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Submission + - U.S. District Judge: Forced Decryption of Hard Drives Violates Fifth Amendment (cnet.com)

Submitted by hansamurai on Tuesday June 04, 2013 @08:40PM

hansamurai writes: U.S. District Judge Rudolph Randa lifts threat of contempt of court against suspected child pornographer who has 80% of his 20 terabytes of data encrypted after his defense invoked his Fifth Amendment rights that protect him from self-incrimination. His attorney: "I will move heaven and earth to make sure that the war on the infinitesimal amount of child pornography that recirculates on the Internet does not eradicate the Fifth Amendment the way the war on drugs has eviscerated the Fourth Amendment."

The FBI field office in Milwaukee has spent 10 weeks attempting to decrypt the hard drives without success, but have evidence that the suspect used a peer-to-peer file sharing service to exchange files with filenames "suggestive" of child pornography.

The suspect originally had until the end of the day today to decrypt his hard drives.

Submission + - Steve Jobs recommends Android for fans of porn (wired.com)

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hansamurai

on Wednesday April 21, 2010 @09:24AM

hansamurai writes: "After being asked about the App Store's recent ban on "sexy apps," Steve Jobs responded, "We do believe we have a moral responsibility to keep porn off the iPhone. Folks who want porn can buy an Android phone. You know, there's a porn store for Android, you can download nothing but porn. You can download porn, your kids can download porn. That's a place we don't want to go, so we're not going to go there." Apps such as Playboy's and the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition are still available on the App Store, however, as they come from "more reputable companies.""

Submission + - Disgruntled ex-employee remotely disables 100 cars (wired.com) 2

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hansamurai

on Wednesday March 17, 2010 @05:08PM

hansamurai writes: "Over one hundred cars equipped with a Webtech Plus blackbox were remotely disabled when a former employee of dealership Texas Auto Center got hold of his employer's database of users. Webtech Plus is repossession software that allows the dealership to disable a car's ignition or trigger the horn to honk when a payment is due. Owners had to remove the battery to stop the incessant honking. After the dealership began fielding an unusually high number of calls from upset car owners, they changed the passwords to the Webtech Plus software and then traced the IP address used to access the client to its former employee."

Submission + - Left 4 Dead 2 Announced at E3 with Trailer (kotaku.com)

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hansamurai

on Monday June 01, 2009 @03:39PM

hansamurai writes: "Left 4 Dead 2 has been announced at E3 by Microsoft and a trailer for the game has surfaced. The game will be released November 17, 2009, just a year after the first. Gameplay changes include a new focus on melee weapons, especially the iconic anti-zombie weapon, the chainsaw. The cast of characters is brand new but appears to take place during the same zombie outbreak."

Submission + - Wolverine film leaked a month before release (bbc.co.uk)

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hansamurai

on Thursday April 02, 2009 @09:13AM

hansamurai writes: "The FBI are investigating the leak of an almost finished copy of X-Men Origins: Wolverine a month before the film's cinema release. The movie was reported to have been downloaded several 100,000 times and has since been "removed." Viewers have called the movie incomplete, missing some special effects and music. Fox and the MPAA are still upset though, but say the copy is forensically marked and can be traced to the leak. The film is due out May 1st in the United States, and the leaked copy is marked March 2nd."

Submission + - PS3 Folding@Home Begins with Impressive Numbers

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hansamurai

on Friday March 23, 2007 @02:21PM

hansamurai writes: "The PS3 Folding@Home client has been released and some early results are in. The total number of teraflops generated by the PS3 has already exceeded all other OS contributions combined and the entire project is heading towards one petaflop of distributed computing power. Stanford notes that their teraflops calculation is conservatively calculated so the total power could be under-appreciated. With the PS3 European release complete and the Folding client already available to them, the number of users will continue to grow for the time being, let's hope that the project does not run out of work units to pass out. Kotaku has some numbers that are a few hours old since the Stanford server is getting hit pretty hard with the renewed interest in the project."

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