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...which is made for this purpose.
 
You could use MHDD to do this. Just password protect your drive using an ATA-command, then hack into it 3 times (MHDD does this automatically) to activate the security erase of the harddrive.
Wait a little while (2-6 hours, depending on the harddrive), and you're done.

I can also recommend this article, which details info on the very subject of erase protocols for harddrive, including DOD-protocols.

Doug Edwards, Google's Director of Consumer Marketing and Brand Management from 1999-2005, has started blogging as Xoogler

you can find more information about here-
http://www.addict3d.org/index.php?page=viewarticle &type=news&ID=13483

Has already happened, happens often, and will happen again, in many anti virus products, including MS's.

addict3d is running a story titled MPAA: pirated DVDs are "New Drug On The Street"

"A lot of people we were arresting had drug conviction backgrounds. Actually, what they said was, 'This is the new drug on the street,'" said Supik, an MPAA field investigator who assists local law enforcement in anti-piracy raids.

Where's the physical addiction?! If I stop watching or playing will I go into convulsions?

Computer Associates

addict3d (more info than the CA link above)

It doesn't look very exploitable, but it is worrysome.

Even though a nearly-identical story is being run on a number of online news sites (not just The Inquirer), I'm not convinced it's at all valid - none but one of them has a source attribution (the article on Addict3d points to a source on FlexBeta, but that goes nowhere).

I can't find anything in Sony/SCUS/SCEA media releases about it.

The first iPod shipped October 23, 2001. I can't believe that Apple managed to design, prototype, test, mass produce, market and ship the iPod in 9 months.

They're good, aren't they? :-)

Seriously, they didn't develop the hardware, they bought it. They developed the software in a few months in 2001. And the patent is about the software.

At least that's the chronology on this page.

I hate to tell you this, but they're trying...

http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/communications/0,2000 061791,39202379,00.htm
http://www.cnet.com.au/mp3players/musicsoftware/so a/Music_industry_gains_discovery_win_in_Aussie_MP3 _site_case/0,39029154,40003501,00.htm
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/business/0,39023166,3 9177280,00.htm
http://www.out-law.com/page-5942
http://addict3d.org/index.php?page=viewarticle&typ e=news&ID=275

They're all stories about the Australian ISP being sued for hosting a site that contained links to copyrighted material.

Not good.

GNOME 2.12 will be released to the world on September 7th, 2005, culminating 6 months of very exciting work by members of the project. A number of exciting technologies come together in GNOME 2.12 that will set the standard for free software desktops to come. you can read much more here

Link is already dead..

- Newsforge

- ADDICT3D

Linspire, Inc. and TransGaming Technologies today announced the release of Cedega for the Linspire desktop Linux operating system, allowing Linspire users to play hundreds of popular Windows-format games right out of the box. TransGaming's innovative Cedega portability technology, combined with the Point2Play graphical front end, offers equivalent game-play experience and performance, making it possible for avid Linux gamers to play titles like Half-Life 2, World of WarCraft and Battlefield 1942 on their machines. The product, which can be downloaded and installed through Linspire's CNR (click and run) software library for $44.95 USD, includes one year of access to Cedega plus regular software updates and membership to TransGaming. For more information or to purchase Cedega for Linspire, please visit www.linspire.com/Cedega.

Standard Resolution right now is 640x480. That comes out to 307,200 pixels. True High definition is 1920x1080 which is 2,073,600 pixels. That's 6.75 times more pixels. Thus if you use the same compression methods it's not far-fetched to assume that the compressed size is also 6.75 times the size of standard res compressed. A DVD holds at max a little over 9 GB. If you use it all (and it's safe to say that many now do) then to go to true High Definition you need over 60 GB of storage, more than twice what HD-DVD can hold. You might point out that blu-ray can't even hold that much. Yes it can. TDK has developed a 100 GB version (http://www.blu-ray.com/) and I've heard a 200 GB version is in the works (http://addict3d.org/index.php?page=viewarticle&ty pe=news&ID=3062). HD-DVD should die. It's a lame excuse for an upgrade.

I tried to submit an item about hacker vigilianties who attack phishing sites back on May 31. Unfortunately, I can't spell and coverage of actual effective anti-fraud hacks were not interesting enough.
We all have a gripe against spammers and phishers and I for one would welcome a book or web page that showed ways to harm the interests of internet and email abusers [ways that could ONLY harm such abusers, otherwise, we just arm the enemy] Is that too tall an order?

These guys are turning the world around every day.

Another related article worth reading is about the price war between the concoles and if they can bring the death to PC gaming.

To whom it may concern:

How To Crack WEP - Part 1: Setup & Network Recon
and
How To Crack WEP - Part 2: Performing the Crack

Are 2 more interesting cracking articles I came across lately.

To whom it may concern:

How To Crack WEP - Part 1: Setup & Network Recon
and
How To Crack WEP - Part 2: Performing the Crack

Are 2 more interesting cracking articles I came across lately.

There is a liquid metal availble!!!

Metalic glass

Well, unlike CERT in US, FrSIRT is nothing official in France (and I had never heard of it before). It's just a private company. It's more like Secunia, creating an exploit database to get a name. It's all marketing :).

What's fun is that in France, it is now illegal to reveal an exploit (even to the product's owner) because "it shoudln't have been found/tested in the first place". You know, if you find an exploit, it 'obviously' means you were looking for some... Blah. Stupid laws and government.

So yeah it looks like a hacker alias, and I guess it is the "repented" hacker thing ("I used winnuke 10 years ago, now let's create a company who protects netizens, yeah").

IMHO, The name is quite lame for a company that hasn't anything to do with an official mission assigned by the French government (it has nothing especially French, except its nationality and location). This name is misleading.

Anyway, I guess it was a great marketing coup to steal the bug report of another to get the press AND the Slashdot effect :)

A^C^E, a Firefox security researcher, is claiming on Addict3D.org that this is a 0day duplicate of a leaked, known bug. He says, "I suspect that my server was compromised, and I am currently using my contacts to find the culprit and bring him to justice."

Also, bugzilla.mozilla.org is claiming they've been slashdotted. Go easy on em.

I wonder if Google has ever Linpack'd its clusters to get some idea of the computational power driving their services. I would imagine it would rank pretty high. Here is a tidbit from an article I found...


"Assuming that the 1Ghz chip is going at about a third the gigaflops of a 2Ghz processor (3.3Gflops), we can then guess at the size of the Google supercomputer. Just for the sake of argument, let's go with 1 Gigaflop per processor. This means that the Google supercomputer has about 189 teraflops of power on the low end of my estimates, 253 teraflops on the middle end, and 316 teraflops on the high end. This would easily put it on top of the list of fastest computers in the world."

http://www.addict3d.org/index.php?page=viewarticle &type=news&ID=1893

You can see the layout here, if this thing is real that is.. the layout
and the same picture

I believe SpoofStick is or was an advantage over just showing the address bar because of several spoofs and exploits with address bar address manipulation, basically, there are several methods to get different addresses to appear in the address bar. I believe most of those issues have been fixed in IE and FF though. An example exploit is detailed here and here, Google can reference many more. Another phishing attempt it can prevent is the popup that has its own real looking address bar, basically a mimic page that looks like a real IE or FF screen but the address bar is fake, of course with forcing your address bar to show, you would see two of them which should clue you in to a problem.

I believe there is an Apache exploit involving a realloc() function. addict3d article

I'd think anyone planning crimes on IRC would be a complete moron

Wow very few remote exploits
Well I feel much better now. Unix might have less high profile automated attacks against it, but don't kid yourself into thinking its any safer on the Internet then anything else.

Its not like I really had to look hard either, it took longer to write the little HTML in this post. Results 1 - 10 of about 150,000 for remote linux root exploits. (0.30 seconds)

Wow very few remote exploits
Well I feel much better now. Unix might have less high profile automated attacks against it, but don't kid yourself into thinking its any safer on the Internet then anything else.

Its not like I really had to look hard either, it took longer to write the little HTML in this post. Results 1 - 10 of about 150,000 for remote linux root exploits. (0.30 seconds)

What's also interesting is that MSN search might be using search results from Google! Link here and here.