Xenographic - Slashdot User

Submission + - Can Your Company Remote Wipe Your Personal Phone? (npr.org)

Submitted by Xenographic on Tuesday November 23, 2010 @04:26PM

Xenographic writes: Over on NPR, there's a story about someone whose personal iPhone got remotely wiped by their employer. It was actually a mistake, but it was something of a surprise because they didn't believe they had given their employer any kind of access to do that. This may already be very familiar to Microsoft Exchange admins, but the problem was her iPhone's integration with MS Exchange automatically gives the server admin access to do remote wipes. All you have to do is configure the phone to receive email from an MS Exchange server and the server admin can wipe your phone at will. The phone isn't bricked, even though absolutely all of its data was wiped, because the data could be restored from backup, assuming that someone remembered to make one. But this also works on other devices like Blackberries, iPads and other smartphones that integrate with MS Exchange, so if you read your work email on your personal phone or tablet, you might want to make sure that you keep backups, just in case.

Submission + - Final Judgment - SCO Loses, Owes $3,506,526 (groklaw.net)

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Xenographic

on Friday November 21, 2008 @03:46AM

Xenographic writes: "SCO has finally lost to Novell, now that Judge Kimball has entered final judgment against SCO. Of course, this is SCO we're talking about. There's still the litigation in bankruptcy court, which allowed this case to resume so that they could figure out just how much SCO owes, which is $3,506,526, if I calculated the interest properly, $625,486.90 of which will go into a constructive trust. And then there's the possibility that SCO could seek to have the judgment overturned in the appeals courts, or even the Supreme Court when that fails. Of course, they need money to do that and they don't really have much of that any more. Remember how Enderle, O'Gara and company told us that SCO was sure to win? I wonder how many people have emailed them to say, 'I told you so.'"

Submission + - IBM Ditches Outsourcing Patent (sutor.com)

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Xenographic

on Friday October 05, 2007 @12:33AM

Xenographic writes: "IBM has dropped their controversial outsourcing patent, both withdrawing the application and placing it into the public domain. Apparently, it was filed eight months before they implemented more stringent reviews of their patent applications so as to avoid filing for obvious patents, especially business method patents. The notice also says that they would like to thank the community (presumably Slashdot) for bringing it to their attention."

Submission + - OSI Asks Microsoft to Change the MS-PL (eweek.com)

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Xenographic

on Friday September 21, 2007 @01:20PM

Xenographic writes: "The OSI has identified two significant flaws in the Microsoft Permissive License, and is unlikely to approve it as an OSI license in its current state. Specifically, the OSI is worried about the way the MS-PL is incompatible with so many other OSI-approved licenses and how misleading that makes the term "permissive" in the license's name. Now the ball is in Microsoft's court and they can choose to amend or withdraw it from consideration."

Submission + - Leaks Prove MediaDefender's Deception (arstechnica.com)

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Who will defend the defenders?

on Monday September 17, 2007 @02:16AM

Who will defend the defenders? writes: "Ars Technica has posted the first installment in their analysis of the leaked MediaDefender emails and found some very interesting things. Apparently, the New York Attorney General's office is working on a big anti-piracy sting and they were working on finding viable targets. It also discusses how some of the emails show MediaDefender trying to spy on their competitors, sanitize their own Wikipedia entry, deal with the hackers targeting their systems, and to quash the MiiVi story even while they were rebuilding it as Viide. Oh yes, they definitely read "techie, geek web sites where everybody already hates us" like Slashdot, too."

Submission + - OOXML Denied INCITS V1 Approval (robweir.com)

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Xenographic

on Monday July 16, 2007 @04:05AM

Xenographic writes: "INCITS V1, the US group responsible for the US vote over whether or not ANSI will grant fast-track approval to Microsoft's OOXML format, failed to reach the 2/3 consensus required to recommend OOXML to ANSI. What makes this vote interesting is the graph in the article, showing all the new Microsoft business partners who joined INCITS just this year to vote for OOXML. They will now deliberate further, until they can come to some agreement on what to recommend to ANSI, but it's pretty clear that Microsoft is pushing OOXML as hard as it can."

Submission + - SCO vs. IBM Leaks Exposed

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Xenographic

on Sunday April 08, 2007 @12:18AM

Xenographic writes: "Remember all the fuss about SCO subpoenaing PJ of Groklaw, where they allege that she's funded by IBM because she once got a publicly available document from a volunteer at the courthouse a little before it hit the Court's website? That's nothing. Groklaw has a story evidence that other materials have been leaked in this case — but they weren't leaked to Groklaw, and they weren't leaked by IBM. Information about the sealed materials in question made its way to Maureen O'Gara, who wrote a story based on inside information, displaying a positively uncanny insight into what SCO was planning, including far more than just the sealed document a SCO lawyer read out loud in open court. Interestingly, several witnesses report that Maureen O'Gara did not even attend that hearing, leaving us to speculate about her source."

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