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Submission + - Lone Iranian claims credit for Comodo hack (pcpro.co.uk)

nk497 writes: "A boastful Iranian hacker has claimed sole responsibility for the Comodo security certificate attack, saying it had nothing to to do with his Government. The 21-year-old claimed via a note on PasteBin "I'm not a group of hacker, I'm single hacker with experience of 1,000 hackers". While some researchers believed his claims, saying the media had accepted Comodo's claims the attack was from the Iranian government too easily, others said it was impossible to tell if the hacker was real, or a PR move by Iran."
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Submission + - Amendment Would Require University P2P Filtering (mistakengoal.com)

An anonymous reader writes: MistakenGoal, Inside Higher Ed and ArsTechnica are reporting on a new amendment to the the Higher Education Reauthorization Act, entitled "Campus-Based Digital Theft Protection". Introduced by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), it would require that that the Secretary of Education single out the 25 schools that have "received during the previous calendar year the highest number of written notices...alleging infringement of copyright," and require those schools to "Provide evidence to the Secretary [of Education] that the institution has developed a plan for implementing a technology-based deterrent to prevent the illegal downloading or peer-to-peer distribution of intellectual property." The bill will likely pass within the next week, without any mainstream media coverage, so if you want to call your Senators, you had better do it quickly!

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