Police to experiment with blinding ‘Dazer Laser’? CNet News
Perhaps “Don’t Dazer Laser me, bro” doesn’t quite trip off the tongue. However, police in the Northwest may soon be experimenting with the Dazer Laser, a tool which, well, shoots, blinds, and disorients. The Dazer Laser is a gun that emits a green light at suspects and causes them to temporarily lose their sight and wonder whether they might have been transported to an alternative galaxy. And, according to King 5 News in Seattle, police in the Northwest might soon be the first to experiment with zapping a green light at a suspected evildoer. The Dazer Laser, allegedly, has less deleterious side effects than tasers and enjoys a greater distance of use than pepper spray. “You need minimal training. It’s not hard to aim a light at somebody,” Officer Tom Arnold of the Lakewood Police Department told King 5. [Men in Black, anyone?]

Majority of UK web users won’t pay for online content’ Telegraph
UK web users are the least likely to part with cash for online content, according to KPMG’s annual ‘Consumers and Convergence’ global survey. The new research found that 81 per cent of UK web users would rather go elsewhere for content online if a frequently used free site started charging for content. With only 19 per cent of UK internet consumers willing to pay for online content, Britain trailed behind other countries’ willingness to invest in digital content. The survey, which polled 5,627 respondents from 22 countries, found that globally 43 per cent of people are willing to pay to access frequently used online content and this figure increases to 59 per cent among the Asia-Pacific countries.

China’s Huawei Accused Of Trade Secret Theft By Motorola ChinaTechNews
Motorola has raised a lawsuit against the Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei in the United States, accusing the Chinese company of trade secret theft. Motorola claimed that during a certain period in the 1990s, many of its former employees offered detailed information about Motorola’s networking structure technologies, including seamless mobile solutions, to Huawei. In an initial suit, filed in 2008, Motorola sued five of its former workers for allegedly sharing trade secrets with Lemko, which was also named in this suit and has a reseller agreement with Huawei. Motorola stated in its latest litigation that an engineer shared information about Motorola’s technologies with Huawei’s founder, Ren Zhengfei. The engineer had reportedly worked for Motorola for about ten years and he resigned in April 2004, before joining Lemko as chief technology officer.

Kings of Leon Concert Shut Down by Pigeons Spinner
The Kings of Leon were playing a concert in St. Louis, Mo. Saturday when they were attacked by an unlikely heckler: pigeons. The birds were hanging out in the rafters of the Verizon Amphitheatre when they proceeded to relieve themselves on bassist Jared Followill, prompting the band to cut the show short after just three songs. According to the band’s management, pigeon poop landed on Followill’s face during the opening song of the night, ‘Closer,’ CNN reports. Followill was hit again on his arms during the next two songs. Though his bass tech was on hand to wipe off the mess, Followill is reportedly a germophobe, and was understandably distracted by the onslaught. “I was hit by pigeons on each of the first three songs,” Followill said. “We had 20 songs on the set list. By the end of the show, I would have been covered from head to toe.”

Web Porn Seeps Through China’s Great Firewall Associated Press
Word leaked out slowly, spread by Web-savvy folks on Twitter: Internet porn that once was blocked by Chinese government censors was now openly available. “Are they no longer cracking down on pornographic websites? A lot of porn sites and forums are accessible,” technology blogger William Long wrote on his feed. Messages like that startled Chinese Web surfers, long accustomed to the authorities’ Internet blockades. The country had been in the midst of highly publicized anti-pornography sweeps, and there had been no announcement of any change in government policy. Yet eight weeks later, the porn sites are still accessible. Still unanswered are questions about whether it’s an official change in policy, a technical glitch or some sort of test by the usually disapproving Chinese Internet police.

BlackBerrys pose ’security risk’ say UAE authorities BBC
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has said that it could move to restrict or monitor BlackBerry mobile phones, as they pose a “national security risk”. The region’s telecoms regulator said “BlackBerry operates beyond the jurisdiction of national legislation” as it stores its data offshore. It said it was concerned that misuse may have “serious social, judicial and national security repercussions”.

Hackers With Enigmatic Motives Vex Companies New York Times
The world of hackers can be roughly divided into three groups. ‘Black hats’ break into corporate computer systems for fun and profit, taking credit card numbers and e-mail addresses to sell and trade with other hackers, while the ‘white hats’ help companies stop their disruptive counterparts. But it is the third group, the ‘gray hats,’ that are the most vexing for companies. These hackers play it any number of ways, which can leave a company vulnerable to lost assets as well as a tarnished reputation as security breaches are exposed. (The terms are a nod to westerns, with the villain wearing a black hat and the hero a white one.) These gray-hat hackers surreptitiously break into corporate computers to find security weaknesses. They then choose whether to notify the company and stay silent until the hole has been patched or embarrass the company by exposing the problem. The debate among all of these groups over the best course of action has never been settled and will be an undercurrent at the Def Con 18 hackers conference starting Friday in Las Vegas.

Mozilla re-patches Firefox 3.6 to fix plug-in problem Computerworld
For the second time in two months, Mozilla on Friday rushed out a fix for Firefox to patch a problem with a browser update issued just days before. Mozilla shipped Firefox 3.6.8 on Friday to patch a single security problem and deal with what Mike Beltzner, director of Firefox, called “a stability problem that affected some pages with embedded plug-ins.”

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