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Submission + - Yet another comprimising preinstalled "glitch" with Lenovo laptops

Submitted by execthis
execthis writes: Japanese broadcaster NHK is reporting that yet another privacy/security-compromising "glitch" has been found to exist in preinstalled software on Lenovo laptops. The article states that the glitch was found in Spring and that in late July Lenovo began releasing a program to uninstall the difficult-to-remove software.

The article does not specify, but it could be referring to a BIOS utility called Lenovo Service Engine (LSE) for which Lenovo has released a security advisory with links to removal tools for various models.

Comment Re:Brazil (Score 1) 216

by izzix (#31918340) Attached to: Google Enumerates Government Requests
Anonymity is not allowed under Brazilian law because you have the right response on anything that was said about you, if what is published is different from reality. And I think it's quite fair... And in almost all requests reflect judicial order or public ministry where there is criminal activity under Brazilian law. (e.g. pedophilia, drug trafficking, Nazism) If taking down sites, blogs and orkut profiles that infringe brazilian law is a form of censorship, what can I say about Digital Millennium Copyright Act (Lei de Direitos Autorais do Milênio Digital).

Comment Re:Brazilian Censorship (Score 1) 216

by izzix (#31918068) Attached to: Google Enumerates Government Requests
First
Anonymity is not allowed under Brazilian law because you have the right response on anything that was said about you, if what is published is different from reality. And I think it's quite fair...

And in almost all requests reflect judicial order or public ministry where there is criminal activity under Brazilian law. (e.g. pedophilia, drug trafficking, Nazism)

Second
if taking down sites, blogs and orkut profiles that infringe brazilian law is a form of censorship, what can I say about Digital Millennium Copyright Act (Lei de Direitos Autorais do Milênio Digital).
Hardware Hacking

Contest To Hack Brazilian Voting Machines 101

Posted by Soulskill from the hack-the-vote dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Brazilian elections went electronic many years ago, with very fast results but a few complaints from losers, of course. Next month, 10 teams that accepted the challenge will have access to hardware and software (Google translation; original in Portuguese) for the amount of time they requested (from one hour to four days). Some will try to break the vote's secrecy and some will try to throw in malicious code to change the entered votes without leaving traces."
Biotech

DNA Differences Observed Between Blood and Organs 85

Posted by kdawson from the same-old-same-old dept.
Scrameustache writes "Researcher working on a rare type of aortic abnormality found that the DNA from diseased tissue did not match the DNA from the blood of the same patients So far it's unclear whether these differences in the blood and aortic tissue are the consequence of RNA editing, which changes the messenger RNA but not the gene, or DNA editing, which involves differences in the gene itself. Based on the evidence so far, the researchers believe the differences resulted from developmental rather than somatic DNA alterations. 'Traditionally when we have looked for genetic risk factors for, say, heart disease, we have assumed that the blood will tell us what's happening in the tissue,' lead author Bruce Gottlieb said in a statement. 'It now seems this is simply not the case.'"
Earth

Brazil Demands Repatriation of UK Hazardous Waste 110

Posted by kdawson from the got-enough-of-our-own-thanks dept.
Peace Corps Online writes "BBC reports that Brazilian authorities are demanding the return of more than 1,400 tons of hazardous British waste found in about 90 shipping containers on three Brazilian docks. The waste, which includes syringes, condoms, and bags of blood, has been identified as being of UK origin from the names of British supermarkets and newspapers among the rubbish. Reports in the UK media say the waste was sent from Felixstowe in eastern England to the port of Santos, near Sao Paulo, and two other ports in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul. The British government has launched an investigation into how and why the waste was sent to Brazil and the British Embassy in Brazil has said in a statement that it was investigating and would 'not hesitate to act' if it was found that a UK company had violated the Basel Convention on the movement of hazardous waste. Meanwhile Brazil is demanding the immediate return of the rubbish to the UK. 'We will ask for the repatriation of this garbage,' says Roberto Messias, head of the Brazilian environment agency. 'Clearly, Brazil is not a big rubbish dump of the world.'" Two UK companies named by Brazil as suspected exporters of the waste are owned by a Brazilian, based in the UK, who says that anything that was in the containers other than the expected recyclable plastic is a problem to take up with his suppliers.
Government

We Were Smarter About Copyright Law 100 Years Ago 152

Posted by kdawson from the intelligent-debate dept.
An anonymous reader writes "James Boyle has a blog post comparing the recording industry's arguments in 1909 to those of 2009, with some lovely Google book links to the originals. Favorite quote: 'Many and numerous classes of public benefactors continue ceaselessly to pour forth their flood of useful ideas, adding to the common stock of knowledge. No one regards it as immoral or unethical to use these ideas and their authors do not suffer themselves to be paraded by sordid interests before legislative committees uttering bombastic speeches about their rights and representing themselves as the objects of "theft" and "piracy."' Industry flaks were more impressive 100 years ago. In that debate the recording industry was the upstart, battling the entrenched power of the publishers of musical scores. Also check out the cameo appearance by John Philip Sousa, comparing sound recordings to slavery. Ironically, among the subjects mentioned as clearly not the subject of property rights were business methods and seed varieties." Boyle concludes: "...one looks back at these transcripts and compares them to today's hearings — with vacuous rantings from celebrities and the bloviation of bad economics and worse legal theory from one industry representative after another — it is hard not to feel a sense of nostalgia. In 1900, it appears, we were better at understanding that copyright was a law that regulated technology, a law with constitutional restraints, that property rights were not absolute and that the public would not automatically be served by extending rights out to infinity."

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