dev_eddie - Slashdot User

Comment kiosk manufacturers are the culprits (Score 5, Informative) 288

by dev_eddie on Tuesday July 06, 2010 @07:11AM (#32808638) Attached to: Photo Kiosks Infecting Customers' USB Devices

I did own an Agfa Photo Kiosk. It didn't have an AV by default and it ran "Windows XP embedded edition" that prevented me from installing an AV (installers didn't allow me to do an install.). I saved a raw image of the hard disk for safety and allowed it to infect customers. It was a security nightmare. Viruses had their way into the machine, but AV software didn't. Autorun was a requirement for the kiosk software to process photos and could not be disabled.

iPlayer Released for Mac, Linux; Adobe Announces AIR for Linux 231

Posted by timothy on Thursday December 18, 2008 @06:03PM from the rich-buttery-web-apps dept.

Zoxed writes "The BBC reports that their iPlayer has just been released for Mac and Linux (download page). It is based on Adobe Air, but unfortunately the service is only available to UK IP address, so I can not test it out from my adopted homeland of Germany. Perhaps a UK-based Slashdotter could review it?" In related news, an anonymous reader writes "Adobe has announced a Linux version of its AIR 1.5 runtime environment that is supposed to allow rich web apps developed on it to run on Fedora Core 8, Ubuntu 7.10 and openSuse 10.3 with no modification. The company released versions for Windows and Mac OS X back in November."

Indian GPS Cartographers Charged As Terrorists 269

Posted by timothy on Thursday December 18, 2008 @05:07PM from the well-lookie-here dept.

chrb writes "Following on from the discussion about Apple disabling GPS in Egyptian iPhones, we have a new case of the conflict between the traditional secrecy of government, and the widening availability of cheap, accurate GPS devices around the world. On 5th December, two software engineers employed by Biond Software in India were arrested for mapping highways using vehicle based GPS devices. Further evidence against the pair emerged when it was found that a laptop they had been using in the car contained some photos of the local airforce base. The company claims they had been commissioned by Nokia Navigator to create maps of local roads and terrain. Following an investigation by the Anti Terrorist Squad of Gujarat the cartographers have now been charged with violating the Official Secrets Act and will remain in custody."

Comment Re:All Fear, No Facts (Score 1) 122

by dev_eddie on Saturday April 19, 2008 @11:16AM (#23127648) Attached to: FBI and Next-Gen P2P Monitoring

I do. That's all you need to know. If someone tampers our favorite torrent client, I would post it in my blog and send it to slashdot, then you get a patched version and we are all happy again.

That is the point, it is too easy to point malware in Free Software, it is not worth to try.

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