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Update on the Intoxilyzer case

Full Story - Ars Technica This story has been developing for a while now. First Florida, where the results of breath tests in more than 100 local drunken-driving cases were deemed inadmissable to evidence. the validity of those...

Cybersecurity Act of 2009

S. 773, the Cyber Security Act of 2009, was introduced by Senator John Rockefeller (D, WV) with Senators Evan Bayh (D, IN), Bill Nelson (D, FL), and Olympia Snowe (R, ME) as cosponsors. Leslie Harris of the Center for Democracy...

PIFTS.exe

Apparently, Symantecs Norton Antivirus software contains a single exe called pifts.exe. This program is unsigned, which means firewalls can detect when pifts.exe accesses the internet. And it does. Pifts.exe attempts to contact a server in...

Pirate Bay trial winding down: Prosecution closing statements

Day 10 of the Pirate Bay trial consisted of the prosecutions closing arguments. Håkan Roswall told the judge that this trial is not a case against filesharring technology, but simply against the methods with which TPB employs the...

Local Community radio back on the agenda

The Local Community Radio Act was introduced yesterday by Representatives Mike Doyle and Lee Tarry. The act was originally introduced in the 110th congress and garnered widespread support; both Barack Obama and John McCain support the bill, but it...

Ubuntu 9.10 focuses on cloud-computing

And it's codenamed "Karmic Koala". Mark Shuttleworth writes about what he hopes to achieve with 9.10 server edition and desktop edition:During the Karmic cycle we want to make it easy to deploy applications into...

A free, open-source Linux multimedia streamer

GNUMP3d is magic, or at least it felt that way after I installed it. From the site: GNUMP3d is a streaming server for MP3s, OGG vorbis files, movies and other media formats. I'm going to take the liberty of...

Pirate Bay trial, day three

“If I have all this money they claim, someone has apparently stolen it from me.” That was Peter Sunde's twitter response to IFPI's Peter Danowsky on his claim that the Pirate Bay was "organized crime...

Progress report on Pirate Bay trial

Day one of the trial against the Pirate Bay saw the lead prosecutor Håkan Roswal, who claimed to be an expert in computer crime, fail to start his powerpoint presentation. though a trivial situation, it's a...

Charter Communications to file for bankruptcy

Weeks ago it was suggested that Charter Communications, the fourth largest cable provider, would file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy or Chapter 7 liquidation. That's because the company had outstanding debts of up to $20 billion, and they missed...

Update on the Intoxilyzer case

Cybersecurity Act of 2009

PIFTS.exe

Pirate Bay trial winding down: Prosecution closing statements

Local Community radio back on the agenda

Ubuntu 9.10 focuses on cloud-computing

A free, open-source Linux multimedia streamer

Pirate Bay trial, day three

Progress report on Pirate Bay trial

Charter Communications to file for bankruptcy

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