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Censoring a Number 1046

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday May 01, 2007 @03:44PM from the you-can't-copyright-that dept.

Rudd-O writes "Months after successful discovery of the HD-DVD processing key, an unprecedented campaign of censorship, in the form of DMCA takedown notices by the MPAA, has hit the Net. For example Spooky Action at a Distance was killed. More disturbingly, my story got Dugg twice, with the second wave hitting 15,500 votes, and today I found out it had simply disappeared from Digg. How long until the long arm of the MPAA gets to my own site (run in Ecuador) and the rest of them holding the processing key? How long will we let rampant censorship go on, in the name of economic interest?" How long before the magic 16-hex-pairs number shows up in a comment here?

Russinovich Says, Expect Vista Malware 193

Posted by kdawson on Monday April 23, 2007 @08:16PM from the UAC-be-damned dept.

Hypertwist writes "Despite all the anti-malware roadblocks built into Windows Vista, Microsoft technical fellow Mark Russinovich is lowering the security expectations, warning that viruses, password-stealing Trojans, and rootkits will continue to thrive as malware authors adapt to the new operating system. Even in a standard user world, he stressed that malware can still read all the user's data; can still hide with user-mode rootkits; and can still control which applications (anti-virus scanners) the user can access. From the article: '"We'll see malware developing its own elevation techniques," Russinovich said. He demonstrated a social engineering attack scenario where a fake elevation prompt can be used to trick users into clicking "allow" to give elevated rights to a malicious file.'

Comment Re:We used PHP for our last product, but... (Score 1) 610

by VvScythevV on Friday October 21, 2005 @03:01PM (#13846693) Attached to: PHP Succeeding Where Java Has Failed

Naming conventions in PHP are definitely ackward, I wrote a library of aliases so all the functions I use have one naming convention and I don't have to remember if XYZ function uses an underscore or not. As for errors/warning, you can use error_reporting(E_ALL); but most of the things it'll report on should be fairly obvious already and a lot of detailed and harder to find things will slip by.

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