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  1. Re:so a typo is now unlawful access? on Security Researcher Threatened With Vulnerability Repair Bill · · Score: 1

    Australia had such weak computer security laws in the past that they had to make any attempt i.e. URL rewrite equal to more creative attempts.
    Add in the reality that Australian lawyers are well trained, the old trespass like laws did not really hold up well in court.
    So federal law is now very clear- don't play with other peoples computer, data, url ect.

  2. Stanford Research Institute on Apple's Siri As Revolutionary As the Mac? · · Score: 1

    Its a bit of Apples mid 1980's Knowledge Navigator, DARPA "Perceptive Assistant that Learns" and Stanford's CALO Cognitive Agent that Learns and Organizes for todays young people.
    Wired talked about a Mac related "digital communications" vision in 1994 http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.04/general.magic.html
    Some related details, vids at http://cryptogon.com/?p=25289

  3. Re:When photography is outlawed.... on Illegal To Take a Photo In a Shopping Center? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Re UK: "London Street Photography Festival" - fun to see how many thought public property was also mall like :)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJH9F7Hcluo

  4. Re:HP Didn't Spin Off Its Soul on Why HP Should Sell Its PC Business To Save It · · Score: 1
  5. The 9/11 WTC hard drives on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Destroy Hard Drives? · · Score: 0

    A news clip of the data recovery show what can be done with cash, time and skills.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2R3QgmWstJA
    1:18 mins in shows what arrived, gets cleaned and data thought/hoped lost is been recovered.

  6. Re:Yeah right... on Man Charged in Model Airplane Plot To Bomb Pentagon · · Score: 1

    re number of agents?
    .. "paid as much as $100,000 per case, many of them tasked with infiltrating"
    Its the use of outside people who can blend in just fine.
    So you don't need a massive numbers of "descended" agents, just cash and a steady flow of intel from people who will do the work - to save themselves or earn or both.

  7. Re:Yeah right... on Man Charged in Model Airplane Plot To Bomb Pentagon · · Score: 2

    AC, read this http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/08/fbi-terrorist-informants
    Its the old skill set of "preemption," "prevention," and "disruption"
    A massive informant network (rakers) spots "a" lone wolf and an undercover operative is sent in to see what can be done.
    http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/foreign-affairs-defense/ap-documents-expansion-of-nypd-into-domestic-cia/
    The operative will propose a plot, provide explosives and then solve the crime :)

  8. Re:By this logic on Developer Seeks FDA Approval For Therapeutic Game · · Score: 1

    http://www.mail-archive.com/cybershooters@compuserve.com/msg03372.html
    Back in 2001 the US was thinking about it: "... will find repeated exposure to violent entertainment during early childhood causes more aggressive behavior throughout a child's life, according to a draft of the report obtained by The Times."

  9. Re:But... on New Mac OS X Trojan Hides Inside PDFs · · Score: 1

    Add in some http://cs.nyu.edu/trackmenot/ to your browser too.
    As for this, http://blog.intego.com/2011/09/23/mac-pdf-trojan-horse-surfaces-threat-is-low/
    A Mac security company notes: 'threat to be very low, as this is not found in the wild."

  10. Re:Not a huge surprise on Power Demand From US Homes Expected To Fall For a Decade · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You can use a little power as you like, the network costs will get you.

  11. Re:Theldala gonna to be gettin' PAID! on TSA Groper Files Suit Against Blogger · · Score: 2

    to the AC, http://gizmodo.com/5690749/these-are-the-first-100-leaked-body-scans
    "One Hundred Naked Citizens: One Hundred Leaked Body Scans" "U.S. Marshals in a Florida Federal courthouse saved 35,000 images on their scanner." So yes in the past "Whatever the stated policy, it's clear that it is trivial for operators to save images"

  12. Re:DHS Official ... For Security? on Sony Hires Former Homeland Security Infrastructure Protection Chief · · Score: 1

    and the prized Rolodex for solving legal matters outside US jurisdiction.

