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Apparently, using Linux is a crime at Boston College

Apparently, using Linux is a crime at Boston CollegeAre "they" sure it was Linux?It could have been DOS. ;-)RE: Apparently, using Linux is a crime at Boston CollegeChris writes another blog where he whines about how linux doesn't get any respect. And there is good reason why it doesn't....

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Boston College, illegal activity

Discussion threads 2009-04-15

iTunes gift cards cracked and selling for 1.3 cents on the dollar

iTunes gift cards cracked and selling for 1.3 cents on the dollarHaha!!Apple security... what a joke. :)I hope this ends with the studios pulling support from iTunesThat would be [b]HILARIOUS!!![/b] :)Apple should stop using M$ softwareand adopt FOSS.Apple paid M$ for the generator and now the hackers are having a...

Tags: Digital music, Spyware, adware & malware, SECURITY, CORPS, Apple Inc., illegal activity, Apple iTunes, iTunes Gift Cards, gift card

Discussion threads 2009-03-11

Swedish police probe site crash

Swedish police probe site crasheet aust Sveewden!Yah, Yah, eeet uzh.Vhat dah ya ekkpect?Yah, yah.every single one of them should be locked up[b]Several hundred people demonstrated in Stockholm on Saturday in support of Pirate Bay.[/b]They are all in support of illegal activities. Lock 'em all up!The hackers should definitely be hunted...

Tags: Hacking, illegal activity, Yah

Discussion threads 2006-06-05

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Copyright associations want enforcement for free

The defender of status quo?What a tired old rant. Use technology and the law to enforce ill advised and ill gotten copyright protection.The internet has revolutionized mankind's ability to communicate and share knowledge and culture, and you want to put it under lock and key to deny mankind that benefit?How...

Tags: Benefits, Federal government, Sales force management, Mickey Mouse, Internet

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

Google's Schmidt: Mimicking Office completely not 'a good use of our time'

Commonsense! Please get rid of MS Office!Please do NOT copy anything MS Office has leavethis lethargic conglomeration of software vendorsMS purchased and created the 2G office suitethat is full of security holes.I hope they go their own route and NO one needsa office suite that cost $400+$700 for a companyseat...

Tags: Microsoft Office, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-22

Mozilla blocks dangerous MS .NET Firefox add-on

RE: Mozilla blocks dangerous MS .NET Firefox add-onIf it had to be blacklisted or not I really don't care now. Implementing code without end user permission is enough reason. We all know MS ways so I am glad Mozilla people used this way and hope they keep doing it in...

Tags: Web browsers, .NET, Linux Distro, Mozilla Corp., Microsoft Corp., MS .NET Firefox add-on, MS .NET, vunerability, plug-in

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

The Best Keylogger 3.52 (Windows)

The Best KeyLogger lets you read and watch everything that happens on your computer while your gone. The Best KeyLogger register all keystrokes typed, including language-specific characters, talk and messages conversations, passwords, e-mails, clipboard, captured screenshots, desktop, and Internet activity. Why do you need a keylogger? Computer activity--By activating The...

Tags: Administration, Microsoft Windows, Computer, Productivity, Internet, E-mail, Online Communications

Software downloads 2009-10-18

The case of the fake money-mules: Inside the URLZone Trojan network

Security EvangelistHi, boy I sure wish people would stop using the word Evangelist in the wrong way. An Evangelist is someone you preaches the Gospel of Jesus Christ, not a secular title at all. Wikipedia recently removed the secular definition and Webster is researching it. Evangelist is from the Greek...

Tags: Spyware, Spyware, adware & malware, Banking, E-business/E-commerce, Viruses and worms, Cyberthreats, Personal finance, SECURITY, network, trojan horse, online banking, bank, virus

Discussion threads 2009-10-06

Google: Books deal is good for everyone

Tell me how you really feel.Considering you didn't really add anything to their bullet points, am I to assume you are Google's press secretary? Would it have not been better to Twitter the URL to the original statements if you aren't the benevolent dictator's press secretary?Press secretary? Hardly.Read the...

Tags: Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-09-10

Obama upholds Bush laptop search policy - with new safeguards

Really at this point, can anybody be surprised to read this, in today's Washington Post: The Obama administration will largely preserve Bush-era procedures allowing the government to search -- without suspicion of wrongdoing -- the contents of a traveler's laptop computer, cellphone or other electronic...

