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Social Media As a Weapon In Egypt

Thu, 27 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Slashdot - By Kbahey - Jan. 27 (Comment) - First, I am Egyptian, born and raised there, but living outside of Egypt for the last 2 decades. I was personally affected by the regime there for decades, but that is a story for a future blog post. I have family there, and was in Egypt for all of December 2010.

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Slashdot Developers Story: Oracle Asks OpenOffice Community Members To Leave

Sat, 16 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Slashdot - Oct. 16 (Other) - In an unprecedented move with respect to other forks, Oracle asked the founders of the Document Foundation and LibreOffice to leave the OpenOffice.org Community Council. Apparently there is a conflict of interest, which concerns the Oracle employees.

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Your Rights Online Story | Software Theft a Problem For Actual Thieves, Too

Sun, 03 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Slashdot - By Slashdot Writer - Oct. 03 (Comment) - Pity the criminal mastermind. After all, he's a victim too, reports FoxNews.com. Despite the sophisticated DRM baked into the ZeuS bot to protect it from theft, that's exactly what has happened. 'ZeuS is actually being pirated, so you can get all the versions for free,' said Roel Schouwenberg, senior anti-virus researcher with security software firm Kaspersky Labs.

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Slashdot | Father of Java, James Gosling Unloads

Tue, 28 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

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Man Gets 10 Years For VoIP Hacking

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Slashdot - By Timothy - Sep. 27 (News) - A US court has sentenced a Venezuelan man to 10 years in prison for stealing and then reselling more than 10 million minutes of Internet phone service. Edwin Pena, 27, was convicted in February of masterminding a scheme to hack into more than 15 telecommunications companies and then reroute calls to their networks at no charge. He must also pay more than US$1 million in restitution, and will be deported once his sentence is served.

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Obama Wants Broader Internet Wiretap Authority

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Slashdot - By CmdrTaco - Sep. 27 (Opinion) - The White House plans to deliver a bill to Congress next year that will require internet based communication services that use encryption to be capable of decrypting messages to comply with federal wiretap orders?. The bill will go beyond CALEA to apply to services such as Blackberry email. Even though RIM has stated that it does not currently have an ability to decrypt messages via a master key or back door, the bill may require them to. Regarding this development, James Dempsey of the Center for Democracy and Technology commented on the proposal saying, 'They basically want to turn back the clock and make Internet services function the way that the telephone system used to function.

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Technology Story | Ham Radio Still Growing In the iStuff Age

Tue, 06 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

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Technology Story | The State of the Internet Operating System

Tue, 30 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

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Linux Story | Can Ubuntu Save Online Banking?

Thu, 25 Mar 2010 18:05:32 -0700

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Science Story | ISS To Get Man Cave

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 20:35:14 -0700

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News Story | GM Unveils Networked Electric Mini Cars

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 16:33:21 -0700

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Dutch Commission Deals Blow To Electronic Voting

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 07:39:44 -0700

Slashdot - By hcdejong - Sep. 28 (Opinion) - The Dutch commission that has been investigating the electoral process presented its final report yesterday (Dutch). The conclusions and recommendations are devastating to the current Dutch practice of voting electronically, and to plans for voting via the internet.

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