  13. Re:Oh c'mon, why the outcry? on Microsoft Training May Have Helped Tunisian Regime To Spy On Citizens · · Score: 1

    Depends how you count:
    Konrad Zuse - Z1 program-controlled computer ~ 1936. His Z3 was the world's first fully functional programmable computer ~ 1941.
    http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Zuse.html
    and by "computer" people point to the IBM's Hollerith punch card technology.
    http://www.ibmandtheholocaust.com/

  14. Re:Oh c'mon, why the outcry? on Microsoft Training May Have Helped Tunisian Regime To Spy On Citizens · · Score: 1

    Most do it as a shell game, using cut outs and having all paper work moved around as needed.
    If anyone finds a person or tech, its emptied out, sold, lost in a take over ...
    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-22/torture-in-bahrain-becomes-routine-with-help-from-nokia-siemens-networking.html
    e.g. "says he can’t comment because all documentation from the intelligence solutions unit had been transferred"
    The big brand then only likes "ethical businesses"

  15. Re:Very young people and astronomy on 18-Year-Old Student Discovers Comet Break-Up · · Score: 1

    So the science version of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_white_woman_syndrome ?
    A doing science syndrome to get a mini "Sputnik" bump in funding or just a slow news day?

  16. Re:lucky person gets lucky on 18-Year-Old Student Discovers Comet Break-Up · · Score: 1

    What are the rest of the UK's top 'space' science people doing if they have "work experience" people using telescopes?
    Many PhDs, researchers, grads are produced per year and a limited count of fully funded "telescopes" - usually in demand and something coveted.

  17. Re:wasn't aware of that term on Lenovo Claims Samsung Galaxy Tab Sold Just 20,000 · · Score: 1

    http://www.zerohedge.com/article/channel-stuffing-gm
    i.e. how to sell hundreds of thousands of cars :)

  18. Re:Summary misses the point. on Toshiba Adds Two-Way Wi-Fi To SD Card · · Score: 3, Interesting

    http://dpreview.com/news/1109/11090205toshibawificard.asp
    Its a first as in "fully comply with the SD standard" i.e. no drivers needed for a unique very small subset of units.
    For law enforcement and rent a spooks (or ex special forces) it means your very public photography/movie clip is safe from a software or "hard"ware deleting.
    From a Guardian story having its images removed ... http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/14/bilderberg-charlie-skelton-dispatch
    "One of the policewomen smiled. "Delete photos and you can go, no trouble.""
    The "London Street Photography Festival" shows some sides of image/movie making in public places http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJH9F7Hcluo or
    the parts of the world where police know to look around and 'remove' all cards/devices after a beating/death.

  19. Re:New Age on Swiss Researchers Try to Make it Rain With Lasers · · Score: 1

    The trails cold, the tech seems to have been sold and may have been bought out a few times.
    Someone has a nice tight budget, lots of electrical power, toys and land.

  20. Re:New Age on Swiss Researchers Try to Make it Rain With Lasers · · Score: 2
  21. Re:Flood the Sahara on Swiss Researchers Try to Make it Rain With Lasers · · Score: 1
  22. Re:New scanning device for people going on airplan on Generating Text From Functional Brain Images · · Score: 1

    Think back to Steve Bierfeldt of Campaign for Liberty and his been found with "cash" should give you some idea.
    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3394970594491846292
    Add in some "magnetic resonance" medical treatment at the airport before the "diesel therapy" van takes you down town for a long chat with the feds?

  23. Two 1 h GoogleTechTalks on Xbox 360 Reset Hack Yields Unsigned Code Execution · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Deconstructing The Xbox Security System
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NqLljaHc80
    Xbox 360 Security System and its Weaknesses
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxjpmc8ZIxM

  24. Re:Why? on Cybercrime Treaty Pushes Surveillance Worldwide · · Score: 1

    The political parties get the "we are doing something bounce"
    Ex spooks and their supporters get to flood the federal bureaucracy with security cleared offers of best new logging and tracking systems.
    A tax payers funded dream for the insiders and their political supporters. Fresh cash and only a select few can bid for it :)
    People who get the funding recall the parties and individuals who helped them, later in life, very nice jobs open up.
    Astroturfing is used where needed or real small time one issue pressure groups are found and groomed.

  25. Treaty Now! on Cybercrime Treaty Pushes Surveillance Worldwide · · Score: 1

    Australians may recall the "Treaty" song :)
    Well I heard it on the internet
    And I saw it on slashdot
    Back in 2011
    All those posting privacy advocates
    Words are easy, words are cheap
    Much cheaper than our priceless profits
    But your indivisible rights can disappear
    Just like bloggers in the night

    Treaty Yeah
    Treaty Yeah Treaty Now

    This net was never given up
    This net was never yours
    The planting of the flag with 12 stars
    Never changed our view at all

    Now multiple legal systems have run their course
    Separated for so long
    I'm dreaming of a red letter day
    When the patent laws will be one