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Crowdfunded Bounty For Hacking iPhone 5S Fingerprint Authentication 148

Posted by Unknown Lamer from the good-luck-with-that dept.
judgecorp writes "There's more than $13,000 pledged for a crowdfunded bounty for bypassing an iPhone 5S's fingerprint reader. The bounty, set up by a security expert and an exploit reseller, requires entrants to lift prints 'like from a beer mug.' It has a website — IsTouchIDHackedYet — and payments are pledged by tweets using #IsTouchIDHackedYet. One drawback: the scheme appears to rely on trust that sponsors will actually pay up." Other prizes include whiskey, books, and a bottle of wine.
Image

China's Nine-Day Traffic Jam Tops 62 Miles 198

Posted by samzenpus from the living-on-the-road dept.
A traffic jam on the Beijing-Tibet expressway has now entered its ninth day and has grown to over 62 miles in length. This mother-of-all delays has even spawned its own micro-economy of local merchants selling water and food at inflated prices to stranded drivers. Can you imagine how infuriating it must be to see someone leave their blinker on for 9 days?
Games

Portal 2 Gets Release Date 110

Posted by Soulskill from the it's-been-a-long-time dept.
AndrewGOO9 writes "After what has seemed like an eternity since Valve initially announced a sequel to their lauded puzzle title Portal, a release date has finally been attached to the game. Originally slated to be released before the end of the year in time for the holidays, Valve instead opted to delay the game, citing reasons such as, 'making games is hard' as well as continuing their tradition of releasing games when they're finished as opposed to rushing them out the door. Either way, mark your calendars for February 9th, 2011, and in the meantime, brush up on thinking with portals." There's some new gameplay footage available, and Valve announced that Stephen Merchant will be lending his voice to the game.
Data Storage

Coming Soon, 250 DVDs In a Quarter-Sized Device 209

Posted by kdawson from the video-library-in-your-pocket dept.
Several readers have remarked on a new technique developed by scientists at UC Berkeley and University of Massachusetts Amherst that has the promise of achieving storage densities of 10 terabits per square inch. "The method lets microscopic nanoscale elements precisely assemble themselves over large surfaces. ... Xu explained that the molecules in the thin film of block copolymers — two or more chemically dissimilar polymer chains linked together — self-assemble into an extremely precise, equidistant pattern when spread out on a surface... Russell and Xu conceived of the elegantly simple solution of layering the film of block copolymers onto the surface of a commercially available sapphire crystal. When the crystal is cut at an angle... and heated to 1,300 to 1,500 degrees Centigrade... for 24 hours, its surface reorganizes into a highly ordered pattern of sawtooth ridges that can then be used to guide the self-assembly of the block polymers."
Software

Submission + - Apple claims that Jailbreaking is illegal

Submitted by rmav
rmav writes: Apple has finally made a statement about jailbreaking: they try to sell the idea that it is a copyright infringement and DMCA violation.

http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/02/apple-says-jailbreaking-illegal

This, despite the fact (as the linked article states) that courts have ruled that copying software while reverse engineering is a fair use when done for purposes of fostering interoperability with independently created software.

I cannot but think that the recent flood of iPhone cracked applications is responsible for this. Before that, Apple was quietly ignoring the jailbreak scene. Now, I suppose that in the future we may only install extra applications on our iPhones as ad hoc installs using the SDK, and if we want turn-by-turn directions, tethering, and the like, we have to compile these apps by ourselves? Maybe we should go and download the cydia source code and see what we can do with it...

Comment Sounds a lot like.... (Score 1) 197

by mbreitba (#26136117) Attached to: Canadian Nuke Bunker To Be Converted Into Data Fortress
The infobunker - http://www.infobunker.com/ I've actually visited the facility, and it's pretty impressive. Those cold-war guys really took things an extra step. Overall, a little more than what I need for my hosting needs, but if someone needed security, those facilities definately provide the needed protection.

Comment This is exactly what linux needs (Score 1) 505

by mbreitba (#20437891) Attached to: New Failsafe Graphics Mode For Ubuntu
I would say I'm above the average computer user. I've configured FreeBSD to act as a back-end spam filtering and anti-virus filtering system. It works great, I can set up a box in about an hour or two, depending on how fast it compiles SpamAssassin and ClamAV. My laptop's Windows XP installation bombed out about a month ago. I said to myself, this is your chance to install Linux, use it as your browsing platform, and get really familiar with it in your spare time. I tried 5 (count them 5!) different distro's. I wanted to get one of them to load simply onto my laptop, give me an x-windows environment where I could check on web crap, and learn the rest of it at my own pace. I tried Fedora Core first. Graphics issue. Tried Ubuntu. Graphics issue. Tried Debian, graphics issue (granted, this one was the best of all of them - I could actually get a graphics display, it was just a double image - totally unusable). Tried FreeBSD. Graphics issue. Tried Slack. Graphics issue. None of these so-called mainstream distro's would allow me to pop in a disk, and get my laptop working without serious headaches. I finally (after two days of downloading ISO's, burning them, trying them) gave up, and installed XP again. 1 hour later and 8-10 mouse clicks, and my system was working without any sort of real input from me other than my name, company, and cd key. I like Linux for it's ability to be tailored exactly to your use. I like that I can configure it to do SPAM filtering, and only SPAM filtering. I don't like that I have to jump through 8 burning hoops to get a simple desktop with a browser. Maybe this will give me the tools I need to finally be able to have a linux system that I can actually use daily, and then figure out the guts of when I'm not trying to put out fires at work. I can only imagine how intimidating it would be to someone who has a hard time using Windows.

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