called Instant Articles, which posts news items directly to a user’s timeline. Instant Articles differs from the current news feature in that users will no longer have to click through a headline link to access the publishers’ stories. Now articles will appear within a timeline feed, with the papers still collecting from ad space in the featured articles or through Facebook’s own ad service. The feature will launch shortly on Facebook for iPhone, before appearing across other apps and online. The news service is expected to roll out articles from the BBC, BuzzFeed, NBC, The New York Times and National Geographic among other leading publishers. Although Facebook has not given much detail regarding the new scheme, it is thought that they news sources will be paid through a revenue sharing scheme in relation to how popular their pieces are. Currently news items featured on Facebook take an average of eight seconds to load on a new site and are the “slowest single content type on Facebook.” Instant Articles hopes to load ten times faster with stories pre-loading while users scroll through their newsfeeds.

Submission + - Killing Freemium Services will Increase Music Piracy, Not Sales or Signups (medium.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Killing freemium won’t make people magically pay $9.99 a month; it’ll make them seek out free music elsewhere. By blocking channels like YouTube and Soundcloud, the labels are sending a message that only music they approve of and want to monetize can be heard, and the door slams shut for many outsider artists. The last thing listeners want is a protectionist culture around the music they consume—every artist deserves a fair shot at being heard.

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