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Comment Re:There is an actual 3D cad for Linux out there.. (Score 1) 100

by jerryluc (#35450778) Attached to: DraftSight 2D CAD For Linux Beta Available
UG/NX is also for Linux and Mac. The Linux version is only said to be supported on Suse Linux, but I think with some tweaking you should manage to run it on any Linux flavor. All though the Mac and Linux versions doesn't look as polished as the Windows version, both Mac and Linux versions are full featured UG/NX software. NX on Wikipedia Also ProE seems to have a UNIX version, according to wikipedia.

Submission + - FBI Monitoring Facebook (bbc.co.uk) 2

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The BBC reports that armed police were called to a UK school earlier today after being advised of a potential threat by the FBI. The school stated that the FBI "raised the alarm after internet scanning software picked up a suspicious combination of words", strongly implying that they are carrying out routine, automated surveillance of social networking sites. While in this case it does appear that there may have been a genuine threat, the story nonetheless raises significant privacy concerns.

Submission + - IEEE working group considers kinder, gentler DRM (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by slave5tom
slave5tom writes: IEEE working group is trying to put the genie back in the bottle. Their scheme will allow unlimited copying of encrypted content, which will require a playkey to activate. Trying to add a cost by making the playkey "rivalrous" (what you take I lose) and rescuing the big content palyers from the brink of oblivion does seem futile, however it is entertaining watching them fight the inevitable.

Comment Re:.NET Anyone? (Score 1) 265

by maxume (#30145292) Attached to: Firefox 3.6 Locks Out Rogue Add-ons

Actually, even if Firefox kept an encrypted store of what DLLs it had told the user about, there really isn't any way to prevent a malicious program from simply replicating the code used to create the store, so it would be pretty hard to always notify the user.

Google update is initiated here on my system (it looks like it is intended to facilitate installing updates to Google software while using Firefox, I would be surprised if it was doing anything nefarious):

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MozillaPlugins

I guess the DRM plugins are loaded because Firefox treats the Windows Media Player directory as a plug-in directory, by default:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Plugin_scanning

Submission + - SSL renegotiation attack becomes reality (theregister.co.uk)

Submitted by rastos1
rastos1 writes: A Turkish grad student has devised a serious, real-world attack on Twitter that targeted a recently discovered vulnerability in the SSL protocol. The exploit by Anil Kurmus is significant because it successfully targeted the so-called SSL renegotiation bug to steal Twitter login credentials that passed through encrypted data streams. All in all, a man in the middle is able to steal the credentials of a user authenticating himself through HTTPS to a trusted website.

The attack description is available on securegoose.org

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