http://it.slashdot.org/ News for nerds, stuff that matters en-us Copyright 1997-2012, Geeknet, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 2012-02-11T13:44:23+00:00 Geeknet, Inc. help@slashdot.org Technology 1970-01-01T00:00+00:00 1 hourly http://a.fsdn.com/sd/topics/topicslashdot.gif http://it.slashdot.org/ http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~3/T7LCn-3-1sw/fcc-maps-the-3g-wasteland-of-the-western-us alphadogg writes "The Federal Communications Commission has released a map showing which counties across the U.S. lacked coverage from either 3G or 4G networks and found that wide swaths of the western half of the country were 3G wastelands, particularly in mountainous states such as Idaho and Nevada. This isn't particularly surprising since it's much more difficult for carriers to afford building out mobile data networks in sparsely populated mountainous regions, but it does underscore how large stretches of the United States lack access to mobile data services that people in the Northeast, South and Midwest now take for granted."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=FCC+Maps+the+3G+Wasteland+Of+the+Western+US%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2Fx6wNg4"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmobile.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F10%2F2154225%2Ffcc-maps-the-3g-wasteland-of-the-western-us%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/12/02/10/2154225/fcc-maps-the-3g-wasteland-of-the-western-us?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/12/02/10/2154225/fcc-maps-the-3g-wasteland-of-the-western-us?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Y20xuBHZlSuMQRB6fulBcyjBV1U/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Y20xuBHZlSuMQRB6fulBcyjBV1U/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Y20xuBHZlSuMQRB6fulBcyjBV1U/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Y20xuBHZlSuMQRB6fulBcyjBV1U/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~4/T7LCn-3-1sw" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2012-02-10T22:41:00+00:00 wireless desires-infinite-resources-scarce mobile 153 153,151,118,100,33,20,11 http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/12/02/10/2154225/fcc-maps-the-3g-wasteland-of-the-western-us?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~3/tcLC2sKNBvA/tor-tests-undetectably-encrypted-connections-in-iran Sparrowvsrevolution writes "Ahead of the anniversary of Iran's revolution, the country's government has locked down its already-censored Internet, blocking access to many services and in some cases cutting off all encrypted traffic on the Web of the kind used by secure email, social networking and banking sites. In response, the information-freedom-focused Tor Project is testing a new tool it's calling 'obfsproxy,' or obfuscated proxy, which aims to make SSL or TLS traffic appear to be unencrypted traffic like HTTP or instant messaging data. While the tool currently only disguises SSL as the SOCKS protocol, in future versions it will aim to disguise encrypted traffic as any protocol the user chooses. Tor executive director Andrew Lewman says the idea is to 'make your Ferrari look like a Toyota by putting an actual Toyota shell over the Ferrari.'" Reader bonch adds: "A thread on Hacker News provides first-hand accounts as well as workarounds."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Tor+Tests+Undetectably+Encrypted+Connections+In+Iran%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FzzAZQd"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fyro.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F10%2F1838207%2Ftor-tests-undetectably-encrypted-connections-in-iran%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/02/10/1838207/tor-tests-undetectably-encrypted-connections-in-iran?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/02/10/1838207/tor-tests-undetectably-encrypted-connections-in-iran?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/tkdsEwNxHD7Mh7rcdkSXHka5aK0/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/tkdsEwNxHD7Mh7rcdkSXHka5aK0/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/tkdsEwNxHD7Mh7rcdkSXHka5aK0/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/tkdsEwNxHD7Mh7rcdkSXHka5aK0/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~4/tcLC2sKNBvA" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2012-02-10T18:56:00+00:00 censorship great-song-from-flock-of-seagulls yro 139 139,135,101,83,29,16,14 http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/02/10/1838207/tor-tests-undetectably-encrypted-connections-in-iran?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~3/3AxWzXF1Kus/after-rewrites-google-wallet-still-has-holes itwbennett writes "A report from viaForensics makes clear that, despite efforts by Google to tighten up security after a poor evaluation in December, Google Wallet still stores data in too many places and could make it available too easily to be a secure way to make purchases using smartphones."