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In this issue:
* Graduate Students Being Warned Away From Leaked Cables
* Google Quashes 13 Chrome Bugs, Adds PDF Viewer
* Environmental Watchdogs Confused By E-Waste Practices
* IAEA Forms Nuclear Fuel Bank
* Microsoft Builds JavaScript Malware Detection Tool
* Google Buys Manhattan Office/Telecom Hub
* Bill Calls For Wi-Fi Base Stations In All Federal Buildings
* PayPal Withdraws WikiLeaks Donation Service
* Cybergang Compromises Every ATM In Russian City
* Wikipedia Pages Now On Amazon — With Product Links
* OpenSUSE To Offer a Rolling Release Repository
* Law and the Multiverse
* Doorways Sneak To Non-Default Ports of Hacked Servers
* China Views Internet As "Controllable"
* PS3 With 3.50 Firmware Jailbroken Without Downgrade
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| Graduate Students Being Warned Away From Leaked Cables
| from the we're-checking-your-history dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday December 03, @19:01 (Censorship)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/12/03/2326207/Graduate-Students-Being-Warned-Away-From-Leaked-Cables?from=newsletter
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IamTheRealMike writes "The US State Department has started to warn
potential recruits from universities [0]not to read leaked cables, lest
it jeopardize their chances of getting a job. They're also showing
warnings to [1]troops who access news websites and [2]the Library of
Congress and Department of Education have blocked WikiLeaks on their own
networks. Quite what happens when these employees go home is an open
question." Update: 12/04 17:48 GMT by [3]T : The friendly warning to
students specifically cautioned them not to comment online or otherwise
indicate that they'd read any of the leaked information; reading them
quietly wasn't specifically named as a deal-breaker.
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/12/03/2326207/Graduate-Students-Being-Warned-Away-From-Leaked-Cables?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.arabist.net/blog/2010/12/2/state-dept-warning-prospective-recruits-to-steer-clear-of-wi.html
1. http://gawker.com/5705639/us-military-in-iraq-tries-to-intimidate-soldiers-into-not-reading-wikileaks
2. http://gawker.com/5705492/library-of-congress-is-latest-government-institution-to-block-wikileaks
3. http://www.monkey.org/~timothy/
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| Google Quashes 13 Chrome Bugs, Adds PDF Viewer
| from the next-please-block-cw-popups dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday December 03, @20:45 (Google)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/12/04/0025243/Google-Quashes-13-Chrome-Bugs-Adds-PDF-Viewer?from=newsletter
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CWmike writes "Google on Thursday [0]patched 13 vulnerabilities in Chrome
8 (stable), and debuted Google's built-in PDF viewer, an alternative to
the bug-plagued Adobe Reader plug-in, and included support for the
still-not-launched Chrome Web Store.The 13 flaws fixed in Chrome
8.0.552.215 are in a variety of components, including the browser's
history, its video indexing and the display of SVG (scalable vector
graphics) animations. Next up: Adobe and Google have collaborated to
[1]put the Flash Player plug-in inside a sandbox within the dev build of
Chrome, an effort by the two companies to better protect users from
attacks."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/12/04/0025243/Google-Quashes-13-Chrome-Bugs-Adds-PDF-Viewer?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9199418/Google_quashes_13_Chrome_bugs_adds_PDF_viewer
1. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9199245/Google_Adobe_sandbox_Flash_for_Chrome_to_protect_users?source=toc
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| Environmental Watchdogs Confused By E-Waste Practices
| from the loudest-voices dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday December 03, @23:41 (Businesses)
| https://politics.slashdot.org/story/10/12/04/004220/Environmental-Watchdogs-Confused-By-E-Waste-Practices?from=newsletter
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[0]retroworks writes with a California-centric story that might have
parallels in other states, too: "The Sacramento Bee digs further into the
controversy over E-Waste exports, and finds that [1]environmental
watchdogs doth protest too much. Remember how we were all urged to use a
'Pledge' Signing company to properly recycle our old computers and
televisions? Remember how companies which didn't 'Pledge' were accused of
exporting toxic poisons by groups like [2]Basel Action Network? The Bee's
Tom Knudson discovered that some of the loudest Pledge recycling
companies used the exact same exporting brokers as BAN was attacking as
'worst actors.' One California firm exported 6.9 million pounds of raw
electronics through the same export market which the environmental
'watchdog' attacked earlier this year... Whether or not the export market
was ok to begin with, or continues to be unacceptable, the watchdogs
still want to be the experts of who is the best 'e-waste' recycling
company. [3]Credibility, RIP."
