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In this issue:
* MS To Build Antivirus Into Win8: Boon Or Monopoly?
* Petition Calls For Making Net Access Inalienable Right
* Bradley Manning's Court Date Finally Set
* How To Get Into an Elite Comp-Sci Program
* Plate Readers Abound in DC Area, With Little Regard For Privacy
* DNA Test To Determine Kids' Sports Futures
* JavaScript JVM Runs Java
* SCADA Hacker: Water District Used 3-Character Password
* Toyota To Let People Ride In Self-Driving Prius
* DARPA Requests Replacement To Antibiotics
* Amazon Denies Reports That Airport Scanners Ruin Kindle's e-Ink
* How Much Tech Can Kids Take?
* Swedish Pirate Party Member To Be EU's Youngest MP
* How Technology Is Shaping Language
* 11 Amazing Things NASA's Huge Mars Rover Can Do
* Are Maker Spaces the Future of Public Libraries?
* Recycled Medical Records Used As Scrap Paper At Elementary School
* Afghanistan Biometric Data Given To US
* A Drone Helicopter That Can Land On a Moving Truck
* Separating Fact From Hype On Mobile Malware
* Fox-IT Completes the Picture On the Factored RSA-512 Keys
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| MS To Build Antivirus Into Win8: Boon Or Monopoly?
| from the efficacy-to-be-determined dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday November 21, @13:36 (Microsoft)
| with 608 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/11/21/1814228/ms-to-build-antivirus-into-win8-boon-or-monopoly?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]jfruhlinger writes "Microsoft has quietly announced that it's
[1]planning on baking anti-virus protection right into the Windows 8 OS.
Users have been criticizing Windows' insecurity for years ��� but of course
this move is raising howls of [2]protest from anti-virus vendors, who
have built a nice business out of Windows' security holes. Is this a good
move by Microsoft, or a leveraging of their monopoly as bad as
[3]bundling Internet Explorer?"
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/11/21/1814228/ms-to-build-antivirus-into-win8-boon-or-monopoly?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://joshreads.com/
1. http://www.itworld.com/software/226277/microsoft-include-anti-virus-windows-8-good-idea-or-monopoly
2. http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/09/14/windows-8-anti-virus-good-bad-news/
3. http://slashdot.org/story/11/10/26/235219/antitrust-case-over-microsoft-ties-ie-10-to-win-8
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| Petition Calls For Making Net Access Inalienable Right
| from the 1337th-amendment dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Monday November 21, @08:48 (The Internet)
| with 404 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/11/21/1228223/petition-calls-for-making-net-access-inalienable-right?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]CelticWhisper writes "Targeted at stopping SOPA, a petition has been
started at the White House's 'We The People' page calling for [1]a
Constitutional amendment that would render internet access an inalienable
right. Other countries have already adopted such classification for
internet access. An excerpt from petition text reads: 'The United States
Government is actively attempting to pass legislation to censor Internet.
There are numerous campaigns against this Act, but we need to do more
than just prevent SOPA from passing. Otherwise, future Acts of similar
nature will oppress our rights.' Is calling for a Constitutional
amendment to guarantee this too extreme, or is the Internet sufficiently
entrenched in modern life that access to it should be guaranteed by the
Constitution?"
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/11/21/1228223/petition-calls-for-making-net-access-inalienable-right?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. mailto:celticwhisper.gmail@com
1. https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petition/amend-constitution-making-internet-unalienable-right/YJ3fXQcm
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| Bradley Manning's Court Date Finally Set
| from the speedy-is-subjective dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday November 21, @15:45 (The Courts)
| with 399 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/11/21/2041230/bradley-mannings-court-date-finally-set?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]bs0d3 writes "Bradley Manning [1]has finally been scheduled for a day
in court. On December 16, [2]he will have an Article 32 hearing ([3]military
pre-trial). Private Manning has been in jail for one and half years. The
Article 32 hearing will begin at Fort Meade, Maryland. The primary
purpose of the hearing is to evaluate the relative strengths and
weaknesses of the government's case, as well as to provide the defense
with an opportunity to obtain pretrial discovery. Further trial dates and
locations are still unknown."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/11/21/2041230/bradley-mannings-court-date-finally-set?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://activepolitic.com:82/News/2011-11-21b/Bradley_Mannings_Court_Date_Finnally_Set.html
1. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/11/bradley-manning-hearing/
2. http://www.armycourtmartialdefense.info/2011/11/article-32-hearing.html
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_32_hearing
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| How To Get Into an Elite Comp-Sci Program
| from the a-little-nepotism-goes-a-long-way dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Monday November 21, @11:32 (Education)
| with 257 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/11/21/1536231/how-to-get-into-an-elite-comp-sci-program?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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alphadogg writes "With [0]early applications to elite colleges at an
all-time high, the nation's highest-rated undergraduate computer science
programs are bracing for an uptick in applications between now and
January. High school seniors are facing stiffer-than-ever competition
when applying to the nation's top computer science programs this fall.
