Pentaradio 2009

23.6.2009: Unix Geburtstagsparty

Softwarepatent des Monats

• IBM Wants Patent For Regex SSN Validation

Hack des Monats

• EFF Posts ‘Terms of Service’ Tracker
• ThinkSafe: A Magnetic Power Connector for Thinkpads
• 15-Year-Old Invents Algae-Powered Energy System

news

Jamendo among the world’s 100 best websites!

jamendo.com is a winner in Cnet.com’s Webware 100 list of the world’s best websites. It is even listed as the first site in the first category (music).

• Data Breach Exposes RAF Staff To Blackmail
• .ORG Zone Signed With DNSSEC
• Secret US List of Civil Nuclear Sites Released download
• What a non-neutral 'Net looks like, UK-style
• Hacker reverse-engineered ACMA blacklist
• Internet Tax Approved By Louisiana House
• New fashion copyright bill will let big companies own public domain designs and bury young, indie designers in legal costs
• More hard data on the impact of free/pirated downloads on book-sales (yes, free downloads are broadly correlated with higher overall sales)
• What the government doesn’t understand about the Internet, and what to do about it
• Public Resource's FedFlix digitizing hundreds of hours of gov video archives at no expense to tax payer archive.org ftp, rsync etc
• Hacker ‘Dark Tangent’ Joins DHS Advisory Council
• Hacker-Tool Law Still Does Little und German hacker-tool law snares...no-one - Security researchers are put out
• Voting Machine Company Agrees to Hand Over Source Code
• Mandatory censorware comes to Chinese PCs on Jul 1 - Chinese censorware will expose every PC in the nation of malware, ID theft, botnetting
• UK Government Announces Broadband Tax
• Passengers Cheat Flu Scan With Fever Reducers
• Adresshandel: Die Wirtschaft hat gewonnen
• City in Montana requires job applicants to hand over all social network logins and passwords for background checks, now: Bozeman apologizes, backs down over Facebook login request
• UK cop: 'War on terror means no pictures of police vans in disabled parking spots'
• Wo sind die Hersteller von Faxgeräten, die anprangern, dass man keine Faxgeräte-Messen mehr ausrichten könne, weil im Internet Texte einfach so verschickt werden, ohne dafür zu bezahlen?
• Is Privacy An Illusion? Facebook ‘Fans’ Claim Hack Exposes Private Profile Information
• US Department of Defense classes protests as "low-level terrorism"
• Nokia and Siemens provided surveillance tools used to bust Iranian activists
• Social networking sites are legally responsible for their users' privacy
• Consumer groups around the world demand transparency on secret copyright treaty
• Researchers expand clinical study of brain implant
• Atari Sub-Sub-Contractor Used ScummVM For Wii Game
• China: State censors block all Google services
• Hintertüren in Telco-Equipment hinterlassen scheint sich zum Breitensport zu entwickeln
• Illegal e-waste dumped in Ghana includes unencrypted hard drives full of US security secrets

24.11.2009: Nichts zu verbergen unterm Weihnachtsbaum

Inhalt

Weihnachten und der damit verbundene Warenaustausch nähert sich. Wir zeigen einige Geschenke auf, welche die inneren Werte würdigen, einladen diese zu erkunden und bei denen nicht die Kontrolle verliert.

Links zum Thema

• wikipedia: rockbox