Pentaradio 2009 06

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

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