In a scary turn of events an appeals court in Minnesota has ruled that having PGP installed on your computer can be used as evidence against you: A Minnesota appeals court has ruled that the presence of encryption software on a computer may be viewed as evidence of criminal intent. Ari David Levie, who was [...]
Entries from May 25th, 2005
Lycos Germany To Throw Away IP Data
May 21st, 2005 · No Comments · Internet, Privacy
In what’s a great victory for privacy, Lycos Germany had decided to stop logging IP data: Lycos DSL in Germany says it will no longer store dynamic IP addresses of its customers, now that a specialist on data privacy laws from Frankfurt University has threatened to sue the company. Jonas Breyer had asked Lycos what [...]
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OpenBSD 3.7 Released
May 20th, 2005 · No Comments · OpenBSD
Yes yes. Everyones favourite secure operating system has had a new release. There are oodles of new features, including tons of new and improved wireless drivers, new ports for the Sharp Zaurus and SGI, improvements to OpenSSH, OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD, CARP, PF, a new OSPF daemon, new functionality for the already-excellent ports & packages system, and [...]
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Revenge Of The Sith Released On Internet
May 20th, 2005 · No Comments · Movies, Warez
CNN is reporting that Star Wars: Revenge Of The Sith has been (illegally) released on the internet. Of course, this was bound to happen: “Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith” has been leaked onto a major file-sharing network just hours after opening in theaters, at a time when Hollywood is increasingly concerned [...]
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Google Launches Personalized Homepage
May 20th, 2005 · No Comments · Google
Google’s been quite busy these pas few days. After Google Video and Google Web Accelerator, their newest service is Google Personalized Homepage. With this you can personalize your google page with news, stock tickers, the weather etc. RSS Support is soon coming. Once again for Google, this is nicely done. Notice that you can drag [...]
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AMD Anthlon 64 Overclocking Guide
May 20th, 2005 · No Comments · Hardware
Madshrimps has written a comprehensive tutorial on how to overclock your AMD Athlon 64: I remember about 2-3 years ago when talk of the Athlon64 was rampant around various hardware and overclocking forums. The Athlon64 or Clawhammer was creating quite a buzz. Leaked benchmarks showed an 800 MHz Clawhammer outperforming a 1.6 GHz Pentium4 in [...]
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Firefox 1.0.4 Released
May 12th, 2005 · No Comments · Firefox & Thunderbird, News, Security
A new release of firefox, consisting of security fixes: MFSA 2005-44 Privilege escalation via non-DOM property overrides MFSA 2005-43 “Wrapped” javascript: urls bypass security checks MFSA 2005-42 Code execution via javascript: IconURL Get it or get 0wned!
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Pacman 25 Years Old Today
May 12th, 2005 · No Comments · Cool Geeky Stuff, Video Games
CNN has an article on Pacman’s 25th birthday: NEW YORK (CNN/Money) – It’s easy to see “Halo 2″ fans lined up for several blocks in the hours before the game is released and think the industry has never been hotter; but if you want to see what a true phenomenon looks like, jump into your [...]
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Scientific Papers Want To Be Free
May 12th, 2005 · No Comments · Freedom & Democracy, Math & Science
In an unexpected bout of common sense, dutch academics have agreed to release all their papers directly, thereby surpassing the normal (and expensive scientific journals): Scientists from all major Dutch universities officially launched a website on Tuesday where all their research material can be accessed for free. Interested parties can get hold of a total [...]
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Indian Company Releases Computer For The Poor
May 11th, 2005 · No Comments · Business, Computers In General, Hardware
The Hindu reports that a new company is about to sell a computer that’s very affordable. And to top it off, the thing runs Linux Excerpt: NEW DELHI: A computer, a mobile one, for Rs.10,000? A Bangalore-based company on Tuesday announced the development of such a system under a project sponsored by the Council of [...]
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