Pentaradio 2008

28.10.2008: #TBA#

Hack des Monats

• Russian Town Puts Giant Smiley On Google Maps
• Preventing forest fires with tree power
• Shining a light on wireless networks

Softwarepatent des Monats

• IBM Wants Patent On Finding Areas Lacking Patents
• Microsoft Patents the Censoring of Speech

news

• AK Vorrat: Alarmierendes Geheimabkommen zur Datenauslieferung an die USA veröffentlicht
• Browser-Klon: Eisen statt Chrom

Chromium-Fork ohne evil Googleness

• So leicht bekommt man den Pass von Elvis
• GNU wird 25

Videobotschaft zum Geburstag von Stephen Fry

• UK police probe eBay sale of MI6 camera
• BT startet freiwillige Internet-Vollüberwachung
• IOC Trademarks Part of Canadian National Anthem
• Skype Messages Monitored In China, schön in Verbindung mit der Skype-eigenen Sicht
• Judge Suppresses Report on Voting Machine Security
• Can Static Electricity Generate Votes?
• California: RFID Anti-Skimming Laws Approved
• Google Profiling Social Network Users
• Anti-Terrorist Data Mining Doesn't Work Very Well
• Neue Gmail-Funktion gegen verpeilte Mails: Matheaufgaben vor dem Senden lösen
• US Customs: Sketching an SUV makes you a copyright infringer
• No IPv6 For UK Broadband Users
• Cisco ships Mexican drug runner music on VPN CD Bootleg bootup CD features Narco Corridos tune
• NSA Whistleblowers Reveal Extent of Eavesdropping und NSA enjoys eavesdropping on US soldiers' phone sex ncalls]
• Walmart Caves On DRM Removal
• UK appeals court rejects encryption key disclosure defense
• Only 4.13% of the Web Is Standards-Compliant
• Tool To Allow ISPs To Scan Every File You Transmit
• Schneier, Journalist Poke Holes In TSA Policies
• RNA-based logic gates compute inside cells
• Das Dänische Parlament gibt einen Überblick über die Offenheit von internationalen Standardisierungsgremien (CEN, ECMA, ETSI, IETF, ISO, ITU, NIST, OASIS, OMG, W3C)
• Record Label Infringes Own Copyright, Site Pulled
• Interpol Pushing World Facial Recognition Database
• Many Universities Spending $100K/Year Enforcing P2P Rules
• DARPA Contract Hints At Real-Time Video Spying
• The evil Google gibt den Androiden als FOSS frei

... und der soll angeblich sogar schon freerunnen.

• Sonicwall thinks XKCD is porn. Stick figure porn
• Aussie govt: Don't criticize our (terrible) 'Net filters
• Biometric identifcation by body language
• New US RFID passports manufactured offshore at a huge profit, transported by unsecured couriers

25.11.2008: #TBA#

Hack des Monats

• A Picture is Worth a Thousand Locksmiths — Schlüssel duplizieren mit Fotos