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Archive for November, 2007
Al Gore’s Web Site Hacked
Al Gore’s Web Site has been hacked and is hosting links to Web sites hawking online pharmaceuticals. The links appear to have been created as part of a scheme to boost the Web traffic for sites that promote the drugs. They contain titles such as “Xanax On Line,” “Viagra,” and “Buy Valium Online.”
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Pirate Bay laughs off three-pronged legal assault
The Pirate Bay is now facing three legal battles in the new year from a Swedish prosecutor, Prince, and the IFPI. The site’s response? “It’s kinda funny,” a Pirate Bay admin tells Ars.
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The hijack-proof truck!
You can’t go far wrong in a truck equipped with an Astrata box. The device, half the size of a cigarette pack, can be wired into anything that moves - truck, car, shipping container - to head off nearly every conceivable type of disaster. It can be programmed to stop a drunk or unauthorized driver […]
Protecting IM from the NSA, a Canadian’s view
Leading security researcher and co-creator of the Off-the-Record Messaging (OTR) protocol discusses why you should use OTR to make sure your instant messages remain private. This is especially important given the NSA’s recent wiretapping activities and the increasing prominence of Big Brother.
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Secret Warrants Granted for Cellphone Tracking
Federal officials are routinely asking courts to order cellphone companies to give real-time tracking data so they can pinpoint the whereabouts of drug traffickers, fugitives and other criminal suspects, according to judges and industry lawyers. In some cases, judges have granted requests without requiring government to demonstrate probable cause.
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Poor Anti-Pirates: E-mail About Leaked IFPI Email Gets Leaked
The infamous anti-piracy organization IFPI sent an email to warn its members NOT to any send email to colleagues that use an xxx@ifpi.com email address because that domain is now owned by their rivals from the “International Federation of Pirate Interests”. Unfortunately the members did not listen, and even the email about the leak leaked
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Going to the UK? Plan On Leaving Your Privacy Behind
…Whether it’s to show us that anything we can do they can do better or simply creeping authoritarianism, the British government is putting into effect a hugely expensive plan to collect a wide variety of data on every traveler daring to enter or leave those sceptered isles, whether by air, sea or ground…
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UK Tax Man “Mis-places” CD with 15 MILLION Names, Addresses + Bank Accounts
Last week they admitted they lost a disc with 15,000 records on it. Now they wanted to up their game by a few of orders of magnitude. 15 million British citizens are now at risk after their data goes missing and HM Revenue & Customs has no idea where the discs have gone. Is this […]
MySpace Hacker Tells His Story
If Samy Kamkar plays his cards right, he may be allowed to visit MySpace again in just a few months. For the time being, however, he’s not even allowed to touch a computer, following a January 2007 guilty plea for creating what many consider to be the first Web 2.0 worm: the Samy worm.
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