p2pnet World Headlines: Aug 17, 2010
Government Uses Social Networking Sites for More than Investigations EFF
In the midst of recent controversies over Facebook’s privacy settings, it’s easy to forget how much personal information is available from other sources on the Internet. But the government remembers. EFF recently received a number of documents from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) highlighting the government’s ability to scour not only social networks, but record each and every corner of the Internet. These documents were released in the second of a series of government disclosures resulting from EFF’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit in which EFF, with the help of UC Berkeley’s Samuelson Clinic, sought information on the procedures and guidelines employed by government agencies when conducting social network monitoring or investigations.
New Firefox iFrame Bug Bypasses URL Protections Threat Post
There is a newly discovered vulnerability in Mozilla’s flagship Firefox browser that could enable an attacker to trick a user into providing his login credentials for a given site by using an obfuscated URL. In most cases, Firefox will display an alert when a URL has been obfuscated, but by using an iFrame, an attacker can evade this layer of protection, possibly leading to a compromise of the user’s sensitive information. The problem of URL obfuscation is not a new one, and neither is it novel for attackers to use iFrames as an infection vector for visitors to a compromised Web site. Web-based attacks have been employing various forms of URL obfuscation for years now, and iFrames are a favorite of attackers because of their ability to perform malicious actions in the background of a victim’s Web session. The new bug in Firefox could allow an attacker to combine these two techniques to prevent the browser from warning the victim that a URL has been modified, removing a key protection mechanism from the equation.
Overheating iPod causes Tokyo train delays Telegraph
A Tokyo train driver was forced to stop his train for almost 10 minutes in order to investigate a burning smell caused by an overheated iPod.
15,000 Beams of Light: Pens That Write With Light Offer Low-Cost, Rapid Nanofabrication Capabilities Science Daily
One Chicago skyline is dazzling enough. Now imagine 15,000 of them. A Northwestern University research team has done just that — drawing 15,000 identical skylines with tiny beams of light using an innovative nanofabrication technology called beam-pen lithography (BPL). Details of the new method, which could do for nanofabrication what the desktop printer has done for printing and information transfer, will be published Aug. 1 by the journal Nature Nanotechnology. The Northwestern technology offers a means to rapidly and inexpensively make and prototype circuits, optoelectronics and medical diagnostics and promises many other applications in the electronics, photonics and life sciences industries.
North Korea Takes to Twitter and YouTube New York Times
North Korea has taken its propaganda war against South Korea and the United States to a new frontier: YouTube and Twitter. In the last month, North Korea has posted a series of video clips on YouTube brimming with satire and vitriol against leaders in South Korea and the United States. In one clip, it called Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton a ‘minister in a skirt’ and Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates a ‘war maniac,’ while depicting the South Korean defense minister, Kim Tae-young, as a ’servile dog’ that likes to be patted by ‘its American master.’
Minister proposes elite high school classes The Local
Sweden’s education minister Jan Björklund on Tuesday proposed the establishment of elite high school classes to enable select pupils to pursue upper secondary classes and the study of a chosen subject in depth. According to the legislative proposal, which will now be referred for consideration, the government opens the way for high schools (högstadiet) to select pupils for the elite classes with the help of testing. The classes are designed to allow talented pupils a freer hand to study as many upper secondary school (gymnasium) courses as they can, in advance. If the proposal is passed into law the classes will be established from the autumn term 2012.
Massive judgment in World of Warcraft copyright infringement case Hollywood Reporter
A federal court has thrown down the gauntlet against the operator of a private server used to play the MMORP game World of Warcraft, awarding Vivendi subsidiary Blizzard Entertainment a staggering $89 million. The defendant in the case, Scapegaming, earned about $3 million in profits collecting micropayments from users on the unauthorized network. A third-party WoW fansite calls private servers “shady” and a violation of the game’s terms of use, operated to allow players to run around with omnipotent powers and cheat the game environment.
… and identi.ca
August, 2010
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August 18th, 2010 at 1:01 am
Veterans wanted dead, not alive, ombudsman charges
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/848820–veterans-wanted-dead-not-alive-ombudsman-charges?bn=1
“I was told … that it is in the government’s best interests to have soldiers killed overseas rather than wounded because the liability is shorter term,” Stogran said.
I agree with G.W. Harpers government. Fuck the Canadian soldiers who had their legs blown off, the money can be put to better use building a fake lake a few minutes from Lake Ontario.
August 18th, 2010 at 1:09 am
World is losing grip on privacy: watchdog
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/World+losing+grip+privacy+watchdog/3409121/story.html
Next decade will be crucial in protecting personal data
The world has less than a decade to make the protection of personal information and online privacy a priority before the concepts are lost forever, warns Ontario’s information and privacy commissioner.</em
August 18th, 2010 at 1:18 am
Swedish Pirates host Wikileaks
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/139146.html
(Notice I had to find this on an Iranian website since the news wasn’t on Canadian media websites)
Julian Assange’s site Wikileaks will be getting more attention as the Swedish Pirate Party will provide bandwidth and hosting to Wikileaks free of charge as part of its political mission.
thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/114719-swedish-pirate-party-to-host-wikileaks-servers
The Swedish Pirate Party signed an agreement with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange over dinner last Sunday, according to reports Tuesday. The group will take over management and security for several WikiLeaks servers. Party officials said the move will make it more difficult for the U.S. to pressure Sweden into taking action against WikiLeaks.
WikiLeaks said recently it will release a further 15,000 classified U.S. documents about the war in Afghanistan despite increasing criticism from American authorities. Assange was also recently hired as a columnist for the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet, allowing him to apply for protection as a journalist under the country’s constitution.
Also, there is an election there next month….
August 18th, 2010 at 3:36 am
A dispute with EMI has seen Pink Floyd pull all their later material from the web, the group believe we should all hear a whole album and not tracks and honestly its nothing to do with gaining more royalties revenue …honest!
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/17/pink_floyd_no_albums/