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Submission + - Stallman on Unity: Canonical will have to hand over users' data to governments (benjaminkerensa.com)

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Giorgio Maone

on Saturday October 13, 2012 @05:30AM

Giorgio Maone writes: "Ubuntu developer and fellow mozillian Benjamin Kerensa chatted with various people about the new Amazon Product Results in the Ubuntu 12.10 Unity Dash. Among them, Richard Stallman told him that this feature is bad because: 1. "If Canonical gets this data, it will be forced to hand it over to various governments."; 2. Amazon is bad. Concerned people can disable remote data retrieval for any lens and scopes or, more surgically, use sudo apt-get remove unity-lens-shopping."

Submission + - Police Seizes Blog over "Kill Berlusconi" Satire (savonaeponente.com) 2

Submitted by Giorgio Maone on Sunday February 13, 2011 @05:21PM

Giorgio Maone writes: Italian Police just seized the Savona e Ponente Blog because the 60 years old journalist Valeria Rossi posted a satiric article titled "I want to kill Berlusconi", writing that "you can't feel guilty of wishing him death, because he's not human: he's an alien, with incredible psychic powers." Otherwise, how could such a clown, with multiple pending trials for corruption, tax offenses, abuse of power and even child prostitution, convince the majority of the other politicians and a consistent slice of Italian people to keep him as their prime minister for almost 20 years now?

Here's a mirror of the incriminating text (Italian).

Submission + - GoogHOle: exploiting GMail, Picasa and 200K sites (hackademix.net)

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Giorgio Maone

on Monday September 24, 2007 @09:15AM

Giorgio Maone writes: "Multiple Google-targeted exploits disclosed in the past 3 days could compromise your GMail account, steal your pictures from Picasa or impersonate you on almost 200,000 big sites which outsourced their search engines (vulnerabilities included in the price). If even Google, a very reactive company when web security matters, does face this kind of problems, how serious is the threat and what can you do, as a "normal" web user, to protect yourself?"

Submission + - United Nations VS SQL Injections (hackademix.net)

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Giorgio Maone

on Sunday August 12, 2007 @11:02AM

Giorgio Maone writes: "The United Nations web site has been defaced by 3 crackers who replaced the speeches of the Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon with their own pacifist message. This article briefly analyzes the exploited vulnerability and the technology used on the server, both quite surprising to find in such a high profile site."

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