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Israeli jailed for Facebook photo - BBC
Israel has sentenced a soldier to 19 days in jail for uploading a photograph taken on his military base to the social networking website, Facebook. The Israeli military declined to comment on the nature of the image, but said the soldier was serving with an elite intelligence unit. Local media say it is the first such conviction for an Israeli soldier.
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WordPress: Destroyer of CPU’s? - Blogging Pro
So a very interesting article has popped up on Coding Horror that paints the WordPress software in a bad light. A friend of mine Mark from 45n5.com posted about it on Twitter, using it as another jab against all the WordPress "fanboys" in the world. "This is an incredibly scary result; blog.stackoverflow.com is getting, at best, a moderate trickle of incoming traffic. It’s barely linked anywhere! With that kind of CPU load level, this site would fall over instantaneously if it got remotely popular, or God forbid, anywhere near the front page of a social bookmarking website. For a bare-bones blog which is doing approximately nothing, this is a completely unacceptable result. It’s appalling."
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Major College Software Vendor Puts Students at Many Campuses at Risk of Identity Theft - Chronicle of Higher Education
At least 18 colleges are scrambling to inform tens of thousands of students they are at risk of having their identities stolen after SunGard, a leading software vendor, reported that a laptop owned by one of its consultants was stolen. The complete extent of the problem is still unknown, though many of the campuses that have been identified are in Connecticut and New York. The laptop contained students’ names and Social Security numbers. In some cases, the exposed data also included financial aid information, e-mail addresses, birth dates, and driver-identification numbers. Now college officials are accusing SunGard of waiting too long - about one month - to inform them of the security breach. The Connecticut attorney general has opened an inquiry into the incident. And there are widespread concerns that SunGard may not be adequately protecting college data.
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Transcript: FBI director on surveillance of ‘illegal’ Internet activity - CNET News
When the FBI suggested that it should be able to perform wide-scale Internet monitoring to detect "illegal activity" on Wednesday, the bureau raised more questions than it answered. To help clear things up, we’re providing the transcript of FBI Director Robert Mueller’s exchange at a House of Representatives hearing with Rep. Darrell Issa, a California Republican. Issa made his fortune by founding Directed Electronics, a publicly traded company that sells car alarms and home theater loudspeakers. Issa also is a member of the House Intelligence Committee, which is holding a closed hearing on Thursday devoted to the Bush administration’s so-called Cyber Initiative. In January, President Bush signed a pair of secret orders–National Security Presidential Directive 54/Homeland Security Presidential Directive 23–that apparently deal with detecting and preventing Internet disruptions.
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Apple wins dismissal of Ramones suit over downloads - Bloomberg News
Apple and Wal-Mart Stores won dismissal of a lawsuit by a member of the punk band the Ramones who claimed a 24-year-old recording contract prevented retail sales of digital downloads of six songs he wrote. U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin in New York rejected former drummer Richard Reinhardt’s claim that a 1984 accord with Ramones Productions limited sales to phonographic records and other tangible technology.
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Memo to Yahoo: Incoming - Duck and Cover - All Things Digital
And, as BoomTown wrote yesterday, so the war of attrition for Yahoo begins. Not with a bang, but a whimper. And so much whine, I am considering serving up a nice plate of cheese to all players. But while the first moves by Microsoft, which is seeking to take over Yahoo, seem a bit weak, it is likely the more significant bombs will start flying next week.
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