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In this issue:
* Industry IT Security Certification Proposed
* FBI Complains About Wiretapping Difficulties Due To Web Services
* Can Android Without Dalvik Avoid Oracle's Wrath?
* Milky Way Stuffed With an Estimated 50 Billion Alien Worlds
* Police Chief Teaches Parents To Keylog Kids
* Feds Pay Millions For Bogus Spy Software
* The Inner World of Gov-Sponsored White-Hat Hacking
* Iceland Eyes Liquid Magma As Energy Source
* Will Google Oppose DRM On HTML5 Video?
* Chrome May Drop the URL Bar
* GeoHot Asks For Donations To Fight Sony
* The Death of BCC
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| Industry IT Security Certification Proposed
| from the measuring-and-documenting-your-weaknesses dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Saturday February 19, @19:33 (Security)
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/02/19/232226/Industry-IT-Security-Certification-Proposed?from=newsletter
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[0]Roberto123 writes "The US can build defenses against 'cyberwar' by
having government and the private sector work together to confront the
threat, a panel of experts said at RSA Conference 2011 in San Francisco
this week. 'Chertoff called for a regulatory framework where company
executives and board members sign on the dotted line, [1]certifying what
steps they have taken to secure their network, what backup systems they
have in place and what level of resiliency is built into their IT system.
���People take that seriously. Is it dramatic? No, but it moves the ball
down the field,��� Chertoff said. Schneier concurred, noting that holding
individuals at a company accountable for certain protections has worked
with environmental regulations and Sarbanes-Oxley, the post-Enron law
that requires directors and executives to certify their financial
results.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/02/19/232226/Industry-IT-Security-Certification-Proposed?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. mailto:mullico@gmail.com
1. http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/can%E2%80%99t-industry-and-government-%E2%80%98just-get-along
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| FBI Complains About Wiretapping Difficulties Due To Web Services
| from the wait-wait-let-me-find-my-tiny-violin dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Saturday February 19, @20:49 (Communications)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/02/20/0038239/FBI-Complains-About-Wiretapping-Difficulties-Due-To-Web-Services?from=newsletter
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c0lo writes with news that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is
[0]lamenting the difficulty in executing wiretaps because of "web-based
e-mail, social-networking and peer-to-peer services." "President Barack
Obama's administration is debating ways to deal with Web-based services
not covered by traditional wiretap laws, including [1]incentives for
companies to build in surveillance capabilities, said Valerie Caproni,
general counsel at the FBI. Many Internet services are not covered by the
Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA), which requires
traditional telecom carriers to allow law enforcement agencies real-time
access to communications after a court has issued a wiretap order, she
told members of a subcommittee of the US House of Representatives
Judiciary Committee. But Caproni told lawmakers she was not asking for
expanded CALEA powers. And she stopped short of calling for rules
requiring Web-based communication providers to build in so-called back
doors allowing law enforcement access to their software, although she
said she's optimistic the US government can find incentives for companies
to 'have intercept solutions engineered into their systems.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/02/20/0038239/FBI-Complains-About-Wiretapping-Difficulties-Due-To-Web-Services?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/219984/fbi_webbased_services_hurting_wiretapping_efforts.html
1. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/02/newly-released-documents-detail-fbi-s-plan-expand
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| Can Android Without Dalvik Avoid Oracle's Wrath?
| from the just-kidding-nobody-can-avoid-oracle's-wrath dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Saturday February 19, @23:39 (Android)
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/02/20/0043219/Can-Android-Without-Dalvik-Avoid-Oracles-Wrath?from=newsletter
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[0]jfruhlinger writes "Despite the fact that [1]Oracle is suing Google
over claims that Android violates Java IP, Android is roaring ahead in
the marketplace. Still, some groups are wondering if they can
[2]implement Android without incurring Oracle's current or future wrath
by avoiding the [3]Dalvik VM. A project called [4]IcedRobot aims to
create a GNU-compatible version of Android, and rumors abound that RIM is
planning on putting an OpenJDK-version of Android on its upcoming
PlayBook tablets."
