Archive for 2011/03/11

How to set up iTunes Home Sharing to stream to your iOS device

Posted: 2011/03/11 in Education / Awareness, File Sharing

http://arstechnica.com/apple/guides/2011/03/how-to-set-up-itunes-home-sharing-to-stream-to-your-ios-device.ars

Son of ACTA: meet the next secret copyright treaty

Posted: 2011/03/11 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, Legislation, Public Policy

The Trans-Pacific Partnership will export the Digital Millennium Copyright Act—plus a few other goodies—around the Pacific. And it’s being drafted and negotiated in total secrecy.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/03/son-of-acta-meet-the-next-secret-copyright-treaty.ars

Because Dragon Age II requires online verification, a banned forum user has found himself unable to play the game for 72 hours

Posted: 2011/03/11 in Education / Awareness

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/03/forum-user-gets-banned-loses-access-to-dragon-age-ii.ars

The Federal Trade Commission has unanimously voted to accept Twitter’s finalized settlement over the social media service’s 2009 security breaches

Posted: 2011/03/11 in Education / Awareness, Network Security, Privacy / Data Protection, Public Policy

http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2011/03/twitter-settles-with-ftc-over-security-breaches.ars

WikiLeaks’ AppelBaum: How TOR Has Been Crippled

Posted: 2011/03/11 in Education / Awareness

http://tinyurl.com/4v2fe28

Previously: http://vrritti.com/?s=appelbaum

Sony: Court Lifts Injunction On PlayStation 3 Consoles

Posted: 2011/03/11 in Education / Awareness, Jurisprudence

http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20110311-700096.html

Highest honor in computing awarded to innovator in machine learning

Posted: 2011/03/11 in Education / Awareness, Tech Evolution

For transformative contributions to the theory of computation, including the theory of probably approximately correct (PAC) learning, the complexity of enumeration and of algebraic computation, and the theory of parallel and distributed computing

http://www.acm.org/news/featured/turing-award-2010

China Reports 68% Jump in Cyber Attacks on Government Websites

Posted: 2011/03/11 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Network Security, Privacy / Data Protection, Public Policy, Stats / reports

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-10/china-reports-68-jump-in-hacking-attacks-on-government-websites-in-2010.html

Symantec has identified suspicious code within a repackaged version of the “Android Market Security Tool”. This package was found on an unregulated third-party Chinese marketplace

Posted: 2011/03/11 in Education / Awareness, Network Security, Privacy / Data Protection

http://www.symantec.com/connect/ko/blogs/androidbgserv-found-fake-google-security-patch

FBI agents heading to Lima in search for clues to Natalee Holloway’s disappearance

Posted: 2011/03/11 in Education / Awareness, Enforcement

FBI agents will meet with two agents of the Peruvian National Police High Technology Crime Division at the Peruvian National Police Headquarters in Lima. During the meeting, they will have access to the computer’s hard drive and will be able to conduct forensic examinations on it

http://insession.blogs.cnn.com/2011/03/10/fbi-agents-heading-to-lima-in-search-for-clues-to-natalee-holloways-disappearance/?iref=allsearch

People were able to use the code-generation website to make about 1 million in Microsoft point gift cards, along with other Xbox items, before Microsoft stopped it

Posted: 2011/03/11 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness

http://gizmodo.com/#!5780636/hackers-just-created-1-million-in-microsoft-points

New Jersey Was About to Sell Confidential Data in an Auction and They Had No Idea

Posted: 2011/03/11 in Education / Awareness, Privacy / Data Protection

http://gizmodo.com/#!5780518/new-jersey-was-about-to-sell-confidential-data-in-an-auction-but-they

Raise Your Hand if You Support the Standardization of Active Shutter 3D Glasses

Posted: 2011/03/11 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Tech Evolution

http://gizmodo.com/#!5780485/raise-your-hand-if-you-support-the-standardization-of-active-shutter-3d-glasses

Great video narrative, titled The Stolen Scream, which details Galai’s story, and the process of watching himself become an anonymous global icon with no control over how his image is used

Posted: 2011/03/11 in Education / Awareness

http://gizmodo.com/#!5780407/the-photograph-that-became-an-unintentional-cultural-icon

See the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake in Color and 3D

Posted: 2011/03/11 in Education / Awareness

http://gizmodo.com/#!5780400/see-photos-of-the-1906-san-francisco-earthquake-in-color-and-3d

Listen to the Man Who Invented ‘Control-Alt-Delete’ Explain Its Origin (And Insult Bill Gates in the Process)

Posted: 2011/03/11 in Education / Awareness

http://gizmodo.com/#!5780279/listen-to-the-man-who-invented-control+alt+delete-explain-its-origin-and-insult-bill-gates-in-the-process

