http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=20081110053700513
Data “Dysprotection:” breaches reported last week
Monday, November 10 2008 @ 05:37 AM EST Contributed by: PrivacyNews
A recap of incidents or privacy breaches reported last week for those who enjoy shaking their head and muttering to themselves with their morning coffee.
Source - Chronicles of Dissent
We should bring back swallowing goldfish.
Thousands hit in broad Web hack
Hackers have put malicious links on as many as 10,000 servers, security vendor Kaspersky Lab warns
By Robert McMillan, IDG News Service November 10, 2008
... "We’re estimating that in the last two days alone, between 2,000 and 10,000 servers, mainly Western European and American ones, have been hacked," Kaspersky wrote on its Web site Friday, "It’s not yet clear who’s doing this."
... The criminals add a line of JavaScript code onto the hacked sites that redirects victims to one of six servers. These sites, in turn, redirect the visitor to a server in China. That server can launch a variety of attacks, targeting known flaws in Firefox, Internet Explorer, Adobe's Flash Player, and ActiveX, Kaspersky said.
... Judging from their techniques and from his previous research, Thompson believes the attackers are college students based in China and that they may be the same group that notoriously hacked the Web sites of the Miami Dolphins and Dolphin Stadium ahead of the 2007 Super Bowl football championship.
The downside of DRM?
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/09/172219&from=rss
Two New Class-Action Suits Against EA Over DRM
Posted by Soulskill on Sunday November 09, @01:02PM from the ea's-chickens-have-come-home-to-roost dept.
In September, we discussed a class-action suit filed against Electronic Arts over the DRM in Spore. Now, two new class-action suits have been filed that target the SecuROM software included in a free trial of the Spore Creature Creator (PDF) and in The Sims 2: Bon Voyage (PDF). If this sort of legal reprisal continues to catch on, EA could be seeing quite a few class-action suits in the future. One of the suits accuses:
"The inclusion of undisclosed, secretly installed DRM protection measures with a program that was freely distributed constitutes a major violation of computer owners' absolute right to control what does and what does not get loaded onto their computers, and how their computers shall be used ... [SecuROM] cannot be completely uninstalled. Once installed it becomes a permanent part of the consumer's software portfolio ... EA's EULA for Spore Creature Creator Free Trial Edition makes utterly no mention of any Technical Protection Measures, DRM technology, or SecuROM whatsoever."
It looked like a good (voters wanted it) idea. Don't bother us with facts.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/09/1810228&from=rss
Daylight Savings Time Increases Energy Use in Indiana
Posted by timothy on Sunday November 09, @01:58PM from the all-change-has-friction dept. Power Earth
enbody writes
"The Freakonomics Blog at NYTimes.com reports on a study of Indiana energy use for daylight savings time showing an increase in energy use of 1%. 'The dataset consists of more than 7 million observations on monthly billing data for the vast majority of households in southern Indiana for three years. Our main finding is that — contrary to the policy's intent [Intent trumps fact Bob] — D.S.T. increases residential electricity demand.'"
Maybe that's just from millions of coffee makers being pressed into extra duty.
Geeky stuff, but useful.
http://digg.com/software/Five_Best_Remote_Desktop_Tools
Five Best Remote Desktop Tools
lifehacker.com — With the right remote desktop tool, you can access your home computer as though you're sitting right in front of it — no matter where you are, no matter what you're doing. Earlier this week we asked you to share your favorite remote desktop tools, and today we're back with the top five answers.
http://lifehacker.com/5080121/five-best-remote-desktop-tools
Geek alert. Perhaps Google Docs will become a downloadable app?
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/10/0842255&from=rss
StarOffice Dropped From Google Pack
Posted by timothy on Monday November 10, @06:50AM from the stardom-is-temporary dept. Google Software Sun Microsystems News
Barence writes
"Sun's StarOffice suite has been mysteriously dropped from the Google Pack of free software. The office suite has been axed without any warning or explanation on the Google site. Is Google trying to drive more people towards its own online suite of office applications? Or has it been stung into action by Steve Ballmer's recent comment that Microsoft Office faces stronger competition from StarOffice than it does Google Docs and Spreadsheet?"
Competition for Google? See, it can be done!
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10092283-93.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5
MGM first to post full-length features to YouTube
Posted by Greg Sandoval November 9, 2008 6:01 PM PST
.. The studios have Hulu to thank for forcing Google to soften its approach. Hulu, the video portal formed by NBC Universal and News Corp., has become the top outlet for watching full-length films and TV shows on the Web. The site is generating as many ad dollars in only its first year in business as the three-year-old YouTube, according to reports.
Interesting idea: Do well in school, get out two years early. What if the State also paid for the first two College years?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20081107/us_time/shouldkidsbeabletograduateafter10thgrade
Should Kids Be Able to Graduate After 10th Grade?
By Kathleen Kingsbury – Fri Nov 7, 4:50 am ET
High school sophomores should be ready for college by age 16. That's the message from New Hampshire education officials, who announced plans Oct. 30 for a new rigorous state board of exams to be given to 10th graders. Students who pass will be prepared to move on to the state's community or technical colleges, skipping the last two years of high school.
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