Discuss this story at:
https://politics.slashdot.org/story/10/12/04/004220/Environmental-Watchdogs-Confused-By-E-Waste-Practices?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. mailto:robin@noSPam.retroworks.com
1. http://www.sacbee.com/2010/11/28/3216070/california-recyclers-find-market.html
2. http://e-stewards.org/find-a-recycler/qualified-pledged-recyclers/
3. http://retroworks.blogspot.com/2010/12/rip-pledge-of-true-stewardship-2002.html
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| IAEA Forms Nuclear Fuel Bank
| from the no-withdrawals dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday December 04, @02:50 (Government)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/12/04/0215219/IAEA-Forms-Nuclear-Fuel-Bank?from=newsletter
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Kemeno writes "The International Atomic Energy Agency voted on Friday to
form a [0]nuclear fuel bank to help developing countries acquire nuclear
fuel without having to enrich uranium themselves. Warren Buffet
contributed 50 million dollars to a pool of 150 million with
contributions from many different countries. The goal of the program is
to provide countries with a source of low-grade enriched uranium suitable
for fueling reactors but not for creating nuclear weapons."
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/12/04/0215219/IAEA-Forms-Nuclear-Fuel-Bank?from=newsletter#commentlisting
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| Microsoft Builds JavaScript Malware Detection Tool
| from the canary-for-the-coalmine dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday December 04, @05:52 (Microsoft)
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/10/12/04/0637218/Microsoft-Builds-JavaScript-Malware-Detection-Tool?from=newsletter
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Trailrunner7 writes "As browser-based exploits and specifically
JavaScript malware have shouldered their way to the top of the list of
threats, browser vendors have been scrambling to find effective defenses
to protect users. Few have been forthcoming, but Microsoft Research has
developed a new tool called Zozzle that can be deployed in the browser
and [0]can detect JavaScript-based malware on the fly at a very high
effectiveness rate. Zozzle is designed to perform static analysis of
JavaScript code on a given site and quickly determine whether the code is
malicious and includes an exploit. In order to be effective, the tool
must be trained to recognize the elements that are common to malicious
JavaScript, and the researchers behind it stress that it works best on
de-obfuscated code."
Discuss this story at:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/10/12/04/0637218/Microsoft-Builds-JavaScript-Malware-Detection-Tool?from=newsletter#commentlisting
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| Google Buys Manhattan Office/Telecom Hub
| from the imagine-that-in-pennies dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday December 04, @08:24 (Google)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/12/04/0650249/Google-Buys-Manhattan-OfficeTelecom-Hub?from=newsletter
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1sockchuck writes "Google will soon own one of the world's choices pieces
of Internet real estate. The company has reportedly signed a contract to
buy [0]111 8th Avenue in New York for an estimated $1.9 billion ��� or
about $250 million more than Google spent to [1]buy YouTube. The building
serves as Google's main New York sales office, but is also one of the
city's main telecom hotels, housing major data center operations for
Digital Realty Trust, Equinix, Telx and dozens of network providers.