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=After+Rewrites%2C+Google+Wallet+Still+Has+Holes%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FABFkOW"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftech.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F10%2F1650246%2Fafter-rewrites-google-wallet-still-has-holes%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/02/10/1650246/after-rewrites-google-wallet-still-has-holes?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/02/10/1650246/after-rewrites-google-wallet-still-has-holes?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/hFOqnaS-RZOaX82zRfRr4T4puTA/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/hFOqnaS-RZOaX82zRfRr4T4puTA/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/hFOqnaS-RZOaX82zRfRr4T4puTA/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/hFOqnaS-RZOaX82zRfRr4T4puTA/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~4/3AxWzXF1Kus" height="1" width="1"/> samzenpus 2012-02-10T17:33:00+00:00 google leaking-like-a-sieve technology 77 77,71,50,41,13,5,3 http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/02/10/1650246/after-rewrites-google-wallet-still-has-holes?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~3/DqvLNtkfHUo/google-offering-cash-for-your-cache pigrabbitbear writes "The gradual transformation of the web into an ultra-personalized, corporate-owned social space in the cloud has raised more than a few legitimate concerns about data privacy. Google, for obvious reasons, has always been one of the top cheerleaders for this metamorphosis. Touting a fresh new privacy policy that allows data about you from all of their services to coalesce, they've recently been particularly bullish about rendering that increasingly realistic digital portrait of you that lies stuffed away in their servers. It has led us again to question: How much are we comfortable with our machines knowing about us? How much is our privacy really worth? With their new program, Google is now asking those questions quite directly, and preceding them with dollar signs. Are we all on the verge of making our own information age Faustian bargains?"<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Google+Offering+Cash+For+Your+Cache%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FAvNGej"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftech.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F10%2F0147212%2Fgoogle-offering-cash-for-your-cache%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/02/10/0147212/google-offering-cash-for-your-cache?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/02/10/0147212/google-offering-cash-for-your-cache?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Kzxj1Xxacgy-BFwQ19mSuIRfUN4/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Kzxj1Xxacgy-BFwQ19mSuIRfUN4/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Kzxj1Xxacgy-BFwQ19mSuIRfUN4/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Kzxj1Xxacgy-BFwQ19mSuIRfUN4/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~4/DqvLNtkfHUo" height="1" width="1"/> samzenpus 2012-02-10T05:55:00+00:00 google have-a-couple-bucks technology 148 148,145,112,86,28,22,16 http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/02/10/0147212/google-offering-cash-for-your-cache?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~3/eGPZTrAHOlQ/hacked-syrian-officials-used-12345-as-email-password Nominei writes "The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reports that the Syrian President, aides and staffers had their email hacked by Anonymous, who leaked hundreds of emails online. Reportedly, many of the accounts used the password '12345' (which their IT department probably warned them to change when the accounts got set up, of course)."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Hacked+Syrian+Officials+Used+'12345'+As+Email+Password%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FyKj25n"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fidle.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F10%2F0018220%2Fhacked-syrian-officials-used-12345-as-email-password%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://idle.slashdot.org/story/12/02/10/0018220/hacked-syrian-officials-used-12345-as-email-password?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://idle.slashdot.org/story/12/02/10/0018220/hacked-syrian-officials-used-12345-as-email-password?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/PuDnjIw_-BaRO79yh5weUokiHzk/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/PuDnjIw_-BaRO79yh5weUokiHzk/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/PuDnjIw_-BaRO79yh5weUokiHzk/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/PuDnjIw_-BaRO79yh5weUokiHzk/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~4/eGPZTrAHOlQ" height="1" width="1"/> samzenpus 2012-02-10T03:25:00+00:00 government I've-got-the-same-combination-on-my-luggage idle 230 230,221,175,137,52,38,25 http://idle.slashdot.org/story/12/02/10/0018220/hacked-syrian-officials-used-12345-as-email-password?