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Submission + - All your secrets are belong to us (again) (nytimes.com)

sertsa writes: "Earlier this year a group of researchers at the University of Washington came up with a scheme to use peer-to-peer networks to store and ultimately forget the keys for encrypted messages causing them to "Vanish". Now a group from researchers from the University of Michigan has come up with a way to break this approach.

In our experiments with Unvanish, we have shown that it is possible to make Vanish messages reappear long after they should have disappeared nearly 100 percent of the time . . ."

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Submission + - Zombie Attack at Hierakonpolis

sertsa writes: In an article just published by the Archaeological Institute of America Archaeologists are hypothesizing that the formation of ancient Egypt is linked to recurrent Predynastic zombie attacks due to outbreaks of Solanum virus.

From the very beginning of Predynastic research, Sir W.M. Flinders Petrie reported several headless, but seemingly intact, burials during his famous excavations at Naqada in 1895. Further excavations at Gerzeh and other sites revealed more of these curious burials, but no satisfactory explanation could be proposed at the time. More recently, excavations in the non-elite cemetery at Hierakonpolis (HK43), undertaken from 1996 to 2004, have uncovered more of these strange headless burials in addition to 21 individuals whose cervical vertebrae bear cut marks indicative of complete decapitation. The individuals include men and women ranging in age from 16 to 65. The number and the standard position of the cut marks (usually on the second-fourth cervical vertebrae; always from the front) indicate an effort far greater than that needed simply to cause the death of a normal (uninfected) person. The standard position also indicates these are not injuries sustained during normal warfare.

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