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Internet Archive Gets DMCA Exemption 84

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday November 29, 2006 @05:02PM from the hizt0ry-cr4ckz-and-pa55w0rds dept.

Paul Hickman writes "The Internet Archive has successfully lobbied for a DMCA exemption for the Software Archive. The IA keeps out-of-date programs, games and other random craziness for future programmers to savor. At the rapid pace of software development, this makes sure that we can create a history for us to remember and wonder at the programming of early games."

How Do Developers Handle Moral Dilemmas? 268

Posted by Cliff on Tuesday November 28, 2006 @02:45AM from the tough-choices dept.

DwightFagen asks: "I'm curious to know how developers in the Slashdot community handle situations in which they are given a project that rubs against their moral borders. I was recently hired as a Flash developer for a design and development company and am just beginning my second project. This particular assignment is to build the video portion of an online magazine. This magazine deals with various topics and is by no means a pornographic site (although some content may border on that), but it seems one of its key tenets is to be untethered by social moral values. Though I do not believe such things should in any way be censored or banned from the internet, I do not wish to actively support something I believe to be an exploitation of human beings. What would you in the Slashdot community do in such a situation? Have any of you dealt with something like this before?"

Comment Re:Apple flaw? No. (Score 1) 42

by spinja on Sunday November 12, 2006 @04:27PM (#16815862) Attached to: "Month of Kernel Bugs" Project Head Interviewed

Try putting a fresh 10.4.8 install on an Intel Mac and running the new Broadcom exploit against it. Now try it with the patch Apple released a month after the Black Hat presentation. Is this the same bug? Did they reverse engineer Apple's patches to find this? Why are they NOT claiming that this is the infamous bug? Why would they bother faking an exploit in the first place? Why isn't Apple listed as a vulnerable vendor in the MoKB advisory? My opinion is that the rabid response the Gruber's fans have turned them off from ever "addressing" the Mac community with any "proof" they have to offer. Regarding the old Airport bug I found -- its the hardware I happened to have. If you want to send me a shiny new Intel Mac, I would be more than happy to start dumping wireless driver bugs for that platform as well. Hardware hacking is expensive dammit :-)

Code Execution Bug In Broadcom Wi-Fi Driver 157

Posted by Zonk on Sunday November 12, 2006 @07:10AM from the catch-that-insect dept.

2U*U2 writes to mention an EWeek article about an entry in the Month of Kernel Bugs. John Ellch has discovered a critical vulnerability in the Broadcom wireless driver: a driver used in machines from HP, Dell, Gateway, and eMachines. From the article: "[The bug] is a stack-based buffer overflow in the Broadcom BCMWL5.SYS wireless device driver that could be exploited by attackers to take complete control of a Wi-Fi-enabled laptop. The vulnerability is caused by improper handling of 802.11 probe responses containing a long SSID field and can lead to arbitrary kernel-mode code execution. The volunteer ZERT (Zero Day Emergency Response Team) warns that the flaw could be exploited wirelessly if a vulnerable machine is within range of the attacker."

"Month of Kernel Bugs" Project Head Interviewed 42

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday November 11, 2006 @12:30PM from the getting-to-know dept.

An anonymous reader writes "November has been labelled the 'Month of Kernel Bugs' in security circles. The Month of Kernel Bugs began on November 1, with the publication of a vulnerability in Apple's AirPort drivers. SecuriTeam blogs did an interview with LMH, who hosts the project."

Bomb Explodes At PayPal Headquarters 551

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday November 01, 2006 @01:31PM from the disgruntled-customers dept.

Pooua writes to tell us that an explosive device left outside of PayPal headquarters exploded last night. The explosion was powerful enough to knock out one of their plate glass windows but thankfully that was the only casualty of the blast. Perhaps they should have offered employee protection instead?

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