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Police Can Search Cell Phones Without Warrants 438

Posted by Soulskill from the just-like-opening-a-wallet dept.
Hugh Pickens writes "The California Supreme Court has ruled 5 to 2 to allow police to search arrestees' cell phones without a warrant, saying defendants lose their privacy rights for any items they're carrying when taken into custody. Under US Supreme Court precedents, 'this loss of privacy allows police not only to seize anything of importance they find on the arrestee's body... but also to open and examine what they find,' the state court said. The dissenting justices said those rulings shouldn't be extended to modern cell phones that can store huge amounts of data and that the decision allows police 'to rummage at leisure through the wealth of personal and business information that can be carried on a mobile phone or handheld computer merely because the device was taken from an arrestee's person.' Interestingly enough, the Ohio Supreme Court reached an opposite conclusion in a December 2009 ruling that police had violated drug defendants' rights by searching their cell phones after their arrests. The Ohio-California split could prompt the US Supreme Court to take up the issue, says California Deputy Attorney General Victoria Wilson, who represented the prosecution in the case."
The Almighty Buck

Apple Passes $300B Market Cap, 2nd In the World 485

Posted by Soulskill from the let's-call-it-the-ibubble dept.
An anonymous reader writes "In May, Apple surpassed Microsoft in market capitalization to become the second largest company (by that measure) in the world. Today, with its shares riding high, Apple passed $300 billion in market cap, entering a club of two along with the still-gigantic ExxonMobile. And investors' targets could bring Apple beyond where Exxon is now (though Exxon continues to soar as well). Perhaps Wall Street is catching on that, despite the discontinuation of their underused Xserve, Apple is in fact becoming one of the key tech providers to enterprise, a position that even a year ago seemed laughable. If you consider the iPad to be a PC (which enterprise increasingly is), then suddenly you realize that Apple is expected to climb to 12% market share in 2011. Plus, of course, they have those little things called iPods, and iTunes..."

Comment Re:I would like to help, but why kid myself (Score 1) 536

by Ryokos_boytoy (#32932390) Attached to: US Gov't Orders 73,000 Private Websites Offline

Those days are gone. The people are completely stripped of power. We are all slaves, every last one of us. There is nothing the "powers that be" wouldn't do to maintain their power. And I mean nothing. They would burn every baby on the planet if they could make another 1/2% on their money. Hope, faith and optimism are for children and fools.

But you know what, don't listen to me. Go out and work towards a better world. I hope you succeed were every single human before you has failed.
It's funny. Laugh.

Diebold Leaks 2008 Election Results 196

Posted by samzenpus from the vote-early-vote-often dept.
samzenpus writes "With all the scrutiny that Diebold has received in past few years you'd think that they would be more careful but apparently due to a malfunction in some machines, they have leaked the results to the 2008 presidential race early. Hopefully this will be the nail in Diebold's coffin. Surely we have another company in this country that can run a sham election better."
Software

Submission + - OSI to crack down on "open source" abusers (businessreviewonline.com)

Submitted by munchola
munchola writes: According to CBRonline the Open Source Initiative is going to "open a can of whup ass on any vendors that claim to be open source despite not actually using a license approved by the OSI". In a blog post OSI president Michael Tiemann wrote: "Enough is enough. Open Source has grown up. Now it is time for us to stand up. I believe that when we do, the vendors who ignore our norms will suddenly recognize that they really do need to make a choice: to label their software correctly and honestly, or to license it with an OSI-approved license that matches their open source label."
Linux Business

Submission + - Venezula to produce its own Linux PCs (digitaltippingpoint.com)

Submitted by
christian.einfeldt
christian.einfeldt writes: "The Venezuelan Government announced the roll-out of four different models of Linux-powered consumer computers, consisting of three desktop models and one notebook model. Brand-named "Bolivarian Computers", these computers will be will be produced by a joint venture of a Chinese company named Lang Chao and the Venezuelan Ministry of Light Industry and Commerce. The goal of the project is to jump start a domestic IT industry and become an IT exporter. According to Chris Carlson of Venezuelanalysis.com,

