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Submission + - Tenth annual AusCERT conference kicks off (zdnet.com.au) 1

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lukehopewell1
lukehopewell1 writes: "The tenth annual AusCERT (Australian Computer Emergency Response Team) conference kicks off today in Queensland, Australia, touting appearances from Microsoft, Telstra, Rio Tinto and founder of Kaspersky Labs, Eugene Kaspersky,

See a video wrap up of AusCERT conferences in the years gone by, complete with laughs, interviews, old-timey newscasts and that time IBM gave out USB drives laden with malware. True story."
Earth

Submission + - Ugly Truth of Space Junk (space.com) 2

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fysdt writes: "Dealing with the decades of detritus from using outer space — human-made orbital debris — is a global concern, but some experts are now questioning the feasibility of the wide range of "solutions" sketched out to grapple with high-speed space litter.

What may be shaping up is an "abandon in place" posture for certain orbital altitudes — an outlook that flags the messy message resulting from countless bits of orbital refuse.

U.S. General William Shelton, commander of Air Force Space Command, underscored the worrisome issue of orbital debris during a presentation at the National Space Symposium on April 12, 2011.

In a recent conference here, Gen. William Shelton, commander of the U.S. Air Force Space Command, relayed his worries about rising amounts of human-made space junk."
Facebook

Submission + - Facebook caught exposing millions of credentials (theregister.co.uk)

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fysdt writes: "Facebook has leaked photographs, profiles and other personal information for millions of its users because of a years-old bug that overrides individual privacy settings, researchers from Symantec said.

The flaw, which the researchers estimate has affected hundreds of thousands of applications, exposed user access tokens to advertisers and others. The tokens serve as a spare set of keys that Facebook apps use to perform certain actions on behalf of the user, such as posting messages to a Facebook wall or sending RSVP replies to invitations. For years, many apps that rely on an older form of user authentication turned over these keys to third parties, giving them the ability to access information users specifically designated as off limits."
Privacy

Submission + - Creepy Stalking App Explained by Author (thinq.co.uk) 1

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An anonymous reader writes: Creepy, a package described as a 'geolocation information aggregator,' is turning heads in privacy circles, but should people be worried? Yiannis Kakavas explains why he developed his scary stalking application.

Creepy is a software package for Linux or Windows — with a Mac OS X port in the works — that aims to gather public information on a targeted individual via social networking services in order to pinpoint their location. It's remarkably efficient at its job, even in its current early form, and certainly lives up to its name when you see it in use for the first time.
Idle

Submission + - Dead People Scientists Keep Messing With (discovermagazine.com)

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An anonymous reader writes: Some historical figures are just too interesting to leave alone, even when they're supposed to be moldering in the grave. That's why medical researchers dug up Tycho Brahe, bombarded Napoleon's hair with neutrons in a nuclear reactor, and did everything they could think of to King Tut. Discover Magazine has 8 stories of delayed diagnoses and extreme postmortems.

Comment Re:I'm Confused (Score 0) 152

by scotty.m (#35076836) Attached to: Egyptians Turn To Tor To Organize Dissent Online
... said John Gilmore
But that doesn't answer the question. Without Internet, Internet censorship is irrelevant. Also, TOR has nothing to do with censorship.
You must've been rolling that quote around for a while, looking for the right moment to throw it in the mix. This wasn't it.

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