City Almost Loses 450K to Keylogger

SierraPete writes "The city of Carson, California (a suburb of Los Angeles) was the target of a 6-digit theft of cash. The LA Times reports that information taken from a keylogger was used to attempt to steal $450K from the city's treasury. Quick work by the city froze most of the funds, but it drives home the importance of keeping good anti-spyware and anti-virus software updated on both corporate systems as well as systems being used from home."

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[mpapet]

There are _lots_ of problems with this test.

1. Does anyone know precisely how apple rips their files?
I doubt the itunes encoder is as feature rich as say, ripping from the file manager in kde. In my limited experience ripping, (Which KDE makes child's play) there are numerous options, all of which I'm sure do _something_ to the play back quality, but I don't have a clue what. My point being Apples high bit sample may be extra zeros on a low bid-depth rip.

2. itune player DAC is an unknown.

Do the same test with an open source encoder so a high-bit depth files actually contains more sound bits I can hear. Even then, I doubt if there's a play back device for the above-average computer that could possibly reveal those extra sound bits.

Finally, any joker that thinks the itunes files come off of some gold master is making things up. IME the music industry equates the audio quality as somewhat better than fm radio, so encoding off a CD is all that is necessary. Oh, and it's practically impossible to tell the difference.