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Comment Re:It's really just about appearance for Mac fans (Score 1) 783

by raven1268 on Tuesday October 21, 2008 @06:29PM (#25461033) Attached to: Doing the Math On the New MacBook

I just fail to see the importance of aesthetics in a machine. When I'm using a computer, I'm typically looking at the screen - reading things on it, or watching pretty graphics do things on it. I don't really care whether there is a glowing LED light on the back. Maybe I am just too middle-class to really be able to spend hundreds of dollars more for "aesthetics."

Tool To Allow ISPs To Scan Every File You Transmit 370

Posted by timothy on Thursday October 16, 2008 @06:03PM from the in-case-they-run-out-of-human-tools dept.

timdogg writes "Brilliant Digital Entertainment, an Australian software company, has grabbed the attention of the NY attorney general's office with a tool they have designed that can scan every file that passes between an ISP and its customers. The tool can 'check every file passing through an Internet provider's network — every image, every movie, every document attached to an e-mail or found in a Web search — to see if it matches a list of illegal images.' As with the removal of the alt.binary newgroups, this is being promoted under the guise of preventing child porn. The privacy implications of this tool are staggering."

UK Court Rejects Encryption Key Disclosure Defense 708

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday October 16, 2008 @03:59AM from the do-not-pass-go dept.

truthsearch writes "Defendants can't deny police an encryption key because of fears the data it unlocks will incriminate them, a British appeals court has ruled. The case marked an interesting challenge to the UK's Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA), which in part compels someone served under the act to divulge an encryption key used to scramble data on a PC's hard drive. The appeals court heard a case in which two suspects refused to give up encryption keys, arguing that disclosure was incompatible with the privilege against self incrimination. In its ruling, the appeals court said an encryption key is no different than a physical key and exists separately from a person's will."

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