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Submission + - Android comes with a kill-switch (theregister.co.uk)

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Aviran

on Thursday October 16, 2008 @08:56AM

Aviran writes: "The search giant is retaining the right to delete applications from Android handsets on a whim.
Unlike Apple, the company has made no attempt to hide its intentions, and includes the details in the Android Market terms and conditions, as spotted by Computer World:
"Google may discover a product that violates the developer distribution agreement ... in such an instance, Google retains the right to remotely remove those applications from your device at its sole discretion.""

Submission + - Joe Biden's pro-RIAA, pro-FBI tech voting record

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Aviran

on Sunday August 24, 2008 @05:59AM

Aviran writes: "By choosing Joe Biden as their vice presidential candidate, the Democrats have selected a politician with a mixed record on technology who has spent most of his Senate career allied with the FBI and copyright holders, who ranks toward the bottom of CNET's Technology Voters' Guide, and whose anti-privacy legislation was actually responsible for the creation of PGP."

Submission + - Scientists closer to invisibility cloak

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Aviran

on Monday August 11, 2008 @01:00AM

Aviran writes: "Scientists say they are a step closer to developing materials that could render people and objects invisible. Researchers have demonstrated for the first time they were able to cloak three-dimensional objects using artificially engineered materials that redirect light around the objects. Previously, they only have been able to cloak very thin two-dimensional objects"

Submission + - Compressed VoIP leaves eavesdropping clues (theregister.co.uk)

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Aviran

on Monday June 23, 2008 @08:03AM

Aviran writes: "Eavesdroppers might be able to gain clues about the content of encrypted conversations even without breaking the cryptography.Boffins from John Hopkins University in Baltimore, USA have found that the relative size of packets in a VoIP conversation might be used to detect whether words or phrases of interest appear in encrypted conversations. The result might yield a transcript even more unintelligible than from comedian Norman Collier's faulty microphone routine — which might still be a useful result. Even though the approach is not sophisticated enough to come anywhere near gaining the actual gist of conversations it is be good enough to pick out chosen phrases within encrypted data. By using machine learning techniques the researchers were able to develop systems that "inferred 'hidden' information from encrypted VoIP traffic streams based on observable patterns in packet size and timing of various protocols"."

Submission + - WGA Reports Back To MS Even If You Choose Cancel

Submitted by Aviran on Wednesday March 07, 2007 @11:54AM

Aviran writes: When you start WGA setup and get to the license agreement page but decided NOT to install the highly controversial WGA component and cancel the installation, the setup program will send information stored in your registry and the fact that you choose not to install WGA back to Microsoft's servers.

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