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Journal by AmiMoJo on Monday October 22, 2018 @12:00PM

In the first hour it got a flood of moderation, ending up 60% insightful/informative and 40% troll. 24 hours later Mashiki posts a rely, within a minute it's up to +1, and the linked comment gets hit with multiple -1 troll mods.

Submission + - WPA2 wireless security cracked

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 20, 2014 @11:53PM

An anonymous reader writes: Achilleas Tsitroulis of Brunel University, UK, Dimitris Lampoudis of the University of Macedonia, Greece and Emmanuel Tsekleves of Lancaster University, UK, have investigated the vulnerabilities in WPA2 and present its weakness. They say that this wireless security system might now be breached with relative ease by a malicious attack on a network. They suggest that it is now a matter of urgency that security experts and programmers work together to remove the vulnerabilities in WPA2 in order to bolster its security or to develop alternative protocols to keep our wireless networks safe from hackers and malware.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2014-03-w...

Submission + - Journalist arrested over poor Facebook security (brisbanetimes.com.au) 1

Submitted by CuteSteveJobs on Tuesday May 17, 2011 @07:04PM

CuteSteveJobs writes: Yesterday Australian Journalist Ben Grubb was arrested by Police at an IT Security Conference after an article Grub wrote about vulnerabilities in Facebook's privacy controls was published on Fairfax media websites. Grubb was later released, but Police have confiscated his iPad.

Late last month Police tried to force fellow Fairfax journalist Linton Besser into revealing who leaked information about corruption. At the time Fairfax Editor Peter Fray called it an unprecdented attack on the freedom of the press. Australia has no explicit right to free speech and lacks shield laws to protect investigative journalists from having to reveal sources.

Submission + - Wireless GeForce Graphics Card Announced (bit-tech.net)

Submitted by arcticstoat on Wednesday January 12, 2011 @08:33AM

arcticstoat writes: PC gamers who are sick of being constantly distracted by whirring fans could now have a helping hand from a new wireless graphics card. Galaxy sub-brand KFA2 has announced a graphics card with no display outputs. Instead, the KFA2 GTX 460 WHDI uses a wireless link to send the display output from your PC to your screen, whether that’s a conventional monitor or the HD TV in your lounge. You just need to attach the bundled receiver to the back of your chosen screen and you’re done. With a wireless keyboard and mouse, you could place your PC at the other end of the room, letting you crank up those fans without having to listen to the whirring next to you.

Hacked iRobot Uses XBox Kinect To See World 124

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday November 18, 2010 @02:59AM from the gesticulating-at-robots dept.

kkleiner writes "A student at MIT's Personal Robotics Group is going to put Microsoft's Kinect to a good use: controlling robots. Philipp Robbel has hacked together the Kinect 3D sensor with an iRobot Create platform and assembled a battery-powered bot that can see its environment and obey your gestured commands. Tentatively named KinectBot, Robbel's creation can generate some beautifully detailed 3D maps of its surroundings and wirelessly send them to a host computer. KinectBot can also detect nearby humans and track their movements to understand where they want it to go." In related but less agreeable news, "Dennis Durkin, who is both COO and CFO for Microsoft's Xbox group, told investors this week that Kinect can also be used by advertisers to see how many people are in a room when an ad is on screen, and to custom-tailor content based on the people it recognizes."

Submission + - Google Not Good Enough Yet for LA Government Work

Submitted by theodp on Tuesday July 27, 2010 @01:58AM

theodp writes: In December, Google tooted its own horn as it celebrated edging out rival Microsoft to win a high-profile, ironically Microsoft-funded contract to supply email and collaboration software to the City of Los Angeles. Now comes word that the search giant has missed a June deadline for full implementation due to lingering security concerns. Google downplayed reports of the delay, saying it was 'very pleased with the progress to date' which has allowed 10,000+ of the City's 34,000 employees to use Google Apps for Government, which Google boasts stores Gmail and Calendar data on U.S. soil.

Submission + - Internet Access While Sailing? (Revisited) (slashdot.org) 1

Submitted by El Genio Malvado on Sunday July 18, 2010 @01:57AM

El Genio Malvado writes: 10 years ago the question was asked, what is the best way to get Internet while at sea..
After reading the responses.. and a decade of technological advancement is there a better more reliable method?
If someone had the ability to telecommute 100% of the time then the idea of Sailing around the world with a Paycheck direct deposited is getting more and more tempting..

What does the community at large have for modern resources for constant streaming internet at sea?

To quote the original posting..
"Who needs land anyway? Give me a boat, the stars, working global wireless Internet and a wind to sail by!"