Google currently has about 500,000 square feet of office space at 111 8th
Avenue."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/12/04/0650249/Google-Buys-Manhattan-OfficeTelecom-Hub?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2010/12/03/wsj-google-has-bought-111-8th-avenue/
1. http://tech.slashdot.org/story/06/10/09/217207/Google-Buys-YouTube-for-165-Billion
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| Bill Calls For Wi-Fi Base Stations In All Federal Buildings
| from the other-people's-money dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday December 04, @09:26 (Government)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/12/04/1353253/Bill-Calls-For-Wi-Fi-Base-Stations-In-All-Federal-Buildings?from=newsletter
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GovTechGuy submits this from Hillicon Valley: "Sens. Olympia Snowe
(R-Maine) and Mark Warner (D-Va.) introduced legislation on Friday that
would [0]require all public federal buildings to install WiFi base
stations in order to free up cell phone networks. The Federal Wi-Net Act
would mandate the installation of small WiFi base stations in all
publicly accessible federal buildings in order to increase wireless
coverage and free up mobile networks. The bill would require all new
buildings under construction to comply and all older buildings to be
retrofitted by 2014. It also orders $15 million from the Federal
Buildings Fund be allocated to fund the installations."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/12/04/1353253/Bill-Calls-For-Wi-Fi-Base-Stations-In-All-Federal-Buildings?from=newsletter#commentlisting
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| PayPal Withdraws WikiLeaks Donation Service
| from the no-funds-for-you dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday December 04, @10:30 (The Almighty Buck)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/12/04/144238/PayPal-Withdraws-WikiLeaks-Donation-Service?from=newsletter
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ItsIllak writes "The BBC are reporting that [0]PayPal is the latest
company to abandon WikiLeaks. The list now includes their DNS providers
(EveryDNS) and [1]their hosts (Amazon). [2]PayPal's move is unlikely to
result in many more people boycotting the company, as most knowledgeable
on-line users will have been refusing to use them for years for a wide
variety of abusive practices." Adds reader jg21: "As open source freedom
fighter Simon Phipps writes in his ComputerWorldUK blog, behavior like
this by Amazon and Tableau [and now PayPal] 'informs us as customers of
web services and cloud computing services that we are [3]never safe from
intentional outages when the business interests of our host are
challenged.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/12/04/144238/PayPal-Withdraws-WikiLeaks-Donation-Service?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11917891
1. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/12/02/0342220/Wikileaks-Booted-From-Amazon?from=rss
2. http://iphone.tweetmeme.com/story/3279922140/paypal-statement-regarding-wikileaks
3. http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/simon-says/2010/12/the-internets-voltaire-moment/index.htm
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| Cybergang Compromises Every ATM In Russian City
| from the equal-opportunity dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday December 04, @11:29 (Crime)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/12/04/1531252/Cybergang-Compromises-Every-ATM-In-Russian-City?from=newsletter
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Orome1 writes "A group of fraudsters has been arrested in Yakutsk and
Moscow for allegedly [0]compromising all the ATMs in the city of Yakutsk
��� population: around 210,000 ��� in the [1]Republic of Yakutia in the
Russian Federation. Three of the men formed the actual criminal group,
and the fourth ��� a Moscow-based malware developer ��� was 'subcontracted'
by them and received 100,000 rubles (some $3200) to develop a custom ATM
virus with which they would infect the devices."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/12/04/1531252/Cybergang-Compromises-Every-ATM-In-Russian-City?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.net-security.org/malware_news.php?id=1555
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakha_Republic
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| Wikipedia Pages Now On Amazon — With Product Links
| from the seems-like-a-cool-idea-to-me dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday December 04, @12:33 (Google)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/12/04/1538250/Wikipedia-Pages-Now-On-Amazon-mdash-With-Product-Links?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader writes "Last month, e-commerce marketplace Amazon.com
launched a relatively unnoticed new feature that brings content from
Wikipedia pages to its own servers in a shadowy new project that appears
to be called 'Shopping Enabled Wikipedia Pages.' Hosted on the Amazon.com
domain, they replicate Wikipedia's content but have [0]added links to
where a book can be purchased on Amazon. [1]Amazon representative Anya
Waring told CNET when asked via e-mail, 'As of November, we have rolled
out in the books category, however [it] will be expanding to new
categories in 2011.' If Average Joe scrapes Wikipedia and adds affiliate
links to it, [2]Google will remove and punish the domains with duplicate
pages."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/12/04/1538250/Wikipedia-Pages-Now-On-Amazon-mdash-With-Product-Links?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.amazon.com/wiki/Main_Page
1. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-20024297-36.html
2. http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66359
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| OpenSUSE To Offer a Rolling Release Repository
| from the distinguish-from-nightly-builds dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday December 04, @13:40 (SuSE)
| https://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/12/04/1544213/OpenSUSE-To-Offer-a-Rolling-Release-Repository?from=newsletter
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dkd903 writes "While the [0]rumors of Ubuntu moving to a rolling release
have been [1]brought to a halt, another major Linux distribution is
looking to provide a rolling release. In a message to the
opensuse-project mailing list, openSUSE developer Greg Kroah-Hartman
announced a new project ��� [2]openSUSE Tumbleweed. OpenSUSE Tumbleweed
will provide a rolling release for those openSUSE users who wishes to
have a rolling release. It will essentially be a repo containing the
latest stable versions of the applications."
