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iTunes DRM-Free Files Contain Personal Info 693

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday January 13, 2009 @03:39AM from the musical-steganography dept.

r2k writes "Apple's iTunes Plus files are DRM-free, but sharing the files on P2P networks may be an extremely bad idea. A report published by CNet highlights the fact that the account information and email address of the iTunes account holder is hidden inside each and every DRM-free download. I checked, and I found I couldn't access the information using an ID3 tag editor, but using Notepad I found my email address stored inside the audio file itself."

Comment Re:First post? (Score 1) 274

by kapowaz on Friday March 14, 2008 @07:15AM (#22749434) Attached to: High Expectations For Google Android

Does that take into account all those people who bought a machine with Linux on it and removed it in favour of Windows XP?

World's Most Powerful Rail Gun Delivered to US Navy 615

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday January 28, 2008 @04:19PM from the wanting-what-you-can't-have dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The world's most powerful functional rail gun capable of accelerating projectiles up to Mach 8 has been delivered to the Navy. The new rail gun is a 32-megajoule Electro-Magnetic Laboratory Rail Gun. The Navy eventually hopes to have 64-megajoule ship mounted rail guns. 'The lab version doesn't look particularly menacing -- more like a long, belt-fed airport screening device than like a futuristic cannon -- but the system will fire rounds at up to Mach 8, drawing on tremendous amounts of electricity to generate the current for each test shot. That, of course, is the problem with rail guns: Like lasers, they're out of step with modern-day generators and capacitors. Eight and 9-megajoule rail guns have been fired before, but providing 3 million amps of power per shot has been a limitation.'"

British "Secure" Passports Cracked 305

Posted by CowboyNeal on Friday November 17, 2006 @07:31AM from the trust-us dept.

hard-to-get-a-nickna writes "The Guardian has cracked the so-trumpeted secure British passports after 48 hours of work: 'Three million Britons have been issued with the new hi-tech passport, designed to frustrate terrorists and fraudsters. So why did Steve Boggan and a friendly computer expert find it so easy to break the security codes?'"

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