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~3/jcJ5mm7qNK0/the-gradual-death-of-the-brick-and-mortar-tech-store Cutting_Crew writes "As we all know brick and mortar stores have been closing left and right recently. We had CompUSA, Borders and Circuit City all close their doors within the last 4 years. According to an article on Forbes.com, it is spelled out pretty clearly why Best Buy is next in line to shut its doors for good. Some of the reasons highlighted include a 40% drop is Best Buy stock in 2011, lack of vision regarding their online services, management too concerned with store sales instead of margins and blatant disregard for quality customer service."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=The+Gradual+Death+of+the+Brick+and+Mortar+Tech+Store%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FwdPByT"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fit.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F09%2F2320247%2Fthe-gradual-death-of-the-brick-and-mortar-tech-store%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://it.slashdot.org/story/12/02/09/2320247/the-gradual-death-of-the-brick-and-mortar-tech-store?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/story/12/02/09/2320247/the-gradual-death-of-the-brick-and-mortar-tech-store?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/BElHCXIZnLWuBhNb6lWze0esmrU/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/BElHCXIZnLWuBhNb6lWze0esmrU/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/BElHCXIZnLWuBhNb6lWze0esmrU/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/BElHCXIZnLWuBhNb6lWze0esmrU/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~4/jcJ5mm7qNK0" height="1" width="1"/> samzenpus 2012-02-10T00:33:00+00:00 business say-hello-to-the-dodo it 460 460,458,367,298,110,61,42 http://it.slashdot.org/story/12/02/09/2320247/the-gradual-death-of-the-brick-and-mortar-tech-store?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~3/0R-SRl7UqO8/sponsor-a-valve-on-colossus mikejuk writes "The UK's National Museum of Computing has come up with a novel idea to raise funds for its new gallery for its rebuilt Colossus computer &mdash; you can sponsor a valve. All you have to do is buy a small area in a picture of Colossus (at &pound;0.1 per pixel &mdash; min &pound;10), upload a picture to occupy the space, set a URL and pay using PayPal."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Sponsor+a+Valve+On+Colossus%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FyVuUWn"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fhardware.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F09%2F1629259%2Fsponsor-a-valve-on-colossus%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/02/09/1629259/sponsor-a-valve-on-colossus?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/02/09/1629259/sponsor-a-valve-on-colossus?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/HxKzX2W-p4cWyDjGcRYOG9khIJQ/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/HxKzX2W-p4cWyDjGcRYOG9khIJQ/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/HxKzX2W-p4cWyDjGcRYOG9khIJQ/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/HxKzX2W-p4cWyDjGcRYOG9khIJQ/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~4/0R-SRl7UqO8" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2012-02-09T17:01:00+00:00 encryption don't-worry-they-have-tubes-too hardware 29 29,27,18,14,7,3,3 http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/02/09/1629259/sponsor-a-valve-on-colossus?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~3/62T7gdUvv2o/pasadena-police-encrypt-deny-access-to-police-radio An anonymous reader writes "There is media (but not public?) outcry over the Pasadena, CA police switch from analog radio that can be picked up by scanners to encrypted digital radio that cannot. 'On Friday, Pasadena police Lt. Phlunte Riddle said the department was unsure whether it could accommodate the media with digital scanners. Riddle said the greatest concern remains officer safety. "People who do bank robberies use scanners, and Radio Shack sells these things cheap," Riddle said. "We just had a robbery today on Hill Avenue and Washington Boulevard," Riddle said. "The last thing I want to do is to have the helicopter or the officers set up on the street and the criminals have a scanner and know where our officers are." Just prior to the switch over, city staffers said they would look into granting access to police radio chatter, most likely by loaning media outlets a scanner capable of picking up the secure signal.'"<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Pasadena+Police+Encrypt%2C+Deny+Access+To+Police+Radio%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FxRm6Vm"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F08%2F0053237%2Fpasadena-police-encrypt-deny-access-to-police-radio%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/02/08/0053237/pasadena-police-encrypt-deny-access-to-police-radio?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/02/08/0053237/pasadena-police-encrypt-deny-access-to-police-radio?