There’s No Doubt Anymore. Apple Has Spooked Nintendo

Posted: 2011/03/11 in Education / Awareness

http://gizmodo.com/#!5780753/theres-no-doubt-anymore-apple-has-spooked-nintendo

Some engineering students at Olin College have built a robot that can crack the combination of any MasterLock brand combination lock

Posted: 2011/03/11 in Education / Awareness

http://gizmodo.com/#!5780847/students-create-a-locksmith-robot

BT Wholesale UK is to introduce a suite of new digital content services, including a live TV over broadband product (TV Connect), alongside its forthcoming BT Content Connect (BTCC/WCC) Content Delivery Network (CDN) for ISPs

Posted: 2011/03/11 in Bandwidth Management, Education / Awareness, Filtering, New Business Models, Tech Evolution

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/story/2011/03/10/bt-wholesale-runs-technical-trials-of-live-broadband-isp-television-service.html

Most ISPs employ Traffic Management or Traffic Shaping as a means to balance the performance of their networks, which allows the majority of customers to avoid being unfairly affected by a minority of heavy users

Posted: 2011/03/11 in Bandwidth Management, Education / Awareness, Stats / reports

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/story/2011/03/10/broadband-isps-thrash-out-voluntary-uk-net-neutrality-commitment-with-the-bsg.html

Major BitTorrent Uploader Used No Anonymity – Bring Out The Straightjacket?

Posted: 2011/03/11 in Copyright, Education / Awareness

http://torrentfreak.com/major-bittorrent-uploader-used-no-anonymity-bring-out-the-straightjacket-110310/

RIAA Not Happy With Rep. Lofgren Calling Out ICE For Web Censorship

Posted: 2011/03/11 in Education / Awareness, Public Policy

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110309/17565213421/riaa-not-happy-with-rep-lofgren-calling-out-ice-web-censorship.shtml

Even WIPO Realizing That Copyright Law May Have Gone Too Far

Posted: 2011/03/11 in Copyright, Education / Awareness

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110310/03032313426/even-wipo-realizing-that-copyright-law-may-have-gone-too-far.shtml

NYTimes: When We Do It, It’s Journalism, When HuffPo Does It, It’s ‘Piracy’

Posted: 2011/03/11 in Education / Awareness

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110310/12551713431/nytimes-when-we-do-it-its-journalism-when-huffpo-does-it-its-piracy.shtml

Google has admitted that it uses whitelists to manually override its search algorithms, more than a year after its European corporate counsel denied the existence of whitelists when defending the company against antitrust complaints in the EU

Posted: 2011/03/11 in Education / Awareness

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/11/google_admits_search_algorithm_whitelists/

BT vs Sky vs Virgin – Top pay-telly providers go head to head

Posted: 2011/03/11 in Education / Awareness, Future Developments?

http://www.reghardware.com/2011/03/10/group_test_pay_tv_sky_bt_virgin/

PlayStation update couples console to cloud and disconnects hackers

Posted: 2011/03/11 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Network Security, Public Policy, Tech Evolution, The Cloud

attempts to plug all penetrable gaps and make hackers rethink their approach

http://www.reghardware.com/2011/03/10/playstation_firmware_update/

Spooks’ secret TEMPEST-busting tech reinvented by US student

Posted: 2011/03/11 in Education / Awareness, Tech Evolution

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/10/through_metal_comms_n_power_reinvented/

Retailer warns anti-pirate 3DS firmware imminent

Posted: 2011/03/11 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness

According to one online retailer, Nintendo is readying a firmware update that will brick the device completely should any dodgy tampering be detected

http://www.reghardware.com/2011/03/10/3ds_update_bricks_the_hacked/

IPTV primer: an overview of the fusion of TV and the Internet

Posted: 2011/03/11 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Tech Evolution

Profound as it may be, the Internet revolution still pales in comparison to that earlier revolution that first brought screens in millions of homes: the TV revolution

http://arstechnica.com/telecom/news/2011/03/iptv-tv-and-the-internet-a-match-made-in-heaven.ars

Behold the Anonymous/HBGary saga e-book: Unmasked

Posted: 2011/03/11 in Education / Awareness

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/03/hbgaryanonymous-special-report.ars

Clearwire has found itself faced with a new lawsuit that accuses the wireless operator of being opaque about its throttling practices while advertising to customers that there are no limits on their connections

Posted: 2011/03/11 in Education / Awareness, Litigation

http://arstechnica.com/telecom/news/2011/03/wimax-throttling-lawsuit-clearwire-cant-deliver-the-goods.ars

Time Warner Cable’s CEO says that heavy data users might not like usage-based billing, but they know in their hearts it’s the right approach to pricing Internet access

Posted: 2011/03/11 in Bandwidth Management, Education / Awareness, New Business Models

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/03/admit-it-data-hogs-you-know-you-should-pay-more.ars