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Software developer LanSchool unveils a monitoring system that captures thumbnail screenshots of students' computers and displays them on the teacher's screen. [CNET News.com]
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A former America Online call center employee pleads guilty to exercising the stock options of another employee and diverting tens of thousands of dollars to himself. [CNET News.com]
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Acording to a story at The Chronicle, MediaForce ( a company that markets itself as "fighting online piracy") is tracking students' file sharing practices on behalf of Hollywood studios... [Ad Usum Delphinorum]
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Telepolis: 'Die Fahnder haben 53 Fotos verdächtiger Krawallos vom 1. Mai ins Netz gestellt - gegen ein klares Votum des Abgeordnetenhauses'. Berliner Polizei packt das Online-Jagdfieber. [krit]
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Oct. 1 [~] Users of the online payment service PayPal have been hit with two scams to steal passwords, and ultimately cash.PayPal has taken steps to fight the scams, but critics say the company should have warned its users more thoroughly to never release password information.
An e-mail sent to PayPal users requested a reply with the user's password. With the subject line "PayPal Verification," the e-mail asked for the user name, password, and credit card number and expiration date.
Citing a rise in fraud, the e-mail read: "We are now requesting the password to the e-mail address you signed up to PayPal with. This is so our systems can confirm the confirmation e-mails of PayPal stay in your account because there has been a rise in the amount of fraudsters getting access to users e-mail addresses and deleting the Paypal confirmations. This is to protect you and ourselves. PayPal will use this information for fraud protection only."
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Government tech security staffers compile, combat the toughest computer vulnerabilities.
The focus will be on fixes Wednesday, when the U.S. General Services Administration unveils its list of the top 20 Internet security vulnerabilities to a gathering of government chief information officers and IT professionals.
This is the third year that the GSA has released the list publicly. Compiled by the nonprofit SANS (Sysadmin, Audit, Network, Security) Institute and the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC), the list is intended to raise awareness of serious computer vulnerabilities and give administrators a way to determine priorities for patching vulnerabilities.
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The 'Paypal Donate' button I've placed on activeRenderer's site produced unexpected results.
I did receive - I am still receiving - several contributions, which is very nice.
Unfortunately, the - already impressive - amount of spam I'm subjected to has almost tripled, most of the new messages making explicit sexual promises of one kind or another. The increase was too steep and timely too be purely coincidental.[read more]
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I haven't listened to the report yet, but Mike Whybark writes in to criticize the radio program's report and encourage folks to listen to it themselves, and send feedback to the program. [80211b News]
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New Scientist has some more techincal details about the IRIS peer-to-peer network being developed at MIT and Berkley. The developers say they're making the network censorship-resistant, which is interesting given that the project is government funded. p2p geeks will want to read the project proposal , which outlines the scope and gives some background. It doesn't seem to have progressed beyond the proposal; there's no code and no other documentation on the site.... [zem]
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Online merchants are concerned over "parasiteware", a new development in the spyware/adware model that diverts affiliate commissions from online sales. Merchants appear to be looking for technological solutions rather than seeking legislative options, which is a good sign. [zem]
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"We have 100 percent coverage of peer-to-peer file sharing," Ishikawa claims. "If you are illegally sharing copyrighted materials, we know who you are." And who is Ishikawa? He's CEO of BayTSP, a company that helps companies find illegal file-swappers, and is supposedly helping the government locate terrorists. And, surprisingly, for a guy who is being paid handsomely by entertainment companies, he's not a fan of the DMCA. Why? Read the Cringely article. (Thanks Marty for bringing this to my attention) [Ernest Svenson's Radio Weblog]
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Wired examines arguments in a challenge to a St Louis law that prohibits the sale of violent video games to minors. A similar Indianapolis law was overturned late last year on constitutional grounds.
Scholars and game industry trade organizations reiterated their long-held stance earlier this week in court papers filed in a St. Louis County trial attempting to strike down a county ordinance that criminalizes the sale or display of violent video games to minors.
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Maximillian Dornseif, 2002.
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