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/fpm6gRLZA-4zsCLShOAOMkcFZ6s/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/fpm6gRLZA-4zsCLShOAOMkcFZ6s/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/fpm6gRLZA-4zsCLShOAOMkcFZ6s/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/fpm6gRLZA-4zsCLShOAOMkcFZ6s/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~4/62T7gdUvv2o" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2012-02-08T05:15:00+00:00 encryption can't-broadcast-where-their-combat-UAVs-are news 485 485,483,380,304,93,44,27 http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/02/08/0053237/pasadena-police-encrypt-deny-access-to-police-radio?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~3/miA0Fvfa42g/proposed-law-would-give-dhs-power-over-privately-owned-it-infrastructure CelticWhisper writes "H.R. 3674, the Promoting and Enhancing Cybersecurity and Information Sharing Effectiveness Act (PRECISE Act), would allow the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to require improved security practices from those businesses managing systems whose disruption could prove detrimental to critical life-sustaining or national-security initiatives." As the article points out, this is just "one of 30 or so such bills currently percolating on the Hill."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Proposed+Law+Would+Give+DHS+Power+Over+Privately+Owned+IT+Infrastructure%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FzUuuc6"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fpolitics.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F07%2F1637238%2Fproposed-law-would-give-dhs-power-over-privately-owned-it-infrastructure%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://politics.slashdot.org/story/12/02/07/1637238/proposed-law-would-give-dhs-power-over-privately-owned-it-infrastructure?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://politics.slashdot.org/story/12/02/07/1637238/proposed-law-would-give-dhs-power-over-privately-owned-it-infrastructure?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Q97zUeRTGvePhLH9W_AV_pLfdQ8/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Q97zUeRTGvePhLH9W_AV_pLfdQ8/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Q97zUeRTGvePhLH9W_AV_pLfdQ8/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Q97zUeRTGvePhLH9W_AV_pLfdQ8/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~4/miA0Fvfa42g" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2012-02-07T17:17:00+00:00 business for-great-justice politics 298 298,296,234,206,53,37,21 http://politics.slashdot.org/story/12/02/07/1637238/proposed-law-would-give-dhs-power-over-privately-owned-it-infrastructure?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~3/UKGNT_D_Eog/no-more-ssl-revocation-checking-for-chrome New submitter mwehle writes with this bit from Ars Technica: "Google's Chrome browser will stop relying on a decades-old method for ensuring secure sockets layer certificates are valid after one of the company's top engineers compared it to seat belts that break when they are needed most. The browser will stop querying CRL, or certificate revocation lists, and databases that rely on OCSP, or online certificate status protocol, Google researcher Adam Langley said in a blog post published on Sunday. He said the services, which browsers are supposed to query before trusting a credential for an SSL-protected address, don't make end users safer because Chrome and most other browsers establish the connection even when the services aren't able to ensure a certificate hasn't been tampered with."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=No+More+SSL+Revocation+Checking+For+Chrome%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FxClarp"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftech.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F07%2F159215%2Fno-more-ssl-revocation-checking-for-chrome%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/02/07/159215/no-more-ssl-revocation-checking-for-chrome?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/02/07/159215/no-more-ssl-revocation-checking-for-chrome?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/KchobNLEzVVaLxRWY4P4m59REIE/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/KchobNLEzVVaLxRWY4P4m59REIE/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/KchobNLEzVVaLxRWY4P4m59REIE/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/KchobNLEzVVaLxRWY4P4m59REIE/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~4/UKGNT_D_Eog" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2012-02-07T16:35:00+00:00 chrome substitute-my-own technology 152 152,151,112,101,40,25,16 http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/02/07/159215/no-more-ssl-revocation-checking-for-chrome?