Comment Re:Beurk (Score 1) 311
It's using the `Windows 2000` theme, so it's 9 years old.
How was Linux/Mac/OS-of-choice looking back in 2000?
Comment Re:A DRM ban clause should be added as a constitut (Score 1) 1127
Unless your firewall works at a lower level in the kernel than Microsoft's bypassing code, it won't get involved. I wouldn't put it past them to use rootkit technology for something like this...
Comment Re:Were they made by Sony? (Score 5, Insightful) 224
Technically, kernel level debuggers can be classified as rootkits, as they use rootkit techniques to gain the level of access they need to be able to work.
Comment Problem? (Score 4, Interesting) 198
Anyone want to try buying .php, or .exe, just to see what happens?
Study Says P2P Downloaders Buy More Music 158
An anonymous reader writes "Michael Geist posts to his site about a study commissioned by the Canadian government intended to look into the buying habits of music fans. What the study found is that 'there is a positive correlation between peer-to-peer downloading and CD purchasing.' The report is entitled The Impact of Music Downloads and P2P File-Sharing on the Purchase of Music: A Study For Industry Canada, and it was 'conducted collaboratively by two professors from the University of London, Industry Canada, and Decima Research, who surveyed over 2,000 Canadians on their music downloading and purchasing habits. The authors believe this is the first ever empirical study to employ representative microeconomic data.'"
Submission + - German police arrest admin of Tor anonymity server (cnet.com)
An anonymous reader writes: In a recent blog posting, a German operator of a Tor anonymous proxy server revealed that he was arrested by German police officers at the end of July. Showing up at his house at midnight on a Sunday night, police cuffed and arrested him in front of his wife and seized his equipment. In a display of both bitter irony and incompetence, the police did not take or shut-down the Tor server responsible for the traffic they were interested in, which was located in a data center, over 500km away. In the last year, Germany has passed a draconian new anti-security research law and raided seven different data centers to seize Tor servers. While back in 2003, A German court ordered the developers of a different anonymity network to build a back-door into their system. CNET's article has the full details.