Discuss this story at:
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/02/20/0043219/Can-Android-Without-Dalvik-Avoid-Oracles-Wrath?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://joshreads.com/
1. http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/08/13/0255205/Oracle-Sues-Google-For-Infringing-Java-Patents
2. http://www.itworld.com/open-source/137222/choosing-java-sides
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalvik_vm
4. http://www.fosdem.org/2011/schedule/event/icedrobot
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| Milky Way Stuffed With an Estimated 50 Billion Alien Worlds
| from the not-to-mention-nougat dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Sunday February 20, @02:31 (Space)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/02/20/0551239/Milky-Way-Stuffed-With-an-Estimated-50-Billion-Alien-Worlds?from=newsletter
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[0]astroengine writes "Using data extrapolated from the early Kepler
observations of 1,235 candidate exoplanets, mission scientists have
placed an estimate on the number of alien worlds there are in our galaxy.
[1]There are thought to be 50 billion exoplanets, 500 million of which
are probably orbiting within their stars' habitable zones."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/02/20/0551239/Milky-Way-Stuffed-With-an-Estimated-50-Billion-Alien-Worlds?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.astroengine.com/
1. http://news.discovery.com/space/milky-way-stuffed-with-50-billion-alien-worlds.html
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| Police Chief Teaches Parents To Keylog Kids
| from the sergeant-script-kiddie dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Sunday February 20, @05:23 (Privacy)
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/02/20/0412240/Police-Chief-Teaches-Parents-To-Keylog-Kids?from=newsletter
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[0]Hugh Pickens writes writes "LiveScience reports that James Batelli,
the police chief of Mahwah, NJ, and his detectives conduct seminars that
[1]teach parents how to outfit a computer with keystroke logging software,
giving them access to the full spectrum of their kids' online activities.
Batelli explains that kids put themselves in potentially dangerous
situations online every day, especially on Facebook, where they run the
risk of coming into contact with child predators who troll the social
networking site. 'When it comes down to safety and welfare of your child,
I don't think any parent would sacrifice anything to make sure nothing
happens to their children,' he says."
Discuss this story at:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/02/20/0412240/Police-Chief-Teaches-Parents-To-Keylog-Kids?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://hughpickens.com/slashdot/
1. http://www.livescience.com/12906-police-chief-teaches-parents-hack-kids-facebook-accounts.html
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| Feds Pay Millions For Bogus Spy Software
| from the show-of-hands-who-is-surprised dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Sunday February 20, @08:14 (Software)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/02/20/0228236/Feds-Pay-Millions-For-Bogus-Spy-Software?from=newsletter
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gosuperninja writes "The US Government paid tens of millions of dollars
to Dennis Montgomery because he said he had created software that could
decode secret Al-Qaeda messages embedded in Al-Jazeera broadcasts. Even
though [0]the CIA figured out that his software was fraud in 2003, other
defense agencies continued to believe in it. To date, the government has
not prosecuted Montgomery, most likely to save itself the embarrassment."
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/02/20/0228236/Feds-Pay-Millions-For-Bogus-Spy-Software?from=newsletter#commentlisting
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| The Inner World of Gov-Sponsored White-Hat Hacking
| from the good-guy's-bad-guys dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Sunday February 20, @09:59 (Government)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/02/20/1258243/The-Inner-World-of-Gov-Sponsored-White-Hat-Hacking?from=newsletter
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romanval writes "Anonymous leaked emails of white-hat hacker firm HBGary
shows [0]how it develops and markets products to government agencies.
From the article: 'In 2009, HBGary had partnered with the Advanced
Information Systems group of defense contractor General Dynamics to work
on a project euphemistically known as "Task B." The team had a simple
mission: slip a piece of stealth software onto a target laptop without
the owner's knowledge. They focused on ports���a laptop's interfaces to the
world around it���including the familiar USB port, the less-common PCMCIA
Type II card slot, the smaller ExpressCard slot, WiFi, and Firewire. No
laptop would have all of these, but most recent machines would have at
least two.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/02/20/1258243/The-Inner-World-of-Gov-Sponsored-White-Hat-Hacking?from=newsletter#commentlisting
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| Iceland Eyes Liquid Magma As Energy Source
| from the it's-a-little-warm-in-here dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Sunday February 20, @11:45 (Power)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/02/20/1510213/Iceland-Eyes-Liquid-Magma-As-Energy-Source?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader writes "Scientists in Iceland have been studying and
utilizing the power of geothermal wells for years. In 2009 one such study
hit a standstill when a group ran into magma halfway into their dig. The
roadblock has become a blessing in disguise, as recent research has shown
that the magma can act as a [0]potent new source of geothermal energy
powerful enough to heat 25,000 to 30,000 homes."
