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Wednesday, 15-December-2010 12:56:22 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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There's a bit more analysis of the Gawker security issue here on Forbes and here on CNET. Anybody who registered with any of Gawker's sites--Gawker, Gizmodo, Jezebel, Lifehacker, io9, Jalopnik, Kotaku, Deadspin and Fleshbot--is at risk, unless they logged in using Facebook Connect, according to an FAQ on Lifehacker. The exposed data includes a bunch of e-mail addresses of workers at federal, state, and local government agencies, that PBS Newshour reports appear to have been separated out for possible future attacks.
IntelInside sends word that the inventor of the USB thumb drive has another trick up his sleeve. The FluCard - a postage stamp-size storage device that can also transmit data wirelessly - is Tan's new baby, and he hopes to see it used by millions of people; just like the USB drive.
An interesting court decision in the USA has protected email privacy. In a landmark decision issued today in the criminal appeal of U.S. v. Warshak, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the government must have a search warrant before it can secretly seize and search emails stored by email service providers.
We haven't heard much from Dan's Data lately, but here's a couple of interesting recent articles on hardware piracy and artificial intelligence, thanks sabz. Atoms are not really "the new bits", if only because you can't duplicate atoms for free or distribute them with wires. But there are still definite similarities between fabbing atoms and manipulating data. So a surprising amount of manufacturing capability may, soon, be sitting on ordinary consumers' desks.
Richard Stallman has some concerns about ChromeOS. Google's new cloud computing ChromeOS looks like a plan "to push people into careless computing" by forcing them to store their data in the cloud rather than on machines directly under their control, warns Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation and creator of the operating system GNU.
metamorphosis spotted another Humble Indie Bundle game pack where you choose how much you want to pay, and support Child's Play and the EFF. Pay what you want. If you bought these five games separately, it would cost around $85 but we're letting you set the price! All of the games work great on Mac, Windows, and Linux.
A Chinese anti-virus war has ended with a suspended death sentence, thanks dasuperham. Yu Bing, former director of the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau, has reportedly been given a two year suspended death sentence for using state systems to fraudulently trump up business for antivirus vendor, Rising Antivirus.
JC sent in these easter eggs in albums. Well, it turns out some of the most popular musicians of the past 50 years have been getting in on the action too, and just not telling anyone. It's almost like they knew the internet would be invented, and that the music fans who hang out there would have way too much time on our hands.
Today's timewaster is our traditional Christmas favourite, winterbells. Thanks for the reminder, Charg3r!
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