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Submission + - MS Kinect SDK comming to a windows near you! (microsoft.com)

Submitted by fredr1k on Tuesday March 01, 2011 @10:47AM

fredr1k writes: Microsoft figured there is some movement in the Kinect hacking scene. They have now announced a Kinect SDK for Windows. (Though only for Academics & Enthusiasts)

Ever since the November launch of Kinect for Xbox 360, enthusiasts and academic researchers alike have expressed their excitement and intense interest in the possibilities created by the products ability to enable users to bring games and entertainment to life without using a controller.

While Microsoft plans to release a commercial version at a later date, this SDK will be a starter kit to make it simpler for the academic research and enthusiast communities to create rich natural user interfaces using Kinect technology.

Seems like they took impression from the hackers and embraced their movement!

Now I only wonder who is going to implement Kinect controll into Media Portal and XMBC?

Submission + - Bad password policy reason to swedish "waterga

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fredr1k

on Wednesday September 06, 2006 @05:29AM

fredr1k writes: "The Swedish Watergate reported earlier this week was possible because of the usage of terrible weak passwords and a not functional IT policy. The Swedish newspaper Göterborgs-Posten reports the source of the password was a partymember whos account was "sigge" with password "sigge" and was "stolen" in march this year. Seasoned /. readers would call it "a-not-so-hard-to-crack-password".

This exposed the very weak security routines at the Swedish Socialist Party. They allowed very weak passwords, they allowed username as password, they had no password life time policy and seemed to have no access restrictions on the published information. Knowing that all members of a party more or less aspire to run the country in one or another way is mind boggeling. The same persons that can't have a working internal security want to run the country and are responsible for making IT-related laws, a field they clearly dont understand.

Put in perspective, this aint just a problem for a political party. We have goverments all over the world, run by the same kind of people. We have companies also run by the same kind of IT ignorant leadership (demanding short passwords, blank admin-passwords etc). When will this come to an end?"

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