But admissions officers and professors at elite tech schools can offer
tips aimed at helping your child get accepted come spring."
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Links:
0. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/112111-computer-science-student-253305.html
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| Plate Readers Abound in DC Area, With Little Regard For Privacy
| from the hey-I-imagined-it dept.
| posted by timothy on Monday November 21, @08:08 (Government)
| with 250 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/11/21/0328259/plate-readers-abound-in-dc-area-with-little-regard-for-privacy?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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schwit1 writes "More than 250 cameras in Washington D.C. and its suburbs
scan license plates in real time. It's a program that's [0]quietly
expanded beyond what anyone had imagined even a few years ago. Some
jurisdictions store the information in a large networked database; others
retain it only in the memory of each individual reader's computer, then
delete it after several weeks as new data overwrite it. A George Mason
University study last year found that 37 percent of large police agencies
in the United States now use license plate reader technology and that a
significant number of other agencies planned to have it by the end of
2011. But the survey found that fewer than 30 percent of the agencies
using the tool had researched any legal implications. With virtually no
public debate, police agencies have begun storing the information from
the cameras, building databases that document the travels of millions of
vehicles."
Discuss this story at:
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| DNA Test To Determine Kids' Sports Futures
| from the ok-let's-watch-gattaca-again dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday November 20, @22:06 (Biotech)
| with 231 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/11/21/032202/dna-test-to-determine-kids-sports-futures?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]bs0d3 writes "Parents are being sold on the idea of buying [1]DNA
tests for their kids, to find out which sports they will be better at.
The company called [2]Atlas is based in Boulder, Colorado; and is selling
DNA tests for $160. They are looking for what's called the [3]ACTN-three
gene, the gene behind what is called 'fast-twitch explosive muscles.'
Children that don't have ACTN-three will be better suited for endurance
sports like long distance running or swimming. Children that have a lot
of it will be better suited for sports like football, rugby, wrestling,
or hockey. Kids that have some ACTN-three will not be the fastest and not
the slowest, they don't burn out the quickest and they don't last the
longest. They are categorized as capable of playing just about any type
of sport they like."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/11/21/032202/dna-test-to-determine-kids-sports-futures?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://activepolitic.com:82/
1. http://www.necn.com/11/13/11/DNA-swab-tests-kids-athletic-ability/landing_scitech.html?blockID=593222&feedID=4213
2. http://www.atlasgene.com/
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACTN3
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| JavaScript JVM Runs Java
| from the build-a-weirder-mousetrap dept.
| posted by timothy on Monday November 21, @00:50 (Java)
| with 226 comments
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/11/21/0454254/javascript-jvm-runs-java?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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mikejuk writes "The world of software is made slightly crazy because of
the huge flexibility within any computer language. Once you have absorbed
the idea of a compiler written in the language it compiles, what else is
there left to gawp at? But... a [0]Java Virtual Machine JVM written in
JavaScript seems like another level of insanity. A lone coder, Artur
Ventura, has implemented a large part of the standard JVM using
JavaScript and you can check the code out on Github. Notice this isn't a
Java to JavaScript translator but a real JVM that runs byte code. This
means it could run any language that compiles to byte code." Bonus: on
Ventura's website is a set of [1]visual notes from a talk he gave titled
"[2]My Language Is Better Than Yours."
Discuss this story at:
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/11/21/0454254/javascript-jvm-runs-java?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.i-programmer.info/news/167-javascript/3360-javascript-jvm-runs-java.html
1. http://www.surf-the-edge.com/2011/11/16/live-sketching/
2. https://codebits.eu/intra/s/session/178
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| SCADA Hacker: Water District Used 3-Character Password
| from the abc-easy-as-123 dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Monday November 21, @10:12 (Security)
| with 201 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/11/21/1357227/scada-hacker-water-district-used-3-character-password?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Trailrunner7 writes "In an e-mail interview with Threatpost, a hacker who
compromised software used to manage water infrastructure for South
Houston, Texas, said the district had HMI (human machine interface)
software used to manage water and sewage infrastructure accessible to the
Internet and [0]used a password that was just three characters long. The
hacker, using the handle 'pr0f' took credit for a remote compromise of
supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems. Communicating
from an e-mail address tied to a Romanian domain, the hacker told
Threatpost that he discovered the vulnerable system using a scanner that
looks for the online fingerprints of SCADA systems. 'This was barely a
hack. A child who knows how the HMI that comes with Simatic works could
have accomplished this,' he wrote in an e-mail."