Tags: Policy, Laptop Computer, Obama, Government, Notebooks, Vertical Industries, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-08-28

Let me say it again: Stop sharing music!

They're being bankrupted because they choose......to be bankrupted. I believe both defendants are being offered manageable settlements to this day. Only their "principles" prevent them from doing so.When you don't like the price......of a product, that doesn't give you the right to steal it. Gee, I want a Ferrari...

Tags: Ferrari, RIAA

Discussion threads 2009-08-17

Podcast: Why ZDNet AU loves Linux desktops

Since you ask, noI have long ago left Windows behind when I got tired of running all the spyware/malware/defrag/registry cleaner jobs just to keep it running resonably well. I find that my computer runs better with Linux and i don't have the annoying jobs to run just about every...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux desktop, desktop, podcast, Linux, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-08-14

Gili Privacy Protector 3.2 (Windows)

Gili Privacy Protector is industry-leading privacy protection software designed for individual users. It effectively prevents most illegal operations such as Hackers, Virus, Trojan and Spyware that damage or steal data from your computer. It can safely clean up all traces of your computer activity. It allows you to completely remove...

Tags: Disk, Microsoft Windows, Computer, Gili Soft, Gili Privacy Protector, Productivity, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security

Software downloads 2009-07-29

$1.9m verdict is unconstitutional, Thomas-Rasset says

$1.9m verdict is unconstitutional, Thomas-Rasset saysRasset should just pay the fine because...Jammie Thomas-Rasset should just pay the fine because I have heard that the RIAA is very close to gaining control of the U.S. Justice Dept., and they plan to raise the penalty for infringement of even one song to...

Tags: NOW IT, Jammie Thomas-Rasset, RIAA, CD

Discussion threads 2009-07-06

Modern threats to American liberty

Cash, currency and coins, is a store of value. In the US, "legal tender for all debts, public and private." Carry too much of it though and you are marked for suspicion (per the Wall Street Journal]: Steven Bierfeldt, treasurer for the Campaign for Liberty, a political...

Tags: American Civil Liberties Union, Transportation Security Administration, Government, ATM, Policies And Procedures, Storage, Internet, Networking, Human Resources, Hardware, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2009-07-04

China's porn obsession not just a coverup for political repression

China's porn obsession not just a coverup for political repressionOur children should be so lucky!If our government would protect our children from porn, maybe we wouldn't have may of the problems we have in our society with our children and sex!RE: China's porn obsession not just a coverup for political...

Tags: Chinese Government, porn obsession, repression, political repression, coverup

Discussion threads 2009-06-26

China's porn obsession not just a coverup for political repression

The thing that stinks - to Western noses - about this whole Green Dam story is the idea that China wants to go to all this trouble, to the point of having a serious showdown with the U.S. over it, over porn. I mean, porn ... if people want it,...

Tags: Google Inc., Pornography, Government, Vertical Industries, TVs, Benefits, Healthcare, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Human Resources, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-06-26

Having forced one Irish ISP to adopt three strikes rules, RIAA sues to force others to match policy

Having forced one Irish ISP to adopt three strikes rules, RIAA sues to force others to match policythey are children in a sandboxthe RIAA is a sandbox bullythink of the internet as a sandbox with lot of children playing in it a few hundred million at a timeand the RIAA...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), INTERNET, RIAA

Discussion threads 2009-06-22

Microsoft study debunks profitability of the underground economy

Cybercrime, what cybercrime and millions of dollars in profits?! A newly released paper presented by Cormac Herley and Dinei Florencio at this year's  Workshop on the Economics of Information Security 2009 entitled "Nobody Sells Gold for the Price of Silver: Dishonesty, Uncertainty and the Underground Economy" debunks...

Tags: Web, Credit Card, Seller, Malware, Microsoft Corp., Cybercriminal, Economy, Cybercrime-as-a-Service, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Sales Channel, Viruses And Worms, Financial Services, Security, Sales, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-06-05

FTC shuts down notorious botnet ISP

The Federal Trade Commission FTC has shut down a U.S.-based Internet Service Provider for recruiting, hosting and actively participating in the distribution of spam, child pornography, and other harmful electronic content. Pricewert LLC (also known as 3FN and APS Telecom) was shut down by a district court...

Tags: Internet Service Provider, Server, Bot, FTC, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Viruses And Worms, Internet, Security, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2009-06-04