Adeona is the first Open Source system for tracking the location of your lost or stolen laptop that does not rely on a proprietary, central service. This means that you can install Adeona on your laptop and go — there's no need to rely on a single third party. What's more, Adeona addresses a critical privacy goal different from existing commercial offerings. It is privacy-preserving. This means that no one besides the owner (or an agent of the owner's choosing) can use Adeona to track a laptop. Unlike other systems, users of Adeona can rest assured that no one can abuse the system in order to track where they use their laptop.

Adeona is designed to use the Open Source OpenDHT distributed storage service to store location updates sent by a small software client installed on an owner's laptop. The client continually monitors the current location of the laptop, gathering information (such as IP addresses and local network topology) that can be used to identify its current location. The client then uses strong cryptographic mechanisms to not only encrypt the location data, but also ensure that the ciphertexts stored within OpenDHT are anonymous and unlinkable. At the same time, it is easy for an owner to retrieve location information.

adeona.cs.washington.edu

Der spanischen Polizei sind mehr als hundert Kilogramm Kokain abhanden gekommen. Wie ein Sprecher der Polizeigewerkschaft am Freitag bestätigte, wurden die beschlagnahmten Drogen aus einer Polizeistation im südspanischen Sevilla gestohlen und durch Talkumpulver ersetzt.

krone.at

Kem McNair snapped this amazing shot of a spinner shark jumping out of the water behind surfers at New Smyrna Beach, Florida.

cnn.com . via

A vast physics experiment built in a tunnel below the French-Swiss border is fast becoming one of the coolest places in the Universe.

The Large Hadron Collider is entering the final stages of being lowered to a temperature of 1.9 Kelvin (-271C; -456F) - colder than deep space.

The LHC has thousands of magnets which will be maintained in this frigid condition using liquid helium.

bbc.co.uk

The 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing are less than a month away! The folks over in China, ever trying to make sure the games run smoothly, ran a quick rehearsal for the opening night ceremonies on August 11.

bestweekever.tv

Men and women show differences in behaviour because their brains are physically distinct organs, new research suggests. Male and female brains appear to be constructed from markedly different genetic blueprints.

The differences in the circuitry that wires them up and the chemicals that transmit messages inside them are so great as to point to the conclusion that there is not just one kind of human brain, but two, according to recent neurological studies.

independent.co.uk

Mit alten Sachen viel Geld machen: Fans und Sammler haben in New York fast 900.000 Dollar für Erinnerungsstücke des verstorbenen Soulsängers James Brown ausgegeben. Ein Diabetes-Armband wechselte für 32.500 Dollar den Besitzer.

spiegel.de

Harry Houdini is likely the greatest and most well-known magician of all time. While his tricks are not mind-shattering by today's standsards like they were during the early days of vaudeville, he was the master showman of his field. He knew how to promote himself and his efforts are still studied by innumerable magicians of today.

stampsofdistinction.com

Nach Informationen, die ORF.at vorliegen, diskutiert das Innenministerium derzeit mit den Providern über Maßnahmen für eine österreichische "Branchenlösung" zur Internet-Überwachung. Dabei verlangen die Dienste unmittelbaren Zugriff auf die Netzwerke der Anbieter. Auch bei verschlüsselten Skype-Telefonaten kann die Polizei mittlerweile mitlauschen.WEB

Merkwürdig: Seit Tagen bekommt Ihr Rechner immer ein und dieselbe IP-Adresse im ADSL-Netz zugewiesen, obwohl in den Geschäftsbedingungen ihres Providers ausdrücklich von dynamisch vergebenen, also stets wechselnden IP-Adressen die Rede ist.

Wenn dann auch noch Ihr Notebook vom UMTS-Anbieter bei jeder Einwahl ebenso mit stets derselben IP-Adresse versehen wird, dann liegt dass nicht an plötzlich geänderten Geschäftsbedingungen. Mit hoher Wahrscheinlichkeit werden vielmehr Ihre Internet-Zugänge polizeilich überwacht.

futurezone.orf.at

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_packet_inspection . Universeller Einsatz von Deep Packet Inspection . Ärger mit Deep-Packet-Inspection

Bridge (Netzwerk)

There's something so appropriately surreal and disarming about seeing a literary cultural artifact like the autographed typewriter Douglas Adams used to write The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy on a book reseller website and sitting right next to a huge red "Add to Basket" button. But there it is, the original Babelfish that translated Adams' own genius-madness into transmissionable form!

gadgets.boingboing.net