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Submission + - British PM seeks ban on encryption after terror attack (itwire.com)

Submitted by troublemaker_23 on Sunday June 04, 2017 @07:07PM

troublemaker_23 writes: British Prime Minister Theresa May has used Saturday's terrorist attack to again push for a ban on encryption. May said on Sunday that Britain must take a new approach to tackling terrorism, and that this included denying terrorists and their sympathisers access to digital tools that she claimed were being used for communication and planning attacks.

Submission + - ZFS Replication to the Cloud is Finally Here ... and it's Fast (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by kozubik on Monday December 21, 2015 @01:23PM

kozubik writes: Jim Salter at arstechnica provides a detailed, technical rundown of ZFS send and receive and compares it to traditional remote syncing and backup tools such as rsync. He writes: "In mid-August, the first commercially available ZFS cloud replication target became available at rsync.net. Who cares, right? As the service itself states, If you're not sure what this means, our product is Not For You. ... after 15 years of daily use, I knew exactly what rsync's weaknesses were, and I targeted them ruthlessly."

Submission + - Hackers have infiltrated our power grid's control networks (lasvegassun.com)

Submitted by davidwr on Monday December 21, 2015 @11:58AM

davidwr writes: A security researcher and the Associated Press are reporting that hackers have infiltrated many of our nation's power grid networks. Exfiltrated data included engineering plans and other non-public information that could aid an attacker later as well as account credentials. Multiple companies were affected but one of the more notable ones was the energy provider Calpine.

Submission + - Meet the Scientist Who Injected Himself with 3.5 Million-Year-Old Bacteria (vice.com)

Submitted by Press2ToContinue on Sunday December 20, 2015 @11:59PM

Press2ToContinue writes: Anatoli Brouchkov is a soft-spoken guy with silver hair, and when he lets out a reserved chuckle, his eyes light up like he was belly laughing. If you met him on the street, you’d never guess that he once injected himself with a 3.5 million-year-old strain of bacteria, just to see what would happen.

According to Brouchkov, Bacillus F has a mechanism that has enabled it to survive for so long beneath the ice, and that the same mechanism could be used to extend human life, too—perhaps, one day, forever. In tests, Brouchkov says the bacteria allowed female mice to reproduce at ages far older than typical mice. Fruit flies, he told the Siberian Times, also experienced a “positive impact” from exposure to the bacteria.

Comment Re:Ok, ok. (Score 1) 135

by digitalmischief on Monday July 11, 2011 @11:56AM (#36721304) Attached to: <em>News of the World</em> Investigation Expanded to 9/11 Victims

or they could have done it with CLI spoofing, as when you call up from your own phone by default the vm system will not require a pin, so if you use a CLI spoofing service you can get it with no pin. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caller_ID_spoofing

Submission + - LulzSec debunks UK Census hack (scmagazine.com.au)

Submitted by

mask.of.sanity

on Tuesday June 21, 2011 @10:21AM

mask.of.sanity writes: "Hacking group LulzSec has poured cloud water on claims that it had stolen UK Census data and was preparing to release the records.

"Just saw the pastebin of the UK census hack. That wasn't us — don't believe fake LulzSec releases unless we put out a tweet first," the group said from its official Twitter account."

Submission + - Mine BitCoin get busted for pot farming (computerworld.com)

Submitted by c0lo on Tuesday May 24, 2011 @12:55AM

c0lo writes: Among other risks caused by the low understanding of police and gub agencies on what BitCoin is, the high amount of electricity needed to create a single bitcoin bills can lead to marijuana busts.

The Canadian town of Mission, BC has a bylaw that allows the town's Public Safety Inspection Team to search people's homes for grow ops if they are using more than 93 kWh of electricity per day. There have allegedly been reports floating in IRC of two different cases of police showing up at a bitcoin miner's residence with a search warrant.

Ohio police and the DEA file at least 60 subpoenas each month for energy-use records of people suspected of running an indoor pot growing operation. DEA Agent Anthony Marotta said high electricity usage does not always mean the residence is an indoor pot farm and has surprised federal agents. "We thought it was a major grow operation ... but this guy had some kind of business involving computers. I don't know how many computer servers we found in his home."

America's Army Games Cost $33 Million Over 10 Years 192

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday December 10, 2009 @04:25AM from the your-tax-dollars-at-play dept.

Responding to a Freedom Of Information Act request, the US government has revealed the operating costs of the America's Army game series over the past decade. The total bill comes to $32.8 million, with yearly costs varying from $1.3 million to $5.6 million. "While operating America's Army 3 does involve ongoing expenses, paying the game's original development team isn't one of them. Days after the game launched in June, representatives with the Army confirmed that ties were severed with the Emeryville, California-based team behind the project, and future development efforts were being consolidated at the America's Army program office at Redstone Arsenal in Alabama. A decade after its initial foray into the world of gaming, the Army doesn't appear to be withdrawing from the industry anytime soon. In denying other aspects of the FOIA request, the Army stated 'disclosure of this information is likely to cause substantial harm to the Department of the Army's competitive position in the gaming industry.'"

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