Submission + - First replicating creature spawned in simulator (newscientist.com)

Submitted by Calopteryx on Thursday June 17, 2010 @05:09AM

Calopteryx writes: "This is arguably the single most impressive and important pattern ever devised," says a Game of Life enthusiast. New Scientist has a story on a self-replicating entity which inhabits the mathematical universe known as the Game of Life. The existence of Gemini could help us understand how life on Earth began, or inspire strategies to build tiny computers

Submission + - Japan to standardize electric vehicle chargers (examiner.com)

Submitted by JoshuaInNippon on Tuesday March 16, 2010 @01:16AM

JoshuaInNippon writes: Four major Japanese car manufacturers and one power company (Mitsubishi, Nissan, Subaru, Toyota, and Tokyo Electric) have teamed up with over 150 business and government entities in Japan to form a group to promote standardization in electric vehicle chargers and charging stations. The group hopes to leverage current Japanese electric vehicle technology and spread standardization throughout the country, as well as aim towards worldwide acceptance of their standardized charger model. In a very Japanese manner, the group has decided to call themselves "CHAdeMO," a play on the English words "charge" and "move," as well as a Japanese pun that encourages tea-drinking while waiting the 15+ minutes it will take to charge one's vehicle battery.

Submission + - 11th Circuit Eliminates 4th Amend. in E-mail (volokh.com)

Submitted by Artefacto on Monday March 15, 2010 @11:18PM

Artefacto writes: Orin Kerr writes in the Volokh Conspiracy:
Last Thursday, the Eleventh Circuit handed down a Fourth Amendment case, Rehberg v. Paulk, that takes a very narrow view of how the Fourth Amendment applies to e-mail. The Eleventh Circuit held that constitutional protection in stored copies of e-mail held by third parties disappears as soon as any copy of the communication is delivered. Under this new decision, if the government wants get your e-mails, the Fourth Amendment lets the government go to your ISP, wait the seconds it normally takes for the e-mail to be delivered, and then run off copies of your messages.

Gaming With GPS On Your Smartphone 43

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday February 27, 2010 @03:33AM from the getting-lost-despite-two-meter-precision dept.

Barence writes "If your handset doesn't get you out and about, tramping through mud, climbing around and hunting for hidden treasure, then something needs an upgrade. The iPhone, Blackberry's Storm and Bold lines, and many Symbian and Android handsets, now sport GPS, which makes your smartphone the ticket to join a global movement of outdoor games. These are outbound challenges that pit teams and solo players against themselves and each other in the search for hidden treasure, undiscovered landmarks, and hidden spots all over the world. This article delves into several of the best smartphone-friendly real-world games, each of which is a bridge between the online and offline worlds."

Submission + - Tesla killing electric car (jalopnik.com) 1

Submitted by Wyatt Earp on Sunday January 31, 2010 @04:25AM

Wyatt Earp writes: At least the only model they've done engineering on is going to be killed.

PS3 Hacked? 296

Posted by Soulskill on Monday January 25, 2010 @07:35AM from the another-one-bites-the-dust dept.

Several readers have sent word that George Hotz (a.k.a. geohot), the hacker best known for unlocking Apple's iPhone, says he has now hacked the PlayStation 3. From his blog post: "I have read/write access to the entire system memory, and HV level access to the processor. In other words, I have hacked the PS3. The rest is just software. And reversing. I have a lot of reversing ahead of me, as I now have dumps of LV0 and LV1. I've also dumped the NAND without removing it or a modchip. 3 years, 2 months, 11 days...that's a pretty secure system. ... As far as the exploit goes, I'm not revealing it yet. The theory isn't really patchable, but they can make implementations much harder. Also, for obvious reasons I can't post dumps. I'm hoping to find the decryption keys and post them, but they may be embedded in hardware. Hopefully keys are setup like the iPhone's KBAG."

Submission + - Chinese used GMail Backdoor as Attack Method (cnn.com)

Submitted by Major Blud on Sunday January 24, 2010 @02:21AM

Major Blud writes: CNN is running an opinion piece on their front page from security technologist Bruce Schneier in which he suggest that "In order to comply with government search warrants on user data, Google created a backdoor access system into Gmail accounts. This feature is what the Chinese hackers exploited to gain access."

His opinion piece is short on sources, and the common belief is that a flaw in IE was the main attack method. Has this come up elsewhere?

Submission + - AT&T Losing iPhone Exclusivity Next Week (hothardware.com)

Submitted by

MojoKid

on Sunday January 24, 2010 @01:08AM

MojoKid writes: "An inside source over at HotHardware reports that AT&T will lose their iPhone exclusivity on 1/27, conincident with Apple's upcoming press event next week, though it's not yet clear what other carriers will be stepping in to pick up the iPhone. For anyone who has followed the saga, you may notice that you haven't seen AT&T fighting to extend their original exclusive agreement as of late. In fact, they have spent most of their time fighting Verizon's negative ad campaigns. This may not be all that surprising. Inside of AT&T, words is that the iPhone is causing more trouble than ever before. On some level, having the iPhone is hurting AT&T's image. Do you remember hearing about AT&T's "horrible network" before the iPhone? The iPhone itself doesn't really handle the switch from 3G to EDGE very gracefully, so calls that are in-progress tend to fail whenever 3G connections aren't optimal and the phone attempts to step down to EDGE. It seems that AT&T may finally be tired of taking the heat."

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