'Until now Venezuela has always imported computers both from well-known brands and generic brands from the developed world. With this new venture the Venezuelan government hopes to diversify national production, integrate national productive chains, and work towards technological independence for the country.'
The computers will first be assembled in Venezula out of Chinese-built parts, but the joint venture plans on substituting domestic-made parts by the end of the year."
Wireless Networking

Submission + - Wi-Fi Hack Aids Boarding Parties

Submitted by Kage-Yojimbo
Kage-Yojimbo writes: The U.S. Navy has adapted civilian wi-fi (wireless networks) for use at sea during boarding operations. By modifying off-the-shelf wi-fi gear, the navy increased the range to over 700 meters. The main reason for all this was to speed up the transmission of passport photos and other personal data back to the ship, so that it could be run through databases to check for terrorists or criminals. This wi-fi hack cut several hours off the time required to check documents. The Expanded Maritime Interception Operations (EIMO) wireless system was developed last year, to provide several kilometers of range to the original wi-fi gear (which has been in use for over three years). Each pair of wi-fi units costs about $1400 to construct, using common parts to add more powerful antennae to standard 802.11g wi-fi equipment.

http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htiw/articles/200 70525.aspx
The Matrix

Submission + - eMail is bankrupt

Submitted by
Gary W. Longsine
Gary W. Longsine writes: "The Washington Post writes about a Venture Capitalist and blogger, Fred Wilson, who recently declared e-mail bankruptcy, wiping out his inbox and starting over because he couldn't keep up. Spam is cited as one reason. It seems that too much spam is not the only problem that Mr. Wilson has with email. Another curious tidbit mentioned in the article is that Donald E. Knuth gave up email on January 1, 1990 after using it since 1975. Is eMail dead?"
Security

Submission + - WordPress Bloggers in for a shock

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BlogSecurity
BlogSecurity writes: "David Kierznowski, a security analyst shocked bloggers yesterday with a survey showing that 49 out of the 50 blogs he checked may be running exploitable versions of the famous WordPress software.

"The main concern here, is the lack of security awareness amongst bloggers with a non-technical background, and even those with a technical background," Mr Kierznowski said.

Mr Kierznowski also uncovered recent vulnerabilities in WordPress plugins that ship by default with the software. He added: "WordPress users developing plugins must be aware of the security functions that WordPress supports, and ensure that these functions are used in their code."

The following statement was taken from WordPress: "[WordPress Versions that] are safe to use... [include] 2.0 or 2.1 series, which are both actively maintained."

Users not using the latest versions of the software may be putting their blogs at risk.

References "
Networking

Submission + - Cisco routers to blame for huge Japan net outtage

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Cisco routers were the source of a major outage May 15 in an NTT network in Japan, according to an investment firm bulletin. Between 2,000 and 4,000 Cisco routers went down for about 7 hours in the NTT East network after a switchover to backup routes triggered the routers to rewrite routing tables, according to a bulletin from CIBC World Markets. The outage disconnected millions of broadband Internet users across most of eastern Japan. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/051607-cisco -routers-major-outage-japan.html
United States

Submission + - State bans texting while driving

Submitted by
netbuzz
netbuzz writes: "The state of Washington yesterday became the first in the nation to ban text-messaging while driving. The law could use sharper teeth, but it's a natural and necessary progression of the movement to clamp down on those who find the need to constantly communicate more important than the safety of their fellow travelers.

http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/1508 8"
Google

Submission + - YouTube to be sued by English Premier League

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The BBC is reporting that the English Premier Football League, with high profile content worth $5.5bn over the next 3 years, has launched a lawsuit against YouTube and its owner Google claiming unspecified damages. This will be the second major attack on the site since Google's purchase, who are already defending a $1bn suit lodged by Viacom. Are the floodgates now gradually starting to open and how many well funded organisations with extremely powerful legal teams can Google hope to successfully defend against before being forced to settle?

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