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Written by ph0bYx
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Wednesday, 16 March 2011 10:46 |
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The internet is the "greatest spying machine the world has ever seen" and is not a technology that necessarily favours the freedom of speech, the WikiLeaks co-founder, Julian Assange, has claimed in a rare public appearance.
Assange acknowledged that the web could allow greater government transparency and better co-operation between activists, but said it gave authorities their best ever opportunity to monitor and catch dissidents.
"While the internet has in some ways an ability to let us know to an unprecedented level what government is doing, and to let us co-operate with each other to hold repressive governments and repressive corporations to account, it is also the greatest spying machine the world has ever seen," he told students at Cambridge University. Hundreds queued for hours to attend.
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Written by bad_brain
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Thursday, 24 February 2011 14:19 |
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source: Reuters
A British judge ruled Thursday that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should be extradited to Sweden to face sex-crimes allegations.
Judge Howard Riddle's decision means Assange, who has been free under strict conditions since he was released him on bail in December, must be extradited within 10 days.
However, the 39-year-old Australian has seven days in which to launch an appeal to London's High Court.
Riddle said the allegations of rape and sexual molestation by two WikiLeaks volunteers are extraditable offenses. He added that "there is simply no reason to believe there has been a mistake" in issuing an arrest warrant.
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Last Updated on Thursday, 24 February 2011 14:25 |
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Written by bad_brain
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Friday, 18 February 2011 13:29 |
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IBM super computer Watson came away victorious during Jeopardy Wednesday, but not before the game show's former champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter rallied a formidable defense. In the end, however, the humans were no match for Watson, which won with a commanding lead of $77,147 after three days of Jeopardy play. Jennings took second place at $24,000 and Rutter was third with $21,600. "I for one welcome our new computer overlords," Jennings jokingly wrote in his answer during Final Jeopardy on Wednesday's broadcast. The three-night Jeopardy challenge was taped in January at IBM's T. J. Watson Research Laboratory in Yorktown Heights, New York.
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Written by ph0bYx
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Friday, 04 February 2011 21:40 |
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Google has offered $20,000 for an attack on its Chrome browser that also manages to break out of the protective sandbox. The sandbox is designed to prevent attacks on a system when an exploit has managed to inject and execute code via a vulnerability. The most recent similar hole in Chrome was closed in mid-January – the developer who discovered it received $3133.7 for his find.
Organised by the Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) team at security researchers TippingPoint, the Pwn2Own 2011 contest offers a further $105,000 for security holes found in Internet Explorer, Safari and Firefox, as well as in Windows Phone 7, iOS, Blackberry 6 and Android, that allow malicious code to be injected and executed. Holes in Symbian have been dropped from the program this year.
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Written by ph0bYx
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Monday, 31 January 2011 14:50 |
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By John Leyden, TheRegister.co.uk
Open-source code repository SourceForge has advised users to change their passwords following a concerted hacking attack.
The attack, launched last Wednesday, targeted developer infrastructure and involved the compromise of SourceForge.net servers. SourceForge detected the attack and quickly disabled CVS, ishell, file uploads, and project web updates as a precaution against deeper compromise.
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