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~3/UKTkKqh6CPg/cops-set-up-extortion-sting-on-symantecs-source-code-thieves Sparrowvsrevolution writes "Hackers linked with Anonymous leaked another 1.26 gigabytes of Symantec's data Monday night, what they say is the source code company's PCAnywhere program. More interestingly, also posted a long private email conversation that seems to show a Symantec exec offering the hackers $50,000 to not leak the company's data and to publicly state they had lied about obtaining it. Symantec has responded by revealing that in fact, the $50,000 offer had been a ruse, and the 'Symantec exec' was actually a law enforcement agent trying to trace the hackers. It adds that all the information the hackers have released, including a 2006 version of Norton Internet Security, is outdated and poses no threat to the company or its customers. Symantec says the Anonymous hackers began attempting to extort money from the company in mid-January, and it responded by contacting law enforcement, though it won't comment on the results of the fake payoff sting while the investigation is still ongoing."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Cops+Set+Up+Extortion+Sting+On+Symantec's+Source+Code+Thieves%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2Fx9H9Cy"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fit.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F07%2F149205%2Fcops-set-up-extortion-sting-on-symantecs-source-code-thieves%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://it.slashdot.org/story/12/02/07/149205/cops-set-up-extortion-sting-on-symantecs-source-code-thieves?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/story/12/02/07/149205/cops-set-up-extortion-sting-on-symantecs-source-code-thieves?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/dJ5iqos8rANipkDj6WnLcuXw7AY/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/dJ5iqos8rANipkDj6WnLcuXw7AY/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/dJ5iqos8rANipkDj6WnLcuXw7AY/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/dJ5iqos8rANipkDj6WnLcuXw7AY/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~4/UKTkKqh6CPg" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2012-02-07T15:11:00+00:00 crime don't-worry-now-we're-telling-the-truth it 167 167,163,123,92,47,26,17 http://it.slashdot.org/story/12/02/07/149205/cops-set-up-extortion-sting-on-symantecs-source-code-thieves?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~3/_Db4fQ5sdSY/defendant-ordered-to-decrypt-laptop-claims-she-had-forgotten-password wiedzmin writes "A Colorado woman that was ordered by a federal judge to decrypt her laptop hard-drive for police last month, appears to have forgotten her password. If she does not remember the password by month's end, as ordered, she could be held in contempt and jailed until she complies. It appears that bad memory is now a federal offense." The article clarifies that her lawyer stated she may have forgotten the password; they haven't offered that as a defense in court yet.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Defendant+Ordered+To+Decrypt+Laptop+Claims+She+Had+Forgotten+Password%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2Fz51Aug"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fyro.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F07%2F0327233%2Fdefendant-ordered-to-decrypt-laptop-claims-she-had-forgotten-password%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/02/07/0327233/defendant-ordered-to-decrypt-laptop-claims-she-had-forgotten-password?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/02/07/0327233/defendant-ordered-to-decrypt-laptop-claims-she-had-forgotten-password?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/xWDLCSZaaPAX6gBS8OE53g-SsRA/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/xWDLCSZaaPAX6gBS8OE53g-SsRA/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/xWDLCSZaaPAX6gBS8OE53g-SsRA/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/xWDLCSZaaPAX6gBS8OE53g-SsRA/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~4/_Db4fQ5sdSY" height="1" width="1"/> Unknown Lamer 2012-02-07T08:08:00+00:00 encryption war-on-alzheimer's-patients yro 999 999,993,776,666,148,80,57 http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/02/07/0327233/defendant-ordered-to-decrypt-laptop-claims-she-had-forgotten-password?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~3/Zgw9iqwYiy8/sandboxed-flash-player-coming-to-firefox Trailrunner7 writes "Adobe, which has spent the last few years trying to dig out of a deep hole of vulnerabilities and buggy code, is making a major change to Flash, adding a sandbox to the version of the player that runs in Firefox. The sandbox is designed to prevent many common exploit techniques against Flash. The move by Adobe comes roughly a year after the company added a sandbox to Flash for Google Chrome. Flash, which is perhaps the most widely deployed piece of software on the Internet, has been a common attack vector for several years now, and the attacks in some cases have been used to get around exploit mitigations added by the browser vendors. The sandbox is designed to prevent many of these attacks by not allowing exploits against Flash to break out into the browser itself."