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Journal Journal: China attacks via Microsoft source

Journal by bozojoe

Revealed by The Guardian, the latest cable leak from WikiLeaks provides evidence to suggest the Chinese government is working with IT security companies, licensed to access Microsoft source code, to bolster offensive and defensive computer network operations capabilities.

Read more: http://www.winrumors.com/leaked-u-s-embassy-cables-suggest-china-uses-access-to-microsoft-source-code-for-cyber-attacks/#ixzz17RkpyUpO
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Submission + - e-readers get flexible screens (arnnet.com.au)

Submitted by nadiskafadi
nadiskafadi writes: Taiwanese researchers have shown off several flexible display technologies in an endeavour to promote e-readers and e-paper. One of the newest technologies from Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) was a flexible 4.1-inch color OLED (organic light emitting diode) display, which it claims is for the next era of portable devices.
Science

"Overwhelming" Evidence For Magnetic Monopoles 256

Posted by kdawson from the go-north-young-man-and-keep-on-going dept.
Thorfinn.au sends along big physics news: magnetic monopoles have been detected at low temperatures in "Dirac strings" within a single crystal of Dysprosium Titanate. Two papers are being published today in the journal Science and two more on arXiv.org, as yet unpublished, provide further evidence. "Theoretical work had shown that monopoles probably exist, and they have been measured indirectly. But the Science papers are the first direct experiments to record the monopole's effects on the spin-ice material. The papers use neutrons to detect atoms in the crystal aligned into long daisy chains. These daisy chains tie each north and south monopole together. Known as 'Dirac strings,' the chains, as well as the existence of monopoles, were predicted in the 1930s by the British theoretical physicist Paul Dirac. Heat measurements in one paper also support the monopole argument. The two, as yet unpublished, papers on arXiv add to the evidence. The first provides additional observations, and the second uses a new technique to determine the magnetic charge of each monopole to be 4.6x10-13 joules per tesla metre. All together, the evidence for magnetic monopoles 'is now overwhelming,' says Steve Bramwell, a materials scientist at University College London and author on one of the Science papers and one of the arXiv papers."
Censorship

Iran Moves To End "Facebook Revolution" 838

Posted by kdawson from the stole-it-fair-and-square dept.
We've had a few readers send in updates on the chaotic post-election situation in Iran. Twitter is providing better coverage than CNN at the moment. There are both tech and humanitarian angles to the story, as the two samples below illustrate. First, Hugh Pickens writes with a report from The Times (UK) that "the Iranian government is mounting a campaign to disrupt independent media organizations and Web sites that air doubts about the validity of the re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as the nation's president. Reports from Tehran say that social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter were taken down after Mr Ahmadinejad claimed victory. SMS text messaging, a preferred medium of communication for young Iranians, has also been disabled. 'The blocking of access to foreign news media has been stepped up, according to Reporters Without Borders. 'The Internet is now very slow, like the mobile phone network. YouTube and Facebook are hard to access and pro-reform sites... are completely inaccessible.'" And reader momen abdullah sends in one of the more disturbing Ask Slashdots you are likely to see. "People, we need your urgent help in Iran. We are under attack by the government. They stole the election. And now are arresting everybody. They also filtered every sensitive Web page. But our problem is that they also block the SMS network and are scrambling satellite TVs. Please, can you help us to set up some sort of network using our home wireless access points? Can anybody show us a link on how to install small TV/radio stations? Any suggestion for setting up a network? Please tell us what to do or we are going to die in the a nuclear war between Iran and US." Update: 06/14 18:32 GMT by KD : Jim Cowie contributes a blog post from Renesys taking a closer look at the state of Iranian Internet transit, as seen in the aggregated global routing tables, and concluding that the story may not be as clear-cut as has been reported.

Comment Re:HIPAA (Score 1) 367

by bozojoe (#27746957) Attached to: Why Digital Medical Records Are No Panacea

I have yet to see a major litigation case involving HIPAA. Working in the healthcare software industry I know we are all waiting for the hammer to come down on someone, anyone so that we can observe the holes in the systems. However, this lack of trial history (IMHO) is actually making it more difficult to build good system. Why? over-architecture. analysis paralysis. Too many designers designing the be all end all of systems, rather a nicely tailored system to fit the current needs of a healthcare provider.

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