Discuss this story at:
https://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/12/04/1544213/OpenSUSE-To-Offer-a-Rolling-Release-Repository?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/11/24/1346221/Ubuntu-May-Move-To-Rolling-Releases
1. http://slashdot.org/story/10/11/25/1336203/Ubuntus-Engineering-Director-Debunks-Rolling-Release-Rumours
2. http://digitizor.com/2010/12/03/opensuse-to-offer-a-rolling-release-repo-calls-it-tumbleweed/
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| Law and the Multiverse
| from the canna-break-the-laws-o'-physics dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday December 04, @14:44 (Books)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/12/04/1841206/Law-and-the-Multiverse?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader writes "[0]jwz posted a link to this intensely nerdy
blog co-authored by two attorneys who write about [1]applying real-world
law to comic books. Example topics include Mutants and
Anti-Discrimination Laws (a three part series!), Is Batman a State
Actor?, and Federalism and the Keene Act."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/12/04/1841206/Law-and-the-Multiverse?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.jwz.org/blog/2010/11/law-and-the-multiverse-is-batman-a-state-actor/
1. http://lawandthemultiverse.com/
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| Doorways Sneak To Non-Default Ports of Hacked Servers
| from the buncha-jerkfaces dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday December 04, @15:49 (Security)
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/10/12/04/1910202/Doorways-Sneak-To-Non-Default-Ports-of-Hacked-Servers?from=newsletter
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UnmaskParasites writes "To drive traffic to their online stores, software
pirates hack reputable legitimate websites injecting hidden spammy links
and creating doorway pages. Google's search results are seriously
poisoned by such doorways. Negligence of webmasters of compromised sites
makes this scheme viable ��� doorways remain unnoticed for years. Not so
long ago, hackers began to re-configure Apache on compromised servers to
make them [0]serve doorway pages off of non-default ports, still taking
advantage of using established domain names."
Discuss this story at:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/10/12/04/1910202/Doorways-Sneak-To-Non-Default-Ports-of-Hacked-Servers?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://blog.unmaskparasites.com/2010/12/03/doorways-on-non-default-ports-new-trend-in-black-hat-seo/
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| China Views Internet As "Controllable"
| from the and-so-it-is dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday December 04, @16:53 (Censorship)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/12/04/2021219/China-Views-Internet-As-Controllable?from=newsletter
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[0]Radcliffe_V writes "According to a leaked cable via Wikileaks, the
Chinese government [1]views the internet as very controllable, despite
western views otherwise. The New York Times article also sheds light on
how involved the Chinese government is in cyber attacks against US assets
and companies such as Google."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/12/04/2021219/China-Views-Internet-As-Controllable?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. mailto:ztfreeman@neovoxx.com
1. http://www.nytimes.com/glogin?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/05/world/asia/05wikileaks-china.html&OQ=_rQ3D4Q26pagewantedQ3D2Q26hp&OP=9f4aa42Q2FgoHYgQ24_PQ7C,__Q2AsgsFGFgGsgFIgo_,aQ24gjQ7CQ23jgFIoQ23tQ23aHjtQ7C(P0Q234jA0Q2ATa
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| PS3 With 3.50 Firmware Jailbroken Without Downgrade
| from the next-is-home-distilling dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday December 04, @17:56 (Hardware Hacking)
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/10/12/04/2115230/PS3-With-350-Firmware-Jailbroken-Without-Downgrade?from=newsletter
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[0]Khyber writes "Hackers: 2 Sony: 0 ��� that's the current standing score
now that the X3 team have successfully performed a [1]jailbreak on the
official 3.50 PS3 firmware, allowing homebrew applications and more to be
enabled. [2]Here's a video of the jailbreak in action."
Discuss this story at:
https://games.slashdot.org/story/10/12/04/2115230/PS3-With-350-Firmware-Jailbroken-Without-Downgrade?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. mailto:khyberkitsune@gmail.com
1. http://www.shoutpedia.com/jailbreak-ps3-firmware-3.50-x3-max-7162/
2. http://www.youtube.com/v/JRDsGHLZRA4?fs=1&hl=en_US
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