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/02/20/1510213/Iceland-Eyes-Liquid-Magma-As-Energy-Source?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://inhabitat.com/iceland-may-tap-liquid-magma-as-new-geothermal-energy-source/
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| Will Google Oppose DRM On HTML5 Video?
| from the we-aint-for-it-we're-agin-it dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Sunday February 20, @13:29 (Chrome)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/02/20/1642222/Will-Google-Oppose-DRM-On-HTML5-Video?from=newsletter
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[0]Anonymous Coward writes "[1]Mozilla has committed to not implement DRM
in Firefox for WebM HTML5 video even though it is theoretically possible.
Microsoft [2]has asked Google and the WebM community several other
questions that still have not been answered, but this one seems more
important: will Google commit to keeping WebM in Chrome DRM-free? Does
our community think that is important for the open web and free
software?"
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/02/20/1642222/Will-Google-Oppose-DRM-On-HTML5-Video?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://slashdot.org/
1. http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/2011/02/quora_answer_2_drm_i.html
2. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2011/02/02/html5-and-web-video-questions-for-the-industry-from-the-community.aspx
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| Chrome May Drop the URL Bar
| from the cleaning-things-up dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Sunday February 20, @15:15 (Chrome)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/02/20/1817259/Chrome-May-Drop-the-URL-Bar?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader writes "There isn't much Google can still eliminate
from the browser's interface. Yet Google appears to be considering a
drastic step to free up space in the UI: It may simply [0]kill the URL
bar. Instead of showing the URL bar all the time, it may be hidden within
tabs. There are some other features coming as well. For example, Google
will allow users to be logged in different Google accounts at the same
time, as long as you use those accounts in different windows."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/02/20/1817259/Chrome-May-Drop-the-URL-Bar?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.conceivablytech.com/5746/products/google-may-kill-chrome-url-bar/
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| GeoHot Asks For Donations To Fight Sony
| from the fight-the-power dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Sunday February 20, @17:00 (PlayStation (Games))
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/02/20/1952250/GeoHot-Asks-For-Donations-To-Fight-Sony?from=newsletter
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mede writes "In an interesting turn of events, Sony might have stumbled
into a tough nut to crack. George Hotz (aka GeoHot) famous for his iPhone
hacking achievements, [0]is planning on fighting the big corporation on
removing his free speech rights at utilizing his fully paid for hardware.
Hotz has always claimed being anti-piracy (since iPhone activities) and
expresses has never pirated any game or even signed to PSN agreements.
He's asking for donations to fight Sony back and try to achieve something
similar to what was[1] previously accomplished by the EFF in regard to
cellphones. I've already donated."
Discuss this story at:
https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/02/20/1952250/GeoHot-Asks-For-Donations-To-Fight-Sony?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.techspot.com/news/42495-geohot-asks-for-donations-to-fight-sonys-ps3-hacking-lawsuit.html
1. http://www.copyright.gov/1201/
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| The Death of BCC
| from the fog-of-flamewar dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Sunday February 20, @18:49 (Facebook)
| https://slashdot.org/story/11/02/20/220206/The-Death-of-BCC?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader writes "An interesting op-ed at NeoSmart discusses
[0]the demise of BCC in emails at the hands of Facebook and the like. It
discusses how certain technologies that are slowly being supplanted by
'cooler' yet less effective alternatives have actually been spoiled for
all, since they rely on a basic community-wide awareness regarding these
technologies for them to work."
Discuss this story at:
https://slashdot.org/story/11/02/20/220206/The-Death-of-BCC?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://neosmart.net/blog/2011/the-death-of-bcc/
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