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| Toyota To Let People Ride In Self-Driving Prius
| from the we-who-are-about-to-die-salute-you dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday November 21, @16:27 (Robotics)
| with 183 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/11/21/2119205/toyota-to-let-people-ride-in-self-driving-prius?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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fergus07 writes "Toyota is to show an autonomous Prius at Tokyo Motor
Show. Dubbed the Toyota AVOS (Automatic Vehicle Operation System), [0]the
car will be available for members of the public to take 'back seat' rides
at the show, demonstrating first hand how the Prius can avoid obstacles,
be summoned from a parking garage and park itself."
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/11/21/2119205/toyota-to-let-people-ride-in-self-driving-prius?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.gizmag.com/toyota-autonomous-prius-hybrid-tokyo-motor-show/20554/
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| DARPA Requests Replacement To Antibiotics
| from the turning-on-the-autodoc dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Monday November 21, @10:53 (Medicine)
| with 176 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/11/21/1510231/darpa-requests-replacement-to-antibiotics?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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eldavojohn writes "In the grand scheme of things, antibiotics are a very
temporary solution to aid humans in combating bacteria. Bacterial
resistance to said antibiotics is an increasing fear and DARPA's
[0]'Rapidly Adaptable Nanotherapeutics' solicitation reveals they're
[1]interested in a more permanent solution as modifying the genes of
harmless bacteria can result in [2]powerful bioweapons. Like [3]siRNA,
DARPA is hoping for more nanomolecules that can specifically target cells
and deliver medicine to them anywhere in the body. Most amazing about
this proposal is that it's aimed at small businesses and hopes to turn a
process that takes decades to study a new antibiotic into a few weeks to
manufacture nanomedicine to specifically target bacteria."
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https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/11/21/1510231/darpa-requests-replacement-to-antibiotics?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.acq.osd.mil/osbp/sbir/solicitations/sbir20121/darpa121.htm
1. http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/11/darpa-nano-antibiotics/
2. http://www.sunshine-project.org/bwintro/gebw.html
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_interfering_RNA
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| Amazon Denies Reports That Airport Scanners Ruin Kindle's e-Ink
| from the not-our-problem dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Monday November 21, @12:12 (Technology)
| with 151 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/11/21/1614213/amazon-denies-reports-that-airport-scanners-ruin-kindles-e-ink?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]judgecorp writes "Amazon has poured cold water on the story, but
reports insist that [1]Kindles are sometimes rendered useless by airport
baggage handling and security checks. Many people report no problems at
all but if something is going wrong, the culprit may not be the X-ray
scanner, but a static shock."
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Links:
0. http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/
1. http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/amazon-denies-airport-security-ruins-kindle-screens-46599
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| How Much Tech Can Kids Take?
| from the cybernetic-implants-are-unsuitable-for-infants dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday November 21, @17:08 (Education)
| with 150 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/11/21/2158226/how-much-tech-can-kids-take?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Barence writes "Are today's children facing technology overload, or
simply gearing themselves up for life in a digital world? This article
examines [1]the effects of exposing children to technology at a young age.
Researchers warn of the potential dangers of too much 'screen time,'
pointing to alarming (some say scaremongering) research that suggests
over-exposure leads to an increased risk of developing autism and
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Educators, meanwhile, highlight
how technology can improve interaction between child and parent, and
provide essential life skills, such as enhanced communication and
multitasking. Parents are left with conflicting messages ��� but how much
technology is too much technology for children?"
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/11/21/2158226/how-much-tech-can-kids-take?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.pcpro.co.uk/
1. http://www.pcpro.co.uk/features/371287/how-much-tech-can-children-take
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| Swedish Pirate Party Member To Be EU's Youngest MP
| from the jumping-the-queue dept.
| posted by timothy on Monday November 21, @03:44 (EU)
| with 132 comments
| https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/11/21/0230217/swedish-pirate-party-member-to-be-eus-youngest-mp?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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First time accepted submitter genjix writes "In a few weeks Amelia
Andersdotter will be the second Pirate Party member to take a seat at the
European Parliament in Brussels. The 24-year-old Swede was voted in more
than two years ago, but due to bureaucratic quibbles her official
appointment was delayed. TorrentFreak [0]catches up with the soon-to-be
youngest MEP to hear about her plans and expectations."
Discuss this story at:
https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/11/21/0230217/swedish-pirate-party-member-to-be-eus-youngest-mp?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-to-join-european-parliament-as-youngest-member-111120/
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| How Technology Is Shaping Language
| from the tweets-are-for-birds dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday November 21, @14:18 (Technology)
| with 129 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/11/21/1910257/how-technology-is-shaping-language?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "This is an interesting article about [0]how
technology is shaping the English language, which touches on the fate of
the current crop of (sometimes silly) tech-inspired words, and
anticipates an increased blurring of the line between the written and
spoken word. Professor David Crystal, honorary professor at the School of
Linguistics and English Studies at the University of Bangor, says, 'This
kind of ludicity [linguistic playfulness] is very attractive for a while.
People keep it going and then it sort of falls out of use. Exactly how
long it will go on for is unclear but it's like any game, any novelty,
any linguistic novelty ��� I can't see it lasting. If you look back 10
years ago to the kind of clever-clever things that were going on in the
1990s ��� MUDs and MOOs ��� all the early game strategies and lots of very
interesting language features coming up as people tried to develop a
style of language that would suit the technology. Well, that technology's
history now and the language has gone with it.'"
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https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/11/21/1910257/how-technology-is-shaping-language?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| 11 Amazing Things NASA's Huge Mars Rover Can Do
| from the rover-4.0 dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Monday November 21, @12:53 (Mars)
| with 124 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/11/21/1655255/11-amazing-things-nasas-huge-mars-rover-can-do?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]TheNextCorner writes "NASA is getting set to launch its next Mars
rover this week. [1]The car-size Curiosity rover is the centerpiece of
NASA's $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission, slated to
blast off Saturday (Nov. 26) from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in
Florida. The rover will employ [2]10 different science instruments to
help it answer questions once it touches down on the Red Planet in August
2012."
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Links:
0. http://thenextcorner.net/
1. http://www.space.com/13689-nasa-amazing-mars-rover-curiosity-science.html
2. http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/08/14/1846200/cutting-edge-tech-slated-for-next-mars-rover
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| Are Maker Spaces the Future of Public Libraries?
| from the yes-please dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday November 21, @15:02 (Hardware)
| with 122 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/11/21/1937243/are-maker-spaces-the-future-of-public-libraries?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]misterbarnacles writes "Shareable has an interview with librarian
Lauren Britton Smedley from the Fayetteville Free Library, which is
[1]adding a Fab Lab to its community offerings. She said, 'I think that
libraries are really centers for knowledge exchange, and a Fab Lab fits
perfectly into something like that. This idea that libraries are a place
where the books live, and you go to find a book, and that���s all it is, I
think is really starting to shift. Libraries are a place for social
transformation. They���re a place that you can go to get computer access,
or access to technology that you can���t get anywhere else, and access to
people. ... At the Fab Lab, the impetus behind the whole thing was to
create a center for knowledge exchange where we���re not just offering
Intro to Word or Intro to Excel ��� that we can offer Intro to Computer
Programming, or Digital Fabrication ��� these skills that are really
important in the STEM fields, and we can push that information out for
free. And how do we do that? By getting people in the community who know
that stuff to come in and share what they know.'"
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https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/11/21/1937243/are-maker-spaces-the-future-of-public-libraries?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://12ptplan.com/
1. http://www.shareable.net/blog/the-future-of-public-libraries-maker-spaces
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| Recycled Medical Records Used As Scrap Paper At Elementary School
| from the it's-a-purple-duck-with-shot-records dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Monday November 21, @10:32 (Medicine)
| with 113 comments
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/11/21/1416203/recycled-medical-records-used-as-scrap-paper-at-elementary-school?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Parents with students at Hale Elementary School in Minneapolis have found
something interesting on the back of their children's pictures hanging on
the fridge, [0]detailed medical information. From the article: "Jennifer
Kane was tidying her dining room when she found the drawing by her
daughter, Keely, who goes to Hale Elementary School. On the back of the
paper was the name, birth date and detailed medical information for a
24-year-old St. Paul woman named Paula White. 'The more I read it, the
more alarmed I became about the amount of information I had about this
person,' said Kane." The security lapse has been blamed on a paralegal
donating the paper to the school.
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Links:
0. http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2011/11/17/private-medical-records-used-as-scrap-paper-at-mpls-school/
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| Afghanistan Biometric Data Given To US
| from the lets-pull-up-your-information dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Monday November 21, @09:30 (Privacy)
| with 94 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/11/21/1316229/afghanistan-biometric-data-given-to-us?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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wisebabo writes "I just noticed that not only are all Afghans going to
have their biometric data (fingerprints and iris scans) recorded but the
government plans to share it with the U.S. From the article: 'Gathering
the data does not stop at Afghanistan's borders, however, since [0]the
military shares all of the biometrics it collects with the United States
Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security through
interconnected databases.' Talk about 'know thine enemy' (or I guess, for
now, friend). Does this foretell the near future when the U.S. govt. (and
by extension, Chinese hackers) have the biometrics of almost everyone
alive?"
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| A Drone Helicopter That Can Land On a Moving Truck
| from the perfect-for-the-next-terminator-movie dept.
| posted by timothy on Monday November 21, @06:12 (The Military)
| with 57 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/11/21/0521226/a-drone-helicopter-that-can-land-on-a-moving-truck?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]garymortimer writes with a story (the accompanying video is worth
watching) of an unmanned helicopter than [1]can automatically land on a
moving surface. Though it's shown landing on a bed of a moving truck, the
real purpose is for sea-based use: "This automatic system for take-off,
landing and deck-landing of UAVs is the fruit of the joint expertise of
Thales and DCNS. Thales is responsible for the positioning system and its
interface with the UAV system, the supply of a UAV demonstrator system
and slaving of the flight path along a trajectory. DCNS is responsible
for predicting the vessel motions, the harpoon system as well as the
interface and integration with the vessel."
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Links:
0. http://www.suasnews.com/
1. http://www.suasnews.com/2011/11/9815/dcns-and-thales-have-overcome-a-new-hurdle-for-the-automatic-deck-landing-of-uas/
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| Separating Fact From Hype On Mobile Malware
| from the viruses-in-your-pocket dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday November 21, @18:33 (Android)
| with 30 comments
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/11/21/2249203/separating-fact-from-hype-on-mobile-malware?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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wiredmikey writes with this quote from an article about determining
[0]whether the recent doom-and-gloom reports about malware on mobile
devices are justified: "As twilight approaches for 2011, security vendors
have set their gaze on the rise of Android malware during the year and
what is ahead. Last week, Juniper Networks entered the fray, declaring
the number of malware samples it observed targeting devices running
Google Android had shot up nearly 500 percent since July. Today, McAfee
released its threats report for the third quarter of the year, which
found that the amount of malware targeting Android devices jumped 37
percent since the second quarter. While there is no doubt the amount of
malicious programs with Windows in their bull's eye dwarfs the amount of
threats to mobile devices, the focus on Android malware have left some
wondering how to [1]separate fact from hype."
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Links:
0. http://www.securityweek.com/separating-fact-hype-mobile-malware
1. https://plus.google.com/u/0/114765095157367281222/posts/ZqPvFwdDLPv
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| Fox-IT Completes the Picture On the Factored RSA-512 Keys
| from the sneaky-rogues-with-broken-keys dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday November 21, @17:50 (Encryption)
| with 25 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/11/21/2213230/fox-it-completes-the-picture-on-the-factored-rsa-512-keys?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader sends in this excerpt from the Fox-IT blog: "During
recent weeks we have observed several interesting publications which have
a direct relation to an investigation we worked on recently. On one hand
there was a Certificate Authority [0]being revoked by Mozilla, Microsoft
and Google (Chrome), on the other hand there was the disclosure of a
malware attack by Mikko Hypponen (FSecure) using a government issued
certificate signed by the same Certificate Authority. That case, however,
is not self-contained, and a whole range of malicious software had been
signed with valid certificates. The malicious software involved was used
in targeted attacks focused on governments, political organizations and
the defense industry. The big question is, of course, what happened, and
how did the attackers obtain access to these certificates? We will
explain here in detail how the attackers have [1]used known techniques to
bypass the Microsoft Windows code signing security model."
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Links:
0. http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/11/04/1539253/microsoft-mozilla-and-google-ban-malaysian-intermediate-ca
1. http://blog.fox-it.com/2011/11/21/rsa-512-certificates-abused-in-the-wild/
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