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Sandboxed+Flash+Player+Coming+To+Firefox%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FwxKRdT"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F06%2F2147219%2Fsandboxed-flash-player-coming-to-firefox%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/02/06/2147219/sandboxed-flash-player-coming-to-firefox?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/02/06/2147219/sandboxed-flash-player-coming-to-firefox?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/cygI1roFtctJE40u_ZteIm7n5ak/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/cygI1roFtctJE40u_ZteIm7n5ak/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/cygI1roFtctJE40u_ZteIm7n5ak/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/cygI1roFtctJE40u_ZteIm7n5ak/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~4/Zgw9iqwYiy8" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2012-02-06T21:55:00+00:00 mozilla box-in-the-fox news 86 86,82,60,48,24,14,10 http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/02/06/2147219/sandboxed-flash-player-coming-to-firefox?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~3/_-cTuRO7qqQ/moglen-facebook-is-a-man-in-the-middle-attack jfruh writes "In an email exchange with privacy blogger Dan Tynan, Columbia law professor Eben Moglen referred to Facebook as a 'man in the middle attack' &mdash; that is, a service that intercepts communication between two parties and uses it for its own nefarious purposes. He said, 'The point is that by sharing with our actual friends through a web intermediary who can store and mine everything, we harm people by destroying their privacy for them. It's not the sharing that's bad, it's the technological design of giving it all to someone in the middle. That is at once outstandingly stupid and overwhelmingly dangerous.' Tynan is a critic of Facebook, but he thinks Moglen is overstating the case."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Moglen%3A+Facebook+Is+a+Man-In-The-Middle+Attack%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FytkEVE"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fyro.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F06%2F1828231%2Fmoglen-facebook-is-a-man-in-the-middle-attack%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/02/06/1828231/moglen-facebook-is-a-man-in-the-middle-attack?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/02/06/1828231/moglen-facebook-is-a-man-in-the-middle-attack?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/WvA3d1WbVXenDBNs27R4j1a4yyY/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/WvA3d1WbVXenDBNs27R4j1a4yyY/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/WvA3d1WbVXenDBNs27R4j1a4yyY/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/WvA3d1WbVXenDBNs27R4j1a4yyY/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~4/_-cTuRO7qqQ" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2012-02-06T18:42:00+00:00 facebook can-we-blame-alice-and-bob-for-this yro 375 375,373,285,236,71,48,36 http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/02/06/1828231/moglen-facebook-is-a-man-in-the-middle-attack?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~3/qjrJ6_QEGEg/symantec-identifies-android-trojans-that-mutate-with-every-download angry tapir writes "Symantec researchers have identified a new premium-rate SMS Android Trojan that modifies its code every time it gets downloaded in order to bypass antivirus detection. This technique is known as server-side polymorphism and has already existed in the world of desktop malware for many years, but mobile malware creators have only now begun to adopt it."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Symantec+Identifies+Android+Trojans+That+Mutate+With+Every+Download%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FxzZnjm"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fit.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F06%2F0427253%2Fsymantec-identifies-android-trojans-that-mutate-with-every-download%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://it.slashdot.org/story/12/02/06/0427253/symantec-identifies-android-trojans-that-mutate-with-every-download?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/story/12/02/06/0427253/symantec-identifies-android-trojans-that-mutate-with-every-download?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/_RGO82lzIF7W52I_t7gKMsowKAU/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/_RGO82lzIF7W52I_t7gKMsowKAU/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/_RGO82lzIF7W52I_t7gKMsowKAU/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/_RGO82lzIF7W52I_t7gKMsowKAU/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~4/qjrJ6_QEGEg" height="1" width="1"/> samzenpus 2012-02-06T13:04:00+00:00 android learning-at-a-geometric-rate it 97 97,97,80,69,18,12,6 http://it.slashdot.org/story/12/02/06/0427253/symantec-identifies-android-trojans-that-mutate-with-every-download?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Search Slashdot stories query http://it.slashdot.org/search.pl