Always glad to see common sense prevail.
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Charges against high school hackers dropped
The 13 students from Pennsylvania who were accused of hacking the iBooks provided to them by the school have been relived of their felony charges.
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Free! Startup school for Hackers
October 15 2k5 in Cambridge, Mass. covers things like “…how to incorporate a company; patent and intellectual property law;” – Oh well, it's free.. and they claim “We'll have [sic] range of experts”
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U. of GA Leaks Social Security Numbers
The University of Georgia acknowledged Wednesday that a hacker had breached the school's network and potentially accessed up to 2,429 Social Security numbers belonging to current and past faculty.
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Experts: Computer Crime Down But Caution Still Needed
CSI/FBI Computer Crime and Security Survey, Richardson noted that the average loss per cybercrime incident in 2005 was about US$250,000. That compares to $500,000 in 2004 and more than $3 million in 2001
I guess Computer Crime has gone up comparing the begining of the year to the end of the year but overall more people (especially companies) are taking security much more seriously. And it is about time, but industry security still has a ways to go… home security has barely started.
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Spyware Can Constitute illegal Trespass On Home Computers
In the case of Sotelo v. DirectRevenue, the plantiff filed a complaint against various defendants claiming that they download and/or installed software on his computer without his consent. I bet the creators of DirectRevenue did see THIS is their risk analysis.. getting sued by potential costumers.
This seems to be a growing trend. Just look at Mr. Braver, he won $10 Million dollars. And it this tort happy world I suspect there will me much more. Lawsuits seem to be like the new lottery. Some people even do it for a living or a health plan. Don't get me wrong, I want to kill spam at the roots, I'm just wondering how far lawsuits will take us in the right direction. Unlike the RIAA, I don't think that lawsuit are the answer to life, the universe and every thing. Hopefully,
A federal trial court in Chicago has ruled recently that the ancient legal doctrine of trespass to chattels (meaning trespass to personal property) applies to the interference caused to home computers by spyware.
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How to get your OWN videos on the iPod video
I was wondering if it's possible to get my own videos (that I've either taken or ripped) on the iPod and it seems Quicktime Pro 7 will do the trick. I hope there are other ways.
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Linux Introduction with Comprehensive Bash Guide
These pages contain three e-books: A “Newbie Guide”, the most comprehensive Bash Guide (I could find) and everything about firewalls and proxies. You can also download that whole thing as a compiled Windows help file ;-). Quite worth a digg!
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Hack-A-Day goes independent
Hack-A-Day wasn't part of the deal when AOL bought Weblogs, Inc. They will continue to do what they've always done, independent of any network.
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25 unpatched flaws in Internet Explorer
According to this overview by Secunia, Microsoft's Internet Explorer has 25 unpatched security holes. Firefox is doing better, but isn't perfect, with 3 unpatched vulnerabilities (there's a link at the top of the page).