http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=20081005055044446
F1 chief seeks new privacy laws after orgy case
Sunday, October 05 2008 @ 05:50 AM EDT Contributed by: PrivacyNews
Motor racing chief Max Mosley wants Europe to toughen up media privacy laws after he was awarded 60,000 pounds in damages because a newspaper published details of his role in a sado-masochistic orgy.
The head of Formula One's governing body will Monday ask the European Court of Human Rights to force newspapers to notify individuals before publishing information about private lives, Mosley's lawyer said in a statement Saturday.
Source - Reuters
Simple (trivial) column about Identity Theft, but again it suggests there isn't a good comprehensive guide availbale for victims. Anyone want to write one?
http://blog.cleveland.com/business/2008/10/identity_theft_victims_have_ri.html
Identity theft victims have rights to records
Posted by Sheryl Harris/Plain Dealer Consumer Affairs Reporter October 05, 2008 03:28AM
Categories: Consumer affairs Sheryl Harris writes this column in The Plain Dealer on Sundays.
PLAIN DEALING A weekly column about consumer affairs
... The Miami, Ohio, police, with whom you filed your police report, said T-Mobile did not provide it with any records about the account. You also said you had requested records, to no avail.
Company spokeswoman Michelle Webb, however, said by e-mail that T-Mobile would have provided the information if you'd requested it under provisions of the Fair Credit Reporting Act.
... As part of a standard investigation, she said, the company does examine the numbers called against a consumer's other phone accounts or credit report to determine if the account was activated by an unknown party.
You can never be too paranoid.
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/04/1812226&from=rss
Will ParanoidLinux Protect the Truly Paranoid?
Posted by kdawson on Saturday October 04, @04:30PM from the tinfoil-laptop-carrying-case dept. Linux Business Privacy
ruphus13 writes
"There are still places on the world where having anonymity might mean the difference between life and death. Covering one's tracks is considered to be of such paramount importance that we are now witnessing the rise of a Linux distro catering to the most paranoid. The 'alpha-alpha' version of ParanoidLinux is now out. But is this the best way to protect oneself? Couldn't it be easily circumvented? The article asks, 'Why is it necessary to put the applications and services designed to protect anonymity, to encrypt files, to make the user nameless and faceless, all together, in one distribution? Let's think in a truly paranoid manner. Wouldn't it be far easier for a nefarious government organization to target that distribution's repositories, mirror that singular distribution's disk images with files of its own design, and leave every last one of that distribution's users in the great wide open?' What should truly paranoid user do?"
Related This makes things easier for their e-warfare divisions
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/05/0124249&from=rss
Report Says China Will Demand Source Code
Posted by kdawson on Sunday October 05, @04:53AM from the said-the-spider-to-the-fly dept.
An anonymous reader alerts us to a two-week-old story that hasn't gotten much traction in the press to date. A Japanese newspaper and the AP report that China plans to demand source code from hardware manufacturers, and ban the sale of products from companies that don't comply. China is calling this an "obligatory accreditation system for IT security products." The plan is to go into effect next May, according to sources.
"Products expected to be subject to the system are those equipped with secret coding, such as [a] contactless smart card system developed by Sony Corp., digital copiers, and computer servers. The Chinese government said it needs the source code to prevent computer viruses taking advantage of software vulnerabilities and to shut out hackers. [Riiight.. Bob] However, this explanation is unlikely to satisfy concerns that disclosed information might be handed from the Chinese government to Chinese companies. There also are fears that Chinese intelligence services could exploit such confidential information by making it easier to break codes used in... digital devices."
1) Choose your business plan, then 2) IMPLEMENT IT (Step two is as important as step one) Apparently Paramount didn't tell the IT guys how many DVDs they shipped...
http://entertainment.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/04/2158212&from=rss
"Iron Man" Release Brings Down Paramount's Servers
Posted by kdawson on Saturday October 04, @11:35PM from the super-hero-effect dept. Media Movies Entertainment
secmartin writes
"Shortly after the release of Iron Man on Blu-ray on October 1, people started complaining of defective discs; the problem turned out to be that all the Blu-ray players downloading additional content brought down Paramount's BD-Live servers, causing delays while loading the disc. Which really makes you wonder what will happen when they decide to shut down this service in a couple of years."
An undeclaired tech war that isn't getting much press...
http://mobile.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/04/1634259&from=rss
Amazon Kindle 2 Leaked, Sony Reader To Get Touch Screen
Posted by Soulskill on Saturday October 04, @01:24PM from the upgrades dept.
suraj.sun writes with news that the e-book reader market is getting more competitive. The Boy Genius Report got its hands on pictures of the Kindle 2, successor to Amazon's first e-book gadget. The new version is a bit bigger, with edges that are less awkward, and it has a revamped key layout. On the same day these pictures were found, Sony announced that a new model of its Reader would be getting a touchscreen, allowing users to "turn the page by swiping their finger across the screen" and "annotate text using a touchscreen keyboard." The advances for each gadget may help them regain market share against the iPhone, which, according to Forbes, has eclipsed both in popularity as a reading device. Hopefully the competition for sales and the work being done by the OLPC Project will help to drop prices as well.
Another Cloud tool. Might be a good way to ensure you have your presentation with you when you travel...
280 Slides
Every college bookstore should stock these!
http://www.therawfeed.com/2008/10/worst-usb-gadget-yet-usb-drive-full-of.html
Saturday, October 04, 2008
Worst USB Gadget Yet: USB Drive Full Of Beer
Someone from tchotchky seller CNK Promotions sent me a note hawking a new line of attention-grabbing "LIQUID-FILLED USB DRIVES," with the "option of 3D 'floaters'." The example pasted into the e-mail was this awesome -- I mean awful -- Budweiser drive. Capacities range from 128 MB to 8 GB, and prices from $8.84 each to $40 depending on capacity, options and how many you order.
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