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EBay Hacker's Conviction Upheld
An anonymous reader writes "The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in the case of Jerome Heckenkamp, the former University of Wisconsin student convicted of federal computer crime charges in 2004 after hacking into Qualcomm, Cygnus Solutions and other companies, and defacing eBay. Heckenkamp was caught after a system administrator at the university hacked into his Linux box to gather evidence that Heckenkamp had been attacking the college mail server. The court ruled today that such counter-hacks are allowable under the 'special needs' exception to the Fourth Amendment, and upheld the warrantless search."
That's nothing compared to how bad my girlfriends pussy smells. I'm thinking of breaking it off with her over it. It's like mouldy trout.
iPhone batteries "die in 40 minutes"
Apple fanboys kill the messenger
By Nick Farrell: Friday 06 April 2007, 07:14
APPLE FANBOYS have really been going for hack John C Dvorak after one of his sources in Cingular told him the iPhone's batteries lasted just 40 minutes.
During Episode 93 of the spodcast this Week in Tech (TWiT)Dvorak said he received information from "a guy at Cingular who's testing the product." The unnamed, male Cingular employee told Dvorak "there's lots of issues" with the iPhone.
Dvorak said that the iPhone was blighted with not having a removable battery, so "you run 20 minutes and you're using up half the battery power. You get 40 minutes total talk time. And the interface fouls up constantly."
The Cingular geezer or geezerette asked Dvorak not to tell anyone. OK it is a "man in the pub told me" style story, but it does not mean that there is no truth behind it. Certainly it is an odd thing to make up.
But the fan boys are up in arms about the comment and every where the story appears on the interweb there is a diatribe from at least three fanboys about how unreliable Dvorak is as a reporter.
One post said that Dvorak had a background in news and was therefore not qualified to write about technical stuff. Others sited a 1991 prediction he made that didn't come true.
One poster said that if Steve Jobs said that 40 minutes on the phone was long enough to speak to someone that must be OK and he would curtail his usage immediately. Another added that if people used their phones longer than 40 minutes there must be something wrong with them.
More here: http://www.twit.tv/93 [www.twit.tv] [www.twit.tv] [www.twit.tv]
Looks to me like they already logged his attacks on there mail server. As far as I'm concerned once you see an attack on your network from the same ip more than twice there fair game
Try to get the spelling right. You need "their" and "they're" respectively. It makes sentences hard to read otherwise, and people immediately lose all respect for your l33t administrator skills if you can't even spell simple words.
In the United Gulags of America.
Criminally